The New Market Field of Long-term Care Industry - Innovation and Integration Strategy among the Day Care Centers and Home Care Centers

• Main Authors: Chi-Chou Huang, 黃啟洲
• Other Authors: I-Hsuan Hong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/468s7q

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 工業工程學研究所 === 102 === Taiwan is soon to be a "super-aged society" in a couple of decades-more than 20% of population are senior people. In an aging society, family structures and family caring members will be changed when demographic characteristics change. The independent and comfortable living way for the elderly is an interesting research topic while developed countries have made "aging in place" as the main stream of long-term caring policy objectives, where aging in place is to assist an elderly staying at home for an independent and enjoyable life. In recent years, the governments are also actively promoting the "deinstitutionalization" of long-term care. The feature and capability of nursing centers can be seen in the community and home so that the elderly can live in their own familiar community or home. Including home care and day care, the community care is composed of two separate types of long-term care, collectively referred to as "community care services." Home Care is the most upstream of the long-term care for the most widely popular demand. While the Day Care is a transition from institutional care to home care. Both the demand and supply of community care are expected to be growing in the current aging society. However, we do not observe the growing trend in Taiwan due to the low-cost and substitution effects of foreign caregivers in Taiwan. This results in that community-based care service industry has been unable to successfully thrive as a private business. This study is to propose policy recommendations and innovative-designed operated ways to improve the current care patterns of elderly in a community. The proposed concepts can benefit the physical and mental health of elderly people; thereby delaying the aging process and diminishing the relative consumption of medical resources.