Aging and Life Course Lab: https://alclab.ea.sinica.edu.tw/home

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EDUCATION

• 2009 ~ 2013 | Ph.D. in Aging Studies (Gerontology), University of South Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• March, 2026 ~ Current | Associate Editor, Sleep Health: Journal of the National Sleep Foundation
• June 16, 2025- current | Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• February 2025 ~ June 15 2025 | Associate Professor, Global Health and Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University
• August 2020 ~January 2025 | Assistant Professor, Global Health and Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University
• March 2018 ~ March 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• June 2015 ~ June 2017 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
• August 2014 ~ May 2015 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Basic and Social Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY, USA

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Sleep health
• Social determinant of health
• Disability and physical performance
• The health and occupational well-being of older workers

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• 2026 Research Travel Grant, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (NTD $507,200; 115-2918-I-001-003; Role: PI); Project: Utilizing wearable devices to study the relationship between objective sleep health and social frailty among community—dwelling older adults.
• 2025-2026 Senior Fulbright Research Grant (USD$ 35,000); Project: Utilizing objective sleep measures to study and promote healthy aging; Host: Orfeu M. Buxton, Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• 2023-2026 Research Grant, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (NTD $ 4,730,514; 112-2314-B-001-016-MY3; Role: PI); Project: Multidimensional sleep health and frailty among older adults: Facilitators and barriers of good sleep health and the Mandarin RU-SATED validation
• 2023-2026 Research Grant, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (NTD $ 4,730,514; 112-2314-B-001-016-MY3; Role: Co-PI); Project: Exploring the Heterogeneity of Healthy Aging Trajectories amongOlder Adults in Taiwan: The Role of Social and Behavioral Determinants
• 2022-2023 Research Grant, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (NTD $1,070,000; 111-2314-B-038-054; Role: PI); Project: The longitudinal relationships between multidimensional sleep health and frailty among community-dwelling older adults: Evidence from older adults in Taiwan and the United States

PUBLICATIONS

Cho, E., Chen, T. Y., & Shen, W. (2026). Bouncing Back, Holding Steady, or Wiser for Wear? Uncovering and Predicting Trajectories of Work–Eldercare Conflict and Enrichment during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Chen, T. Y., Hsu, K.-W., Tsai, F.-J., Bai, C.-H., Hsu, H.-C., Chen, Y.-H., & Kuan, Y.-C. (2025). Longitudinal relationships between persistent moderate-to-severe pain and poor multidimensional sleep health with frailty among community-dwelling older adults. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus, 100224. doi: 10.1016/j.aggp.2025.100224

Domingo, D. G. C., Chen, T. Y., Cruz, G. T., Mgabhi, P. S., Lim, K. L., Mandiwa, C., Saito Y. (2025). Food insecurity and sleep deficiency among older Filipinos: The mediating roles of depressive symptoms and frailty phenotypes. Journal of Global Health. ISSN: 2047-2978; SSCI/SCI

Mandiwa, C., Chen, T. Y., Cruz, G., Vu, C. N., & Saito, Y. (2025). The associations of sleep deficiency and frailty with multimorbidity among community-dwelling older adults in the Philippines and Viet Nam. Psychology, Health & Medicine. ISSN: 1354-8506; SSCI/SCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., & Buxton, O. M. (2025). Late-life disability may increase with more frequent insomnia symptoms and sleep medications use over time. Sleep. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsaf098; ISSN: 2352-7218; SCI

Magabhi, P. S., Chen, T. Y., Cruz, G., Vu, C. N., & Saito, Y. (2024). Falls among community-dwelling older Adults in the Philippines and Viet Nam: Results from nationally representative samples. Injury, 111336; doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2024.111336; ISSN: 0020-1383; SCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., Hsu, K-W., Buxton, M. O. (2024). Poor sleep health predicts the onset of a fear of falling among community-dwelling older adults. Sleep Health, 10:137-143. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.10.007; ISSN: 2352-7218; SCI

Chen, T. Y., Rajan S. I., & Saito, Y. (2023). Nutritional status predicts injurious falls among community-dwelling older adults: Does sex matter? Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi: 10.1177/07334648231184950; ISSN: 0733-4648; SSCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., & Buxton, O. M. (2022). Multidimensional sleep health is associated with physical frailty in a national sample of Taiwanese community-dwelling older adults: Sex matters. Sleep Health. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2022.05.003. ISSN: 2352-7218; SCI

Cho, E., Chen, T. Y., Cheng, G., & Ho, R. M-H. (2022). Work-family balance self-efficacy and work-family balance during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of working caregivers of older adults. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. doi:10.1037/ocp0000321 ISSN: 1076-8998; SSCI

Chen, T. Y., & Janke, M. C. (2022). Change in leisure participation among older adults after falling. Leisure Sciences. doi: 10.1080/01490400.2018.1536568; ISSN: 0149-0400; SSCI

Chen, T. Y. & Kim, G. Y. (2021). Racial/ethnic differences in the longitudinal effects of fear of falling on falls: Results from the NHATS. Gerontology. ISSN: 0304-324X; SCI

Chen, T. Y., & Saito, Y. (2021). Longitudinal effects of nocturnal insomnia symptom subtypes and nonrestorative sleep on the incidence of depression among community-dwelling older adults: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Sleep Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.01.003; ISSN: 1389-9457; SCI

Cho, E., Chen, T. Y., & Janke, M. C. (2021). A 2-year longitudinal relationship between work-family conflict and health among older workers: Can gardening help? Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi: 10.1177/0733464820934678; ISSN: 0733-4648; SSCI

Cho, E., & Chen, T. Y. (2020). The bi-directional relationships between effort-reward imbalance and sleep problems among older workers. Sleep Health, 6, 299-305. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.01.008; ISSN: 2352-7218

Chen, T. Y., Chan, A., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Herr, M., Fors, S., Jeune, B., Herrmann, F. R., Robine, J-M., Yasutuki, G., Saito, Y., & the 5-COOP group (2020). Prevalence and correlates of falls among centenarians: The results from the Five Country Oldest Old Project (5-COOP). The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Medical Sciences, 75, 974-979; ISSN: 1079-5006; SSCI/SCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., Gray, M., Saito, Y., Chan A., & Buxton, O. M. (2019). Longitudinal relationship between sleep deficiency and pain symptoms among community-dwelling older adults in Japan and Singapore. Sleep, 42, zsy219. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsy219; ISSN: 0161-8105; SCI

Chen, T. Y., Edwards, J. D., & Janke, M. C. (2019). Examination of the psychometric properties of the Geriatric Fear of Falling Measure among community-dwelling older adults in the US. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 38, 791-804. doi: 10.1177/0733464817716969. ISSN: 0733-4648; SSCI

Ang, S., & Chen, T. Y. (2019). Going online to stay connected: Online social participation buffers the relationship between pain and depression. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences, 74, 1020-1031. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby109. ISSN: 1079-5014; SSCI

Cho, E. & Chen, T. Y. (2018). The effects of work-family experiences on health among older workers. Psychology and Aging, 33, 993-1006. doi: 10.1037/pag0000293. ISSN: 0882-7974; SSCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., & Buxton, O. M. (2017). A greater extent of insomnia symptoms and physician-recommended sleep medication use predict fall risk in community-dwelling older adults. Sleep, 40, zsx142. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsx142. ISSN: 0161-8105; SCI