The Status and Restrictions of Aboriginal Tribal Elderly Day Care Stations’ Direct Services and Aging in Place:Cases of Sinyi Township of Nantou County

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 社會工作與兒童少年福利學系 === 104 === This essay will be focus on Sinyi Township of Nantou County aboriginal tribe' daily caring station to promote the situations and limitations of orderly caring services.This essay will use the interview method and focus on four of the orders' carin...

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Main Authors: Hsu, Yi-Jou, 許亦韖
Other Authors: Kuo, Chen-Yen
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v4d842
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Summary:碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 社會工作與兒童少年福利學系 === 104 === This essay will be focus on Sinyi Township of Nantou County aboriginal tribe' daily caring station to promote the situations and limitations of orderly caring services.This essay will use the interview method and focus on four of the orders' caring services related servant including the manager and the practical staffs in order to analyze and collect. Research results show: (1) Interviewees felt a tremendous lack of service providers in elderly care stations and even more for volunteers; (2) The lack of autonomy in the usage of space, which means the need to rent or share space with other organizations, is extremely inconvenient; (3) The inadequacy of professional skills, such as operation of transportation facilities or basic computer skills, among staff members in the elderly care stations adds to the heavy burdens of those in charge of the stations. Computer skills are especially lacking, thus the burden of performance evaluation reports often land on a single person; (4) The roles and functions of elderly care stations, which include social relationships and interactions, maintenance of health and mental support, do help with the implementation of aging in place for the tribal elderly. The researcher advises: (1) Healthcare services and activity designs should incorporate aboriginal tribal culture and better grasp the principle of aging in place; (2) There is still room for improvement in professional knowledge and skills of care-taking among elderly care station workers. It is advisable to develop different professional training programs based on tribal characteristics, incorporating the tribes to provide training that is complete and organized; (3) The government should have plans to regulate and supervise in order to develop aboriginal tribes'macro caring mood, through empowerment trend to add it aboriginal orderly caring services to enhance the power of service, at the same time,to merge with the regional industries to expend resources from outside, to successfully make aboriginal orderly catering institute progress to self-developing condition and promote the aboriginal tribe's orders' living standard.