ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2010-2013	Doctor of Philosophy	The University of Hong Kong
2008-2010	Master of Philosophy in Social work	The University of Sydney
2003-2007	Bachelor of Social Work	Wuhan University of Technology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

2018 – date	Associate Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Renmin University of China
2013 – 2018	Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Renmin University of China

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & HONORS

2022-date	Associate department dean, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Renmin University of China
2022-date	Assistant editor, Aging & Mental Health
2020-date	Editorial board member of Aging & Mental Health, BMC Geriatrics, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Research On Aging, and Health & Social Care in the Community.
2015 – date	Secretary General, China Association for Social Work Education - Gerontological Social Work Committee
2013 – date	Honorary Research Fellow, Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social capital and healthy aging

Aging and the life course

Long-term care

Frail older adults and family caregiving

Age-friendly communities

Intergenerational relationships

Program evaluation

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

In English

1. Lu, N., & Zhang, J. (2022). A multiple-group analysis of social capital and loneliness among community-dwelling older adults in urban China during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aging & Mental Health, 1-9. doi:10.1080/13607863.2022.2116394

2. Mao, S., Zeng, Y., & Lu, N. (2022). Research on Attitudes towards Ageing, Social Participation and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in China. The British Journal of Social Work. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcac118

3. Sun, Q., Jiang, N., Lu, N., & Lou, V. W. Q. (2022). Bidirectional relationship between cognitive function and loss hierarchy of activities of daily living among older adults with disabilities in urban China: A cross-lagged analysis. BMJ Open, 12(9), e057211. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057211

4. Yan, Y., Cai, L., & Lu, N. (2022). Childhood experiences and frailty trajectory among middle-aged and older adults in China. European Journal of Ageing, 19(4), 1601-1615. doi:10.1007/s10433-022-00746-7

5. Zeng, Y., Mao, S., Lu, N., & Chen, M. (2023). Activity patterns and loneliness in later life: The mediating effects of social support and attitudes toward aging. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 66(2), 303-318. doi:10.1080/01634372.2022.2103761

6. Zhang, J., & Lu, N. (2022). How does neighbourhood environment influence loneliness in later life in Urban China? The role of financial status. Health & Social Care in The Community. doi:10.1111/hsc.13950

7. Lu, N., & Lou, V. W. Q. (2022). Care-giving burden and life satisfaction among family care-givers of disabled older adults in China: The moderator role of care-giver wisdom. Ageing & Society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000496

8. Lu, N., & Wu, B. (2022). Perceived neighborhood environment, social capital and life satisfaction among older adults in Shanghai, China. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 6686. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10742-7

9. Mao, S., Lou, V. W. Q., & Lu, N.* (2022). Perceptions of neighborhood environment and loneliness among older Chinese adults: The mediator role of cognitive and structural social capital. Aging & Mental Health, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2053500

10. Sun, Q., Wang, Y., Lu, N., & Lyu, S. (2022). Intergenerational support and depressive symptoms among older adults in rural China: The moderating roles of age, living alone, and chronic diseases. BMC Geriatrics, 22(1), 83. doi:10.1186/s12877-021-02738-1

11. Zhang, J., Tian, Y., & Lu, N. (2021). Examination of the moderating role of household income in the association between cognitive social capital and subjective well-being among rural older adults in Northeast China. Research On Aging, 0(0), 1-10. doi:10.1177/01640275211029014

12. Lu, N., Wu, B.*, Pei, Y. L., & Peng, C. (2021). Social capital, perceived neighborhood environment, and depressive symptoms among older adults in rural China: The role of self-rated health. International Psychogeriatrics.

13. Lu, N., & Lou, V. W. Q.* (2021). Community social capital and cognitive function among older adults in rural north-east China: The moderator role of income. Health and Social Care in the Community, 0(0), 1-10. doi:10.1111/hsc.13395

14. Lu, N., Sun, Q., Jiang, N., & Lou, V. W. Q.* (2021). Does wisdom moderate the relationship between burden and depressive symptoms among family caregivers of disabled older adults in China? A multiple-group path analysis. Aging & Mental Health, 1-8. doi:10.1080/13607863.2021.1935454

15. Zhang, J., & Lu, N.* (2021). The association between childhood conditions and heart disease among middle-aged and older population in China: A life course perspective. BMC Geriatrics, 21(1), 184. doi:10.1186/s12877-021-02134-9

16. Chen, J.*, Zhou, X., & Lu, N. (2021). Providing instrumental support to older parents of multi-child families in China: Are there different within-family patterns? Ageing and society, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0144686X21000283

17. Peng, C., Burr, J. A., Yang, D., & Lu, N.* (2021). Early child–parent relationship quality and cognitive function in older rural Chinese adults: The mediating role of educational attainment. Journal of Aging and Health. doi:10.1177/0898264321996562

18. Xiao, C., Mao, S.*, Jia, S., & Lu, N. (2021). Research on family relationship and cognitive function among older Hispanic Americans: Empirical evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. doi:10.1177/07399863211025419

19. Sun, Q., & Lu, N.* (2020). Social capital and mental health among older adults living in urban China in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21). doi:10.3390/ijerph17217947

20. Lu, N., Wu, B.*, & Pei, Y. L. (2020). Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship between Cognitive Function and Edentulism in Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China. Age and ageing. 50(3), 809-814. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa173

21. Lu, N., Spencer, M., Sun, Q., & Lou, V. W. Q.* (2020). Family social capital and life satisfaction among older adults living alone in urban China: The moderating role of functional health. Aging & Mental Health, 1-8. doi:10.1080/13607863.2019.1709155

22. Lu, N., Wu, B.*, Jiang, N., & Dong, T. (2020). Association between childhood conditions and arthritis among middle-aged and older adults in China: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Ageing and society, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0144686X20000343

23. Jiang, N., Lu, N., Sun, Q., & Lou, V. W. Q.* (2020). Positive and negative experiences and life satisfaction among spousal caregivers for frail older adults in urban China: A parallel process model. Age and ageing, 49(4), 622-627. doi:10.1093/ageing/afaa032

24. Peng, C., Burr, J. A.*, Kim, K., & Lu, N. (2020). Home and community-based service utilization among older adults in urban China:The role of social capital. Journal of Gerontological Social Work. doi:10.1080/01634372.2020.1787574

25. Sun, Q., Lu, N., Jiang, N., & Lou, V. W. Q.* (2020). Intention to use respite services among informal care-givers of frail older adults in China: The role of care needs change. Ageing and society, 1-20. doi:10.1017/S0144686X20000628

26. Jiang, N., Wu, B.*, Lu, N., & Dong, T. (2019). Neighborhood-based social capital and cognitive function among older adults in five low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. doi:10.1002/gps.5239

27. Lu, N., Jiang, N., Sun, Q., & Lou, V. W. Q.* (2019). Community social capital and positive caregiving experiences among adult-children caregivers of older adults with disabilities in urban China. Research On Aging. doi:10.1177/0164027519876095

28. Zhang, J. Y., & Lu, N.* (2019). Community-based cognitive social capital and depressive symptoms among older adults in urban China: The moderating role of family social capital. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. doi:10.1177/0091415019848202

29. Lu, N.*, & Peng, C. (2019). Community-based structural social capital and depressive symptoms of older urban Chinese adults: The mediating role of cognitive social capital. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 82, 74-80. doi:10.1016/j.archger.2019.01.014

30. Lu, N., Peng, C., Jiang, N., & Lou, V.W.Q.* (2018). Cognitive social capital and formal volunteering among older adults in urban China: Does gender matter? Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi: 10.1177/0733464818765279

31. Lu, N., Xu, L., Lou, V.W.Q., & Chi, I.* (2018). Intergenerational relationships and the trajectory of depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults in rural migrant families. Aging & Mental Health, 22(3), 389-396. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2016.12628 21

32. Lu, N., Jiang, N., Lou, V.W.Q., Zeng, Y., & Liu, M.* (2018). Does gender moderate the relationship between social capital and life satisfaction? Evidence from urban China. Research on Aging. doi: 10.1177/0164027517739032

33. Jiang, N., Lou, V.W.Q., & Lu, N.*(2018). Does social capital influence preferences for aging in place? Evidence from urban China. Aging & Mental Health, 22(3), 405-411. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2016.1249455

34. Jiang, N., & Lu, N.* (2018). Correlates of mental illness and health categories among older adults in China: An empirical study based on the two continua model. Clinical Gerontologist. doi: 10.1080/07317115.2018.1470589

35. Lu, N., Liu, J.Y., Wang, F., & Lou, V.W.Q.* (2017). Caring for disabled older adults with musculoskeletal conditions: A transactional model of caregiver burden, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 69, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2016.11.001

36. Lu, N., Lou, V.W.Q., Zuo, D., & Chi, I.* (2017). Intergenerational relationships and self-rated health trajectories among older adults in rural China: Does gender matter? Research on Aging, 39(2), 322-344. doi: 10.1177/0164027515611183

37. Liu, J., Lu, N., & Lou, V.W.Q.* (2017). Care tasks in the stress process for family caregivers in urban China. Clinical Gerontologist, 40(5), 428-434. doi: 10.1080/07317115.2017.1305033

38. Lu, N., Liu, J., & Lou, V.W.Q.* (2016). Exploring the reciprocal relationship between caregiver burden and the functional health of frail older adults in China: A cross-lag analysis. Geriatric Nursing, 37(1), 19-24. doi: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2015.08.014

39. Lu, N., Lum, T.Y.S., & Lou, V.W.Q.* (2016). The impacts of community social capital on the life satisfaction of older adults in Hong Kong: The moderator role of intergenerational family capital. Aging & Mental Health, 20(11), 1213-1220. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1072799

40. Lu, N., Liu, J., & Lou, V.W.Q.* (2015). Caring for frail elders with musculoskeletal conditions and family caregivers’ subjective well-being: The role of multidimensional caregiver burden. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 61(3), 411-418. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2015.07.002

41. Lou, V.W.Q., Lu, N., Xu, L., & Chi, I. (2013). Grandparent–grandchild family capital and self-rated health of older rural Chinese adults: The role of the grandparent–parent relationship. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 68(4), 599-608. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt040

In Chinese

1. Lu, N. (2021). Social Capital, Neighborhood Environment, and Cognitive Function

Among Older Adults Living in Rural Northeast China. Social Construction, 8(4), 75-82.

2. Liu, Y., Sui, Y.J., Lou, V.W.Q., & Lu, N. (2019). The Impacts of social capital on the health of urban older adults in China from the perspective of spirituality. Social Construction, 6(3), 23-37.

3. Lu, N., Peng, C. (2017). Social capital and healthy aging: An empirical study from Suzhou. Social Construction, 6(4), 47-54.

4. Lu, N., Su, X.F., Liu, J.Y., & Lou , V.W.Q. (2015). The frailty index of Chinese frail elders and the psychological well-being of family caregivers in Shanghai: The role of caregiver burden. Social Construction, 2(3), 26-34.

5. Lou , V.W.Q., & Lu, N. (2015). Long-term care for frail elders in Hong Kong: Reflections on policies and practice. In S. Wang (Ed.), China Social Work Research (Vol. 12). Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (China).

6. Lu, N., & Lou, V.W.Q. (2013). The burden of family caregiving and the mental health of frail elders' family caregivers in Shanghai. Journal of Guangdong University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition), 13(6), 20-24.

Book and Book Chapter

In English

1. Lu, N. (2022). Loneliness Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Family and Community Social Capital. Springer Nature.

2. Lou, V.W.Q., & Lu, N. (2013). Social support and well-being of older adults in Eastern Asia: a systematic review Social Support: Theory, Role of Gender and Culture and Health Benefits: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

In Chinese

1. Lu, N. (2017). Comprehensive geriatric assessment. In Sui, Y.J. (Ed.), Gerontological Social Work (Medium Level). Beijing: Chnia Central Radio & Television University Publications.

Selected Conference Presentations in English

1. Lu, N., Wu, B., & Pei, Y.L. (2019). Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship Between Cognitive Function and Edentulism AmongMiddle-aged and Older Adults in China. Paper presented at the The Gerontological Society of America's 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting, Austin, Texas.

2. Lu, N., & Lou, V.W.Q. (2018). Caring for Frail elders with Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Study on Caregiver Burden, Social Support and Life Satisfaction Paper presented at the joint world conference on social work, education and social development, Dublin.

3. Lu, N., & Lou, V.W.Q. (2015). Caring for frail elders with cerebrovascular disease and family caregivers' subjective well-being: the role of coping strategies. Paper presented at the The Gerontological Society of America's 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL.

4. Lu, N., & Lou, V.W.Q. (2014). The burden of family caregiving and the life satisfaction of frail elders' family caregivers in Shanghai. Paper presented at the The Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, Melbourne.

5. Lu, N., Lou, V.W.Q., & Chi, I. (2013). Self-rated health trajectories among rural Chinese older adults: the role of intergenerational relationship. Paper presented at the the 20th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Seoul.

SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS

2019-2022	Principle investigator. Key Project of National Social Science Foundation of China; Project title: “Social capital and the health among older populations in China: From the perspective of active aging framework” Funded by National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences of China; Grant No. 19ASH018; Funded amount: RMB 350,000. Completed.
2016-2017	Principle investigator. Project: “Process evaluation of case management for children living in exceptionally difficult situations in Suzhou”. Funded by Suzhou juvenile protection center. Funded amount: RMB 30,000. Completed.
2015-2017	Principle investigator. Project: “Research on social capital and life satisfaction of older Chinese adults”. Funded by Renmin University of China. Funded amount: RMB 50,000. Completed.
2014-2016	Principle investigator. Project: “Research on the needs and psychological well-being of family caregivers for frail older adults in Suzhou”. Funded by Renmin University of China. Funded amount: RMB 50,000. Completed.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Item	Course name	Course level
1	Program Evaluation	MSW
2	Social Work in Mental Health	MSW
3	Social Work Laboratory course I	MSW
4	Advanced Social Work Practice	MSW
5	Social Work Introduction	BSW
6	Social Policy	BSW

Last updated: 10/June/2023