Yao Nengliang, Professor from the School of Medical Care Management, Shandong University and member of Home Care Teaching and Research Team of SDU was awarded the Dan Gilden Creative Investigator Award by the American Academy of Home Care Medicine in Chicago, USA on October 18. Yao is the third scholar to win the prize since its founding.

With the mission of establishing Home Care Medicine and Home Care System in China, the Home Care Teaching and Research Team of SDU promotes Home Care in China and around the world, endeavoring to enable the elderly to receive "holistic" care in their later years. The team led the first Home and Old-age Care Forum in China, which invited experts of home care from the United States, Japan and Taiwan and held four sessions of international home care training in Jinan, Tai 'an, Shanghai and Nanning. The first International Home Care Forum organized and hosted by Professor Yao Nengliang was held at the 2019 annual meeting of the Geriatrics Society of America in November, which was highly praised by James Applyby, CEO of the Geriatrics Society of America.

Translated by: Song Jinxu

Edited by: Sun Yangyang, Xie Tingting