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Senior Research Fellow

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CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

Department of Medicine & Therapeutics,
Faculty of Medicine, CUHK

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Dr. Ruby HY YU 余浩欣

Dr Ruby Yu joined CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing in 2014. She is currently co-leading three key initiatives including Jockey Club Community eHealth Care Project, Jockey Club "Shining Journey 50+" Women Wellness Programme, and Jockey Club Cadenza e-Tools for Elder Care, all of which were designed to facilitate self-management and implementation of integrated care. In collaboration with several academic partners and experts of the World Health Organization (WHO), she leads research on validating the WHO’s concept of healthy ageing, mainly intrinsic capacity in Chinese populations. She also leads the effort to examine trajectories of intrinsic capacity, determinants (e.g., socioeconomic status) and consequences (e.g., frailty and disability) of declines in intrinsic capacity, operationalization of vitality (a domain of intrinsic capacity), interventions for optimizing intrinsic capacity, as well as the readiness of the local community in implementing the WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) approach.

• Yu R, Lai D, Leung G, Tong C, Woo J. Using cardiorespiratory fitness to operationalize vitality: a path analysis on the hierarchical structure of intrinsic capacity. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2024;28(8):100300
• Yu R, Lai D, Leung G, Tam LY, Cheng C, Kong S, Tong C, Woo J. Transitions in intrinsic capacity among community-dwelling older people and their associated factors: a multistate modelling analysis. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2024;28(7): 100273
• Yu R, Lai D, Leung G, Tam LY, Cheng C, Kong S, Tong C, Lu Z, Leung JCS, Chan A, Kwok T, Woo J. Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the Cantonese version of SarQoL in Hong Kong’s older population: an interviewer-administered questionnaire for assessing Sarcopenia-Specific Quality of Life in fieldwork practice. Clinical Interventions in Aging. 2023;18:1851-1861
• Yu R, Lai D, Leung G, Tam LY, Cheng C, Kong S, Tong C, Cheung B, Woo J. Moving towards the ICOPE Approach: Evaluation of community-based intervention activities on improving intrinsic capacity. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2023;27(11):1028-1037
• Yu R, Lai D, Leung G, Tong C, Yuen S, Woo J. A dyadic cooking-based intervention for improving subjective health and well-being of older adults with subjective cognitive decline and their caregivers: A randomized controlled trial. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2023;27(10):824-832
• Yu R, Leung G, Lai D, Tong C, Tam LY, Cheng C, Kong S, Woo J. Assessing the readiness for implementing the World Health Organization's ICOPE approach in Hong Kong: Perspectives from social care and policy stakeholders. Journal of Frailty & Aging. 2023;12(2):126-133
• Yu R, Lai D, Leung G, Woo J. Trajectories of intrinsic capacity: Determinants and associations with disability. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2023;27(3):174-181
• Yu R, Lai ETC, Leung G, Ho SC, Woo J. Intrinsic capacity and 10-year mortality: Findings from a cohort of older people. Experimental Gerontology. 2022;167:111926
• Yu R, Leung G, Leung J, Cheng C, Kong S, Tam LY, Woo J. Prevalence and distribution of intrinsic capacity and its associations with health outcomes in older people: The Jockey Club Community eHealth Care Project in Hong Kong. Journal of Frailty & Aging. 2022;11(3):202-308
• Yu R, Leung J, Leung G, Woo J. Towards healthy ageing: Using the concept of intrinsic capacity in frailty prevention. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2022;26(1):30-36
• Woo J, Yu R, Leung G, Chiu C, Hui A, Ho F. An integrated model of community care for older adults: design, feasibility and evaluation of impact and sustainability. Aging Medicine and Healthcare. 2021;12(3):105-113
• Yu R, Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan J, Leung J, Lu Z, Kwok T, Woo J. Validation of the construct of intrinsic capacity in a longitudinal Chinese cohort. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2021;25(6):808-815
• Yu R, Leung G, Woo J. Randomized controlled trial on the effects of a combined intervention of computerized cognitive training preceded by physical exercise for improving frailty status and cognitive function in older adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(4):1396
• Yu R, Tong C, Leung G, Woo J. Assessment of the validity and acceptability of the online FRAIL scale in identifying frailty among older people in community settings. Maturitas. 2021;145:18-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.12.003
• Woo J, Yu R. Care is needed to apply hypertension guidelines to community-living older adults aged 60 years and over. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2020;24:2014-2016. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.007
• Yu R, Tong C, Woo J. Effect of an integrated care model for pre-frail and frail older people living in community. Age and Ageing. 2020,49(6):1048-1055. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa087
• Yu R, So MC, Ho F, Tong C, Woo J. Older adults' perspective towards participation in a multicomponent frailty prevention program: a qualitative study. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-020-1369-5
• Yu R, Tong C, Ho F, Woo J. Effects of a multicomponent frailty prevention program in pre-frail community-dwelling older persons: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2020;21(2):294.e1-294.e10 doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2019.08.024
• Yu R, Leung J, Lum CM, Auyeung TW, Lee J, Woo J. A comparison of health expectancies over 10 years: implications for elderly service needs in Hong Kong. International Journal of Public Health. 2019:64(5):731-742. doi: 10.1007/s00038-019-01240-1
• Yu R, Woo J. Cognitive assessment of older people: Do sensory function and frailty matter? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019;16:662. doi:10.3390/ijerph16040662
• Woo J, Tong C, Yu R. Chewing difficulty should be included as a geriatric syndrome. Nutrients. 2018,10(12):1997
• Woo J, Yu R, Tsoi K, Meng H. Variability in repeated blood pressure measurements as a marker of frailty. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. 2018, 22(9): 1122-1127
• Woo J, Yu R, Leung J. Predictive ability of individual items of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) scale compared with the summative score. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2018 May;19(5):444-449. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.11.006. Epub 2017 Dec 16
• Yu R, Morley JE, Kwok T, Leung J, Cheung O, Woo J. The effects of combinations of cognitive impairment and pre-frailty on adverse outcomes from a prospective community-based cohort study of older Chinese people. Frontiers in Medicine. 2018 Mar 6;5:50. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00050. eCollection 2018
• Yu R, Wong M, Chong KC, Chang B, Lum CM, Auyeung TW, Lee J, Lee R, Woo J. Trajectories of frailty among Chinese older people in Hong Kong between 2001 and 2012: an age-period-cohort analysis. Age and Ageing. 2018;47(2):254-261. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afx170
• Yu R, Wu WC, Leung J, Hu SC, Woo J. Frailty and its contributory factors in older adults: A comparison of two Asian regions (Hong Kong and Taiwan) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2017;14:1096. doi:10.3390/ijerph14101096
• Woo J, Yu R, Leung J. A 3-Item SARC-F? Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2018;19(3):223-228. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.09.006. Epud 2017 Nov 1
• Yu R, Ong S, Cheung O, Leung J, Woo J. Reference values of grip strength, prevalence of low grip strength, and factors affecting grip strength values in Chinese adults. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2017;18:551.e9-e551.e16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2017.03.006
• Yu R, Wong M, Chang B, Lai X, Lum CM, Auyeung TW, Lee J, Tsoi K, Lee R, Woo J. Trends in activities of daily living disability in a large sample of community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Hong Kong: an age-period-cohort analysis. BMJ Open 2016;6:e013259. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013259
• Yu R, Leung J, Woo J. Sarcopenia combined with FRAX probabilities improves fracture risk prediction in older Chinese men. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2014;15(12):918-923. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.07.011
• Yu R, Leung J, Woo J. Incremental predictive value of sarcopenia for incident fracture in an elderly Chinese cohort: Results from MrOs (Hong Kong). Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2014;15(8):551-558. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.02.005
• Yu R, Wong M, Leung J, Lee J, Auyeung TW, Woo J. Incidence, reversibility, risk factors and the protective effect of high body mass index against sarcopenia in community-dwelling older Chinese adults. Geriatrics & Gerontology International. 2014;14(1):15-28. doi: 10.1111/ggi.12220 Erratum in Geriatrics & Gerontology International. 2014;14(3):730
• Yu R, Chau PH, McGhee SM, Cheung WL, Chan KC, Cheung SH, Woo J. Trends in prevalence and mortality of dementia in elderly Hong Kong population: projections, disease burden, and implications for long-term care. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2012;406852. doi: 10.1155/2012/406852

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