Aging & Gerontology

Biography

Hiromi Watanabe is Professor of Faculty of Human Life Design at Toyo University in Japan. She has 25 years teaching experience, holds a Doctoral Degree of Social Welfare, and is a registered nurse and certified care worker. As professor, her specialized field is elderly care and she runs a four-year long care work diploma program which prepares students to become care workers certified by the Japanese government.Her main research interests involve exploring 24-hour home care. As visiting professor at VIA University of College in Denmark during six months in 2013, she carried out research into the Danish home care system. In 2016 and 2018 she also joined the International Summer School on Integrated Care in the UK, and was a local committee member at the Aging & Society 2018: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference in Japan.