The Research on The Caring System And Operation of The Aged in Hualien Country

• Main Authors: Wei-Min Hsiou, 蕭為民
• Other Authors: Chin-peng Chu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17698026392424188258

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 公共行政研究所 === 97 === The twenty-first century the century of aging population. According to the census of the department of Household Registration,Ministry of Interior,the aging population in Taiwan amounted to one million four hundred and eight thousandpeople in Aug, 1993,which occupied 7.1% of the total population. That is over the 7% index set by the WHO of the UN. And Taiwan has formally become a“ageing society”. Since 1993,the aging population has been on the increase. By2002, the aging population in Taiwan has been over two million people. Moreover, the statistical data of The Depa- rtment of Social Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, shows that, by July,2007, the aging population has reached more than2million312thousand people, occupying 10.09% of the total population. It is over 10%,witch means one in ten Taiwanese is an aged pers- son. In the future, when the proportion is over 14%,Taiwan will futherbecome a real aging society. In our Chinese tardition, we always respect the elderly. However, because the society is fast-changing in these years, and medical technology is developing fast, the average life span has increased a lot and the proportion of the aging populat- tion is also rising. Women becoming career ones have some important effect on the rasing on young children and the caring of the aged. According to the statistics by June, 2008,from the Department of Social Affairs, Ministry of Interior, there are totally 991 apartments for the aged and caring institutes. Among them, there are 9 community caring houses, five apartments for the aged,42 caring institutes, 902 raising institutes and 33 long-term caring institutes. With the tendency of the fast chang of the aging society, institutional form of caring becomes more and more important. This model integrates and unites the strength of family, civic institutes, various groups and the government, and offers the aged the welfare system of complete caring, raising and long-term caring. That will suffice the insufficient function of the family caring to improve the welfare of the aged. The research focuses on the sections concerned of the long-term caring institutes and other caring institutes; we also make use of the model of CORPs to do the research on the follwing questions and hope that in the process of research, we can find out some problems and raise some suggestions to solve them. 1. To understand the ways of executive measures by Hualien County Government in the caring institutes. 2. To understand the measures and effects to care for the aging inhabitants in every caring institute. 3. To review the requirements of the aging inhabitants about the caring measures in the institutes.