| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華大學 === 行政管理學系碩士班 === 98 === Fude low-income housing households were built in 1970, located between lane 94 and lane 96, Da-Do Rd., Xinyi district, Taipei City. They are free households provided to low- income citizens by Department of Social Welfare, Taipei City Government. In the floods of urban renewal, old Fude low-income housing households are going to be dismantled; their number plates will go to history at the same time and then be kept in people’s memory.
This research focuses on the project of urban renewal and dismantling to move at current location of Fude low-income housing. The objects include 249 households of the elderly living alone, officials at Department of Social Welfare, supervisors and social workers at Fude low-income housing office. It conducts methods of in-depth interview of qualitative research, observation, theory and literature reference to deep probe into, before low-income households are dismantled to move, the condition of scheme and implementation of the resettlement policy for the elderly living alone, as well as the status of their place attachment, mood and feeling. From the three aspects, researchers probe into reason and type of place attachment from interviewed elderly living alone. They are life track, sense of place and interpersonal relationship respectively. Place attachment commonly exists for the elderly living alone at Fude low-income housing, and it’s sure an unavoidable problem when implementing resettlement policy. But social works’ love, patience, guidance skill can reduce emotion of place attachment. Besides, feedback on the social workers’ guidance from the elderly living alone at Fude low-income housing is positive. But the evaluation is both positive and negative on the resettlement location, the policy responses on the latter.
Research comes out that, regarding policy making on contents of settlement policy for the elderly living alone at Fude low-income housing, 1.The settlement policy is law compliable. 2. Policy’s setup emphasizes localization. 3. Policy model is taking incremental approach. 4. Channel of policy’s legitimization goes through authorization by officials at government organization. 5. Policy is with feedback mechanism to allow social workers to seek welfare for the disadvantaged. 6. Policy implementation uses current manpower and settlement locations resources owned by Department of Social Welfare. 7. Locations for settling the elderly living alone at low-income housing include relocation to another low-income housing, moving to retirement institution, assistance in renal, moving to elder care institution and veterans home, returning to the mainland China or seeking help from relatives and friends. Next, on the real side of implementing policy, related personnel at Fude low-income housing office set up an operation method themselves without any experience. Settlement policy for the elderly living alone is completely transparent, public and open, it gives consideration to sentiment, reason and law and acts on the premise of the demand of the elderly living alone. Social workers at Fude low-income housing office thinks there are four problems for the elderly living alone when facing households dismantled to move : they are economic issue, place attachment, hesitant about settlement location and wrong expectation on the settlement process. Social workers spend lots of efforts on counseling the elderly living alone and solving these problems. In these cases, settlement policy conducted by social workers at Fude low-income housing conforms to “task centered model “theorized in social work, which bases on the good relation between social workers and the elderly living alone and holds specialty principles and skills of “client self-determination”, ”patience”, “empathey” , “acceptance”, ”guidance to positive thinking”, “utilization of same generation strength”. Basing on the sense of responsibility and values, social workers at Fude low-income housing start feedback mechanism in the process of implementing settlement policy, and strive for rights, interests and welfare for the elderly living alone. Researcher’s suggestions to the settlement policy for the elderly living alone are: 1. Raising the rental allowance. 2. Adding living alone house to settlement locations. 3. Combining social resources to provide free service.
Taiwan has gone to aging society already; it’s very common for the elderly to live alone. In the process of urban renewal, settlement and relocation of the elderly living alone happens anytime. Researcher thinks the setup and implementation of settlement policy for the elderly living alone at Fude low-income housing goes smoothly with a long period of adaption and compromise. It’s obvious to see the efforts from Department of Social Welfare and social workers at Fude low-income housing office because there has been no any resistance and conflict from the elderly living alone. This valuable experience will be enough to be the guidance when conducting similar case in the future.
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