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  • Jiang, Yuling, Zhou, Wenjian, Yang, Wei, Hu, Bo, Yao, Yao (2025). Does the long‐term care insurance policy meet the care needs of older individuals with cognitive impairment? a nationwide quasi‐experimental study. Alzheimer's and Dementia, 21(S4). https://doi.org/10.1002/alz70858_101812 picture_as_pdf
  • Ren, Longbing, Zhou, Ying, Liu, Keyang, Zhang, Hao, Li, Shaojie, Hu, Yang, Shirai, Kokoro, Jiang, Yuling, Wu, Yifei & Yu, Mingzhi et al (2025). The effect of healthy lifestyles and social determinants on independent life expectancy and sex differences in China: evidence from a 13-year cohort study. The Lancet. Public health, 10(12), e1016 - e1024. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00253-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Bai, Xue, Zhou, Jia-Jia, Hu, Bo, Shum, David Ho Keung (2025). Childhood threats and cognitive difficulties in mid and later life: a gendered perspective on the mediating role of family functioning. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 68(8), 1055 - 1075. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2025.2471994 picture_as_pdf
  • Ping, Ruru, Hu, Bo, Oshio, Takashi (2025). Paradoxical well-being: time use, psychological distress, and subjective well-being in informal caregiving. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf240 picture_as_pdf
  • Brimblecombe, Nicola, Stevens, Madeleine, Rajagopalan, Jayeeta, Hu, Bo, Cartagena-Farias, Javiera, Pharoah, Daisy (2025). What is the relationship between older people’s housing characteristics and their care needs? Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 37(6), 1216 - 1233. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2024.2422664 picture_as_pdf
  • Brimblecombe, Nicola, Cartagena-Farias, Javiera, Stevens, Madeleine, Rajagopalan, Jayeeta, Hu, Bo (2025). Housing quality and suitability and older people's use of formal and unpaid care. Housing Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2565233 picture_as_pdf
  • Cartagena-Farias, Javiera, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Hu, Bo, Rickman, Sam (2025). Long-term care needs and fuel poverty among older people: beyond energy consumption and affordability. Social Indicators Research, 179(3), 1221 - 1240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03653-3 picture_as_pdf
  • Lyu, Clara, Hu, Bo, Wittenberg, Raphael, King, Derek (2025). The relationships between informal and formal social care for older people in England: a comparison before and after the Care Act 2014. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 36(4), 621 - 638. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2023.2226308 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, King, Derek, Morciano, Marcello (2025). Reforming the funding of long-term care for older people: costs and distributional impacts of planned changes in England. Health Economics, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133125000088 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Cartagena-Farias, Javiera (2025). Social care costs of depressive symptoms in the English older population: then role of housing quality improvements. Innovation in Aging, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaf017 picture_as_pdf
  • Zhou, Wenjian, Guo, Muqi, Hu, Bo, Jiang, Yuling, Yao, Yao (2025). The effect of China's Integrated Medical and Social Care Policy on functional dependency and care deficits in older adults: a nationwide quasi-experimental study. The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100697 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Cartagena-Farias, Javiera, Silva-Ribeiro, Wagner (2025). Projected costs of long-term care for older people in England: the impacts of housing quality improvements. Health Policy, 152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105246 picture_as_pdf
  • Ping, Ruru, Hu, Bo, Oshio, Takashi (2024). Evaluating the impact of a pilot programme for home- and community-based services on long-term care needs among older adults in China. PLOS ONE, 19(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311616 picture_as_pdf
  • Damant, J., King, D., Karagiannidou, M., Dangoor, M., Freddolino, P., Hu, B., Wittenberg, R. (2024). Unpaid carers of people living with dementia: ICT-use, non-use and sources of digital support. Gerontology, p. 1. https://doi.org/10.4017/GT.2024.23.S.1065.OPP picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Bai, Xue, Wang, Pengyun (2024). Childhood adversities and caregiving for older parents: building capacity for a caring society. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae083 picture_as_pdf
  • Damant, Jacqueline, Freddolino, P., Dangoor, Margaret, Hu, Bo, King, Derek, Wittenberg, Raphael (2024). Unpaid carers of people with dementia and information communication technology: use, impact and ideas for the future. Dementia, 23(5), 779 - 799. https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012241249793 picture_as_pdf
  • Read, Sanna, Hicks, Ben, Budden, Emily, Douglass, Jacob, Grahamslaw, Amanda, Herrero, Elena, Joseph, Gregory, Kirkup, Christine, Pusey, Martha & Russell, Alice et al (2024). Long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of life of people with dementia and their family carers. Age and ageing, 53(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad233 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Cartagena-Farias, Javiera, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Jadoolal, Shari, Wittenberg, Raphael (2023). Projected costs of informal care for older people in England. European Journal of Health Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-023-01643-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Yao, Yao, Hu, Bo, Liu, Xiaoyun (2023). Life expectancy trends in China in the post-COVID-19 era. The Lancet Public Health, 8(12), e906 - e907. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00074-9 picture_as_pdf
  • Ren, Xuan, Hu, Bo, Demakakos, Panayotes (2023). Adverse childhood experiences and age-trajectories of depressive symptoms in older adults from China. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2). https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1609 picture_as_pdf
  • Cartagena Farias, Javiera, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Hu, Bo (2023). Early onset of care needs in the older population: the protective role of housing conditions. Health and Place, 81, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103007 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Yang, Wei, Bouanchaud, Paul, Chongo, Yolanda, Wheeler, Jennifer, Chicumbe, Sergio, Chissano, Marcos (2023). Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Mozambique: the role of institutional trust. Vaccine, 41(17), 2846-2852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.03.053 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Rodrigues, Ricardo, Wittenberg, Raphael, Rhee, Yong Joo (2023). Long-term care for older people: a global perspective. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1178397
  • Read, Sanna, Hu, Bo, Dixon, Josie, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Wittenberg, Raphael, Brayne, Carol, Banerjee, Sube (2023). Receipt of help by people with cognitive impairment: results from the English longitudinal study of ageing. Aging and Mental Health, 27(2), 272 - 280. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.2017846 picture_as_pdf
  • Rothschild, Claire W., Hu, Bo, Archer, Justin, Udoh, Ekerette Emmanuel, Onyezobi, Chinedu, Nwala, Anthony (2022). Differences in contraceptive prices between and within family planning outlets in urban and semi-urban Nigeria: a prospective cohort study. AJOG Global Reports, 2(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xagr.2022.100131 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Chou, Yueh Ching (2022). Care poverty among older adults in East Asia: a comparison of unmet care needs between China and Taiwan. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2022.104738 picture_as_pdf
  • Yue, Lirong, Jia, Congxi, Hu, Bo, Zhang, Zhenzhen, Bai, Meng, Wang, Shuangshuang, Yao, Nengliang (2022). Caregiving stress among family caregivers of older adults living with disabilities in China. Geriatric Nursing, 47, 226-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.07.017 picture_as_pdf
  • Kingston, Andrew, Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Jagger, Carol (2022). Projections of dependency and associated social care expenditure for the older population in England to 2038: effect of varying disability progression. Age and ageing, 51(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac158 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Read, Sanna, Wittenberg, Raphael, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Rodrigues, Ricardo, Banerjee, Sube, Dixon, Josie, Robinson, Louise, Rehill, Amritpal, Fernández, José-Luis (2022). Socioeconomic inequality of long-term care for older people with and without dementia in England. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000885 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Shin, Peter, Han, Eun Jeong, Rhee, Yongjoo (2022). Projecting informal care demand among older Koreans between 2020 and 2067. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116391 picture_as_pdf
  • Hicks, Ben, Read, Sanna, Hu, Bo, Wittenberg, Raphael, Grahamslaw, Amanda, Karim, Anomita, Martin, Evelyn, Nuzum, Eleanor, Reichental, Jacob & Russell, Alice et al (2022). A cohort study of the impact of COVID-19 on the quality of life of people newly diagnosed with dementia and their family carers. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12236 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Wei, Mingyu (2022). Childhood adversities and unmet needs of older Chinese adults: the mediation effects of family relationships. Research on Aging, 44(5-6), 465 - 476. https://doi.org/10.1177/01640275211048237 picture_as_pdf
  • Yang, Wei, Hu, Bo (2022). Catastrophic health expenditure and mental health in the older Chinese population: the moderating role of social health insurance. Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(1), 160 - 169. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab130 picture_as_pdf
  • Knapp, Martin, Bauer, Annette, Wittenberg, Raphael, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Cyhlarova, Eva, Hu, Bo, Jagger, Carol, Kingston, Andrew, Patel, Anita & Spector, Aimee et al (2022). What are the current and projected future cost and health-related quality of life implications of scaling up cognitive stimulation therapy? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5633 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo (2021). Childhood adversity and healthy ageing: a study of the Chinese older population. European Journal of Ageing, 18(4), 523 - 535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00608-8 picture_as_pdf
  • Read, Sanna, Hu, Bo, Wittenberg, Raphael, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Robinson, Louise, Banerjee, Sube (2021). A longitudinal study of functional unmet need among people with dementia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 84(2), 705 - 716. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-210724 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo (2021). Is bullying victimization in childhood associated with mental health in old age. Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76(1), 161 - 172. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz115 picture_as_pdf
  • Wu, Wenjie, Yun, Yanwen, Hu, Bo, Sun, Yeran, Xiao, Yang (2020). Greenness, perceived pollution hazards and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126796 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo (2020). Trajectories of informal care intensity among the oldest-old Chinese. Social Science & Medicine, 266, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113338 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Wu, Wenjie (2020). Parental support in education and social integration of migrant children in urban public schools in China. Cities, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102870 picture_as_pdf
  • Qin, Fang Yu, Lv, Zhe Qi, Wang, Dan Ni, Hu, Bo, Wu, Chao (2020). Health status prediction for the elderly based on machine learning. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104121 picture_as_pdf
  • Yang, Wei, Wu, Bei, Tan, Si Ying, Li, Bingqin, Lou, Vivian W.Q., Chen, Zhuo, Chen, Xi, Fletcher, James Rupert, Carrino, Ludovico & Hu, Bo et al (2020). Understanding health and social challenges for aging and long-term care in China. Research on Aging, https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027520938764 picture_as_pdf
  • Wu, Wenjie, Shen, Yang, Hu, Bo, Du, Minzhe (2020). Non-familial coresidence and life satisfaction: evidence from China. Habitat International, 100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102188 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Li, Lei (2020). The protective effects of informal care receipt against the progression of functional limitations among Chinese older people. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(5), 1030 - 1041. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby107 picture_as_pdf
  • Peng, Huamin, Qi, Lin, Wan, Guowei, Li, Bingqin, Hu, Bo (2020). Child population, economic development and regional inequality of education resources in China. Children and Youth Services Review, 110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104819 picture_as_pdf
  • Farina, Nicolas, Hicks, ben, Baxter, Kate, Birks, Yvonne, Brayne, Carol, Dangoor, Margaret, Dixon, Josie, Harris, Peter R., Hu, Bo & Knapp, Martin et al (2020). DETERMinants of quality of life, care and costs, and consequences of INequalities in people with Dementia and their carers (DETERMIND): a protocol paper. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 35(3), 290 - 301. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5246 picture_as_pdf
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Jagger, Carol, Kingston, Andrew, Knapp, Martin, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, King, Derek, Rehill, Amritpal, Banerjee, Sube (2020). Projections of care for older people with dementia in England: 2015 to 2040. Age and Ageing, 49(2), 264-269. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz154 picture_as_pdf
  • Shi, Cheng, Hu, Bo (2020). Preferences for formal social care in rural and urban China: evidence from a national survey. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(1-2), 19 - 40. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2019.1709246 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Li, Bingqin, Wang, Jing, Shi, Cheng (2020). Home and community care for older people in urban China: receipt of services and sources of payment. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(1), 225 - 235. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12856 picture_as_pdf
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Knapp, Martin, Hu, Bo, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, King, Derek, Rehill, Amritpal, Shi, Cheng, Banerjee, Sube, Patel, Anita & Jagger, Carol et al (2019). The costs of dementia in England. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 34(7), 1095-1103. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5113 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Wang, Jing (2018). Unmet long‐term care needs and depression: the double disadvantage of community‐dwelling older people in rural China. Health and Social Care in the Community, https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12630
  • Hu, Bo (2018). Projecting future demand for informal care among older people in China: the road towards a sustainable long-term care system. Health Economics, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133118000221
  • Hu, Bo, Ma, Sai (2016). Receipt of informal care in the Chinese older population. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X16001318
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo (2016). The impact of Alzheimer's disease in China. EBioMedicine, 4, 22-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.02.018
  • Hu, Bo, West, Anne (2015). Exam-oriented education and implementation of education policy for migrant children in urban China. Educational Studies, 41(3), 249-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2014.977780
  • Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Malley, Juliette, Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Jagger, Carol (2011). Disability, dementia and the future costs of long-term care. Eurohealth, 17(2,3), 10-12.
  • Li, Bingqin, Sheng, Bin, Hu, Bo (2009). Gongsi shehui zeren, kuaguoqiye yu dongdaoguo zhengfu de zuoyong: laizi zhongguo difang anli de zhengju. Nankai Xuebao, 2009(5), 115-125.
  • Hu, Bo, Li, Bingqin, Sheng, Bin (2009). Jingji weiji, zhengfu yu kuaguoqiye shehui zeren. Guoji Jingji Pinglun, 2009(6), 43-48.
  • Li, Bingqin, Hu, Bo, Sheng, Bin (2009). Kuaguo gongsi shehui zeren de fanchou. Jingji Wenti, (6), p. 67.
  • Li, Bingqin, Hu, Bo, Sheng, Bin (2008). Qiye shehui zeren yufuli guojia de zeren jiqi dui shehui zhengce de yingxiang. Zhongguo Shehui Gongzuo, 90-105.
    • Chapter
  • Li, Bingqin, Fang, Lijie, Hu, Bo, Wang, Jing (2024). New actors and new systems in aged care services in China. In Yi, Ilcheong, Kaasch, Alexandra, Stetter, Kelly (Eds.), Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies (pp. 230 - 247). Policy Press.
  • Murphy, Michael J., Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Morciano, Marcello, Comas-Herrera, Adelina (2018). Modelling ageing populations to 2030: financing long term care in England. In Walker, Alan (Ed.), The new dynamics of ageing volume 1 (pp. 15-34). Policy Press.
    • Report
  • Hu, Bo, Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, Mayorga, Joaquín, Pauschardt, Julia (2025). Impact of potential policy changes on projected expenditure on adult social care. London School of Economics and Political Science. Care Policy and Evaluation Centre. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.x3awmsjmahap picture_as_pdf
  • Adams, John, Curry, Chris, Espuny-Pujol, Ferran, Hancock, Ruth, Hu, Bo, King, Derek, Luheshi, Sarah, Morciano, Marcello, Pike, Timothy & Popat, Shamill et al (2015). Interactions between state pension and long-term care reforms: an overview. Pensions Policy Institute, LSE PSSRU, University of East Anglia.
  • Knapp, Martin, Barlow, James, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Damant, Jacqueline, Freddolino, Paul P., Hamblin, Kate, Hu, Bo, Lorenz, Klara, Perkins, Margaret & Rehill, Amritpal et al (2015). The case for investment in technology to manage the global costs of dementia. Policy Innovation Research Unit.
  • Hu, Bo, Wittenberg, Raphael, Knapp, Martin (2015). The hidden cost of dementia in Wales. Alzheimer’s Disease Society.
  • Knapp, Martin, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, King, Derek, Rehill, Amritpal, Adelaja, Bayo (2014). Scenarios of dementia care: what are the impacts on cost and quality of life? (PSSRU discussion paper 2878). University of Kent at Canterbury. Personal Social Services Research Unit.
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Fernández, José-Luis (2012). Care for older people: projected expenditure to 2022 on social care and continuing health care for England older population. Nuffield Trust in partneship with LSE PSSRU.
    • Thesis
  • Hu, Bo (2012). Education for migrant children: policy implementation in the changing urban education system in China [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Online resource
  • Stevens, Madeleine, Brimblecombe, Nicola, Hu, Bo (2014). Sue and Aaron: services for struggling families.
    • Working paper
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Hancock, Ruth (2018). Projections of demand and expenditure on adult social care 2015 to 2040. (PSSRU discussion papers DP2944). Personal Social Services Research Unit, Economics of Health and Social Care Systems Policy.
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo (2017). Projected demand for supported housing in Great Britain 2015 to 2030. (PSSRU discussion papers DP2931). Personal Social Services Research Unit, Economics of Health and Social Care Systems Policy.
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo (2015). Projections of demand for and costs of social care for older people and younger adults in England, 2015 to 2035. (PSSRU discussion paper DP2900). University of Kent at Canterbury. Personal Social Services Research Unit.
  • Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Morciano, Marcella, Comas-Herrera, Adelina (2013). Long-term care funding in England: an analysis of the costs and distributional effects of potential reforms. (PSSRU Discussion Paper series). University of Kent at Canterbury. Personal Social Services Research Unit.
  • Wittenberg, Raphael, Hu, Bo, Hancock, Ruth, Morciano, Marcello, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Malley, Juliette, King, Derek (2011). Projections of demand for and costs of social care for older people in England, 2010 to 2030, under current and alternative funding systems. (PSSRU discussion paper 2811/2). PSSRU.