Job title：
Research Scientist
Other affiliations (2)：
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
Visiting Researcher
Institute for Health Economics and Policy, Association for Health Economics Research and Social Insurance and Welfare
Research Department
Guest Researcher
Research field (3)：
Social welfare
, Home economics, lifestyle science
, Hygiene and public health (non-laboratory)
Research keywords (4)：
Health Service Research
, Environmental Gerontology
, Physical Therapy
, Rehabilitation
Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：
2023 - 2028 Transitional care system for patients living at home after using emergency medical services
2022 - 2026 Establishing an Optimization Method for Home Care Plans Based on Prediction of Activities of Daily Living
2022 - 2026 Housing environment maximizing functional ability and subjective well-being of older people using long-term care
2020 - 2024 Developing a prediction model of readmission and strategy for preventing readmission by using big medical claim data
2021 - 2023 Research for linked medical/long-term care claims data and housing adaptations application forms for building a inter-professional education system of housing adaptations
2021 - 2022 The Effect of maintaining long-term care needs levels for older adults by implementing housing adaptations: Examination of outcome indicators for optimizing housing adaptation services in medical and long-term care policies
2019 - 2021 Development of Japanese housing accessibility assessment tool to maximize functional ability of older people: Classification of ICF and validation study.
2018 - 2019 Maximizing functional ability of older people using long-term care: adapting an existing assessment tool to a new context
2017 - 2018 Preliminary study to develop the Housing Enabler assessment tool for housing adaptations in Japan -Comparison between Sweden and Japan-.
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Papers (33)：
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito, Björn Slaug, Tomonori Sano, Miki Tajima, Sakiko Itoh, Kazuaki Uda, Takashi Yamanaka, Susanne Iwarsson. Assessing housing accessibility issues for older adults in Japan: an expert panel approach to cross-cultural adaptation and content validity of the Japanese housing enabler. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 2024
Reina Taguchi, Shota Hamada, Nobuaki Michihata, Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito, Satomi Kitamura, Tomoki Ishikawa, Masao Iwagami. Factors associated with the introduction of visiting-pharmacist services in older adults in Japan: A nested case-control study. Geriatrics & gerontology international. 2024. 24. 4. 344-351
Shin J Liau, Shota Hamada, Agathe D Jadczak, Nobuo Sakata, Samanta Lalic, Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito, Reina Taguchi, Renuka Visvanathan, J Simon Bell. Symptomatic and preventive medication use according to age and frailty in Australian and Japanese nursing homes. Aging clinical and experimental research. 2023
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito, Shota Hamada, Masao Iwagami, Ayako Ninomiya, Tomoaki Ishibashi. Association of housing adaptation services with the prevention of care needs level deterioration for older adults with frailty in Japan: a retrospective cohort study. BMC health services research. 2023. 23. 1. 916-916
Seigo Mitsutake, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Shohei Yano, Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito, Kazuaki Uda, Kenji Toba, Hideki Ito. All-Cause Readmission or Potentially Avoidable Readmission: Which Is More Predictable Using Frailty, Comorbidities, and ADL?. Innovation in aging. 2023. 7. 5. igad043
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito. Do housing adaptation services prevent deterioration of care needs levels for older adults with minor care needs?. Dia News. 2024. 113. 8-11
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito. Promoting the Use of Open Data and Research on the Elderly in the U.S. ~National Health & Aging Trends Study (NHATS)~. Monthly IHEP. 2024. 2023/24年 12/1月号. 23-28
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito. Housing Structure and Psychological Well-being of Older People with Care Needs. Japanese Journal of Geritaric Psychiatry. 2023. 34. 656-662
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito. Housing Environment Development in a Community-based Comprehensive Care System: Three Perspectives on Supporting Older People with care needs. Orangecross. 2023. 春号. 11-14
Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito. A new trial to link medical claims, long-term care claims, and a form for home modification reason. Monthly IHEP. 2022. 9月号. 11-14
Association between Use of Housing Adaptation Services and Nursing Home Admission in the Long-Term Care Insurance System: A Retrospective Cohort Study
(The 66th Annual Meeting of the Japan Geriatrics Society 2024)
Living environments and health in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review
(Nordic Conference of Ageing 2024)
Twenty-year trends in housing environment arrangements for older adults utilizing long-term care insurance in one city in the Tokyo metropolitan area
(IAGG-AOR2023 2023)
Assessing housing accessibility issues for older adults in Japan: Cross-cultural adaptation and aspects of validity of the Japanese Housing Enabler
(IAGG-AOR2023 2023)
2013/05 - 2014/03 Institute of Gerontology, The University of Tokyo Technical Research Specialist
2007/04 - 2011/03 Kameda Medical Center Department of Rehabilitation Physical Therapist
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Awards (1)：
2017/10 - Japanese Society of Public Health Best Poster Award Effect of cognitive decline for Long-term care level for older people living in suburban area:
Association Membership(s) (7)：
Japan Association of Medical Informatics
, The Gerontological Society of America
, SOCIETY FOR APPLIED GERONTOLOGY-JAPAN
, JAPAN SOCIO-GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY
, THE JAPAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY
, JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
, JAPANESE PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION
