Lou Vivian

Professor Lou is a Professor at the Department of Social Work & Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. She is also the Director of Sau Po Centre on Ageing, Director of Master of Social Sciences (Gerontology) The University of Hong Kong. Prof. Lou has studied widely on family caregiving, active ageing, and their health impacts. Examining Chinese family caregivers’ mental health and financial impacts were pioneer studies that generated high impact publications. Recently, Prof. Lou’s study extended to examining positive and/or resilient capacity of the family caregiving in Chinese context including studying secondary caregivers, social support, roles of domestic helper, effective intervention strategies, and gerontechnology and smart ageing. Prof. Lou also pioneered three mobile applications targeting volunteers, social workers, dementia caregivers, and stroke families respectively. She is now teaching social gerontology, clinical gerontology, and human development for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is also a Member of Elderly Commission, Community Investment and Inclusion Fund, Statistics Advisory Board, Elderly Academy Development Foundation, and Senior Police Force Central Advisory Board.