Hiroshige Matsumoto
With work experience as a public health nurse at a long-term community care center, Dr. Hiroshige Matsumoto works with his research colleagues towards the aim of developing age-friendly, dementia-friendly communities.
Dr. Matsumoto has conducted qualitative or ethnographic research, community-based participatory research (CBPR), scoping reviews, analysis of large-scale receipt data, and spatial analysis using Geographic Information System (GIS). HE has also developed and evaluated training programs, including e-learning modules, through randomized controlled intervention studies. Inspired by the Bystander Intervention Model, he is developing program theories for the promotion of helping behavior from public contact staff, including store clerks, toward customers with dementia. He is also interested in social participation in later life and care management.
Beyond his research projects, Dr. Matsumoto is involved in the education of undergraduate students in home-care nursing and of graduate students in public health nursing.