Lily Haopu Ren

B.Sc. in Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012
Master of Health in Leadership and Policy in Seniors Care, University of British Columbia, 2017

After I graduated from the Master of Health Leadership and Policy (MHLP) program in 2017, I received academic training in nursing, sociology, and public health. In 2022, I joined Dr. Lillian Hung’s Innovation in Dementia and Aging (IDEA) Lab. Since then, I have been the knowledge translation lead for the lab and project manager for different types of technology implementation in dementia care. My knowledge and research experiences in Patient-Oriented Research (POR) have been significantly strengthened.

Supervised by Dr. Lillian Hung at the School of Nursing and Dr. Ben Mortenson at Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, I am interested in hospital staff engagement in technology implementation in dementia care delivery for older adults with dementia.

President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, University of British Columbia
Travel Grant for the 52nd Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting, the Canadian Association on Gerontology Canadian Association on Gerontology
Edwin S.H. Leong Healthy Aging Trainee Travel Stipend
Graduate Student Travel Award, University of British Columbia

staff engagement; technology implementation; dementia; hospital; care delivery;

Telepresence Robots in Long-Term Care Settings in British Columbia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analyzing the Experiences of Residents and Family Members
Facilitators and Barriers to Using Virtual Reality and its Impact on Social Engagement in Aged Care Settings: A Scoping Review
Participatory development of a framework to actively involve people living with dementia and those from their social network, and healthcare professionals in conducting a systematic review: the DECIDE-SR protocol
Living with A Robot at Home: The Complexity of Living with Assistive Robots Labrador And Double In Everyday Life
The Perspective of Nurses and Healthcare Providers on the use of Television Videos with People with Moderate to Severe Dementia