Understanding Older Adults’ Usage of Community Green Spaces in Taipei, Taiwan

First-Encounter Talks between Younger and Older Adults in Taiwan: A Conversation Analysis Approach

Outside of Western contexts, natural-conversation-based research on intergenerational communication is relatively rare. To help redress this imbalance, this paper explores the conversational styles of first-encounter talks between five pairs of college students and older adults in Taiwan, and infers the interactional norms that underlie them. It is found that younger Taiwanese adults tend to ex...

Current Status of Long-term Care in Taiwan: Transition of Long-term Care Plan From 1.0 to 2.0

Older Adults as Discursively Constructed in Taiwanese Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine discursive representations of older people in Taiwanese newspapers. A total of 926 references to older people were sampled from 62 articles published in four Taiwanese newspapers from January to August 2013. The findings suggest that, older people were frequently allocated roles suggestive of dependency. Those portrayed in line with the pos...

TSH Elevation and Chronic Kidney Disease in Elderly Adults

Mei-Hsing Chuang1,2, Yao-Min Hung2,3 and Pesus Chou2* 1Department of Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan 2Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan 3Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan *Corresponding author: Mei-Hsing Chuang, Taipei City H...

Activating natural killer (NK) cytotoxicity of canine CD5−CD21− cells requires low surface CD5 density NK cells

Natural killer (NK) cells play a crucial role in regulating immune functions. Few studies have characterized canine NK cells. We previously demonstrated that canine peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) with a low surface CD5 density (CD5lo) are considered a critical NK population. Natural killer cells in most mammals do not express T-cell markers, but canine CD5lo cells express surface molecules...