KIMCHI (Koreans Invested in Making Caregivers Health Important)

 

What Is KIMCHI?

KIMCHI is an educational outreach project on different health topics tailored to the Korean American culture for caregivers and other stakeholders that serve Korean Americans. 

 

 

 

Our Goal

The goal of “KIMCHI” is to help Korean Americans learn more about healthy cognitive aging, dementia caregiving, advanced care planning, and how to better care for themselves and their loved ones. 

 

 

Why is KIMCHI important?

It can be difficult to find information about caregiving and advanced directives that is
- Accurate
- Updated
- In Korean

KIMCHI will share this information for Korean American caregivers and family members so they can feel comfortable using the new research to better care for themselves and their loved ones. 

 

 

 

What can care look like?

Care we mean assisting with different tasks like bathing, cooking, or other things that help this person's daily life. Care can also include making phone calls, providing transportation, or staying nearby to keep the person calm or safe. The care you provide can be in person, or from a distance if you don't live with the person who needs this care.

 

Meet Our Team 

Hye-Won Shin, PhD
Project Lead, Somang Society

Van Ta Park, PhD, MPH
Project Co-Lead, UCSF

Eun Jeong Lee, PhD
Community Lead, AARIN

Dr. Bora Nam, PhD, MSN, RN
Research Project Manager 

Nicole Phan
Project Policy Analyst 

Bobin Kim
Research Data Analyst

Daren Huang, MPH
Data System Analyst

Elizabeth Lee
Administrator, Somang Society

 

 

Scientific Advisors & Community Advisory Board

Lee A. Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA

Northwestern University

Kathy Lee Siepker, PhD, LCSW

University of Texas Arlington, 

David Choi, JD

AAX Media

 

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