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Shuangzhou Chen, a PhD student from the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, has won the Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Collaborative Research Award 2020 for a project targeting dementia caregivers. The awarded project is titled ‘Making sense of work-life-care balance and well-being among dementia caregivers during the period of pandemic: An application of ecological momentary assessment using digital device’. 

Caregivers of dementia patients suffer from both physical problems and psychological symptoms due to the cognitive decline, communicative difficulties, and behavioral problems of their care recipients living with dementia. The current project mainly aims to investigate the hedonic and social well-being of adult-child working dementia caregivers as well as to explore the profiles of caregivers who make choices on the meaning-making of care, work, and/or life. The method of ecological momentary assessment will be adopted to collect data via personal digital devices for investigating participants’ momentary well-being and mental states within their caregiving experience during the pandemic. Collaborating with doctoral students in various disciplines from other U21 member universities – namely Fudan University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Maryland, and the University of Queensland – the project also aims to establish an empirical and theoretical foundation for developing a more integrative assessment and intervention tool built for digital devices.