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Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy

Dr Benson IP joined the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in 2025. He is a registered Occupational Therapist in UK, Hong Kong, Australia & New Zealand. Dr IP is devoted and passionate about the caring services and health technology innovation in aged care, pioneering a research project on Virtual Reality technology on fall prevention for older adults with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

Over 25 years of working experiences, he is experienced in eldercare management and community-based rehabilitation for people living with disability and dementia. He has gained extensive clinical experiences in Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand particularly in eldercare, managing models and innovative health technology services.

Dr IP became the first Eden Alternative associate in Hong Kong, and he is enthusiastic in promoting this new eldercare service model and in supporting care culture education within Hong Kong and surrounding countries. He is considered one of the Eden Asia regional educators and has been supporting and learning the Eden curricula, to take this into Hong Kong and Macau.

Other References

Qualifications

• PhD Health and Community - ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Southern Queensland
• MA Guidance and Counselling – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Durham
• BSc Hons Psychology – Liverpool John Moores ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
• PD Occupational Therapy – The Hong Kong Polytechnic ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

Teaching Expertise

• Dementia Care
• Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Neurological Rehabilitation
• Practice Education

Research Interests

• Fall Prevention in Older adults
• Virtual Reality Technology Applications in Aged Care
• Dementia Care Education
• Sensory Processing Disorder

External Roles

• External PhD supervisor at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Southern Queensland
• Committee member of a dementia care project at Salvation Army Hong Kong
• External review committee member at the Hong Kong Society for Gerontology

Publications

• Ip, W. K., Soar, J., James, C., Wang, S. Y., & Fong, K. N. (2025). Virtual reality game-based training for preventing falls among community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a pilot randomized control trial study. Virtual Reality, 29(1), 1-11.
• Ip, W. K., Soar, J., James, C., Wang, Z., & Fong, K. N. (2024). Innovative Virtual Reality (VR) Application for Preventing of Falls among Chinese Older Adults: A Usability and Acceptance Exploratory ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. Human Behaviour and Emerging Technologies, 2024(1), 5556767.

Contact Details

E: benson.ip@beds.ac.uk