| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 105 === This thesis aims to understand how the daycare of long-term care policy, Non-profit Organizations (NPO) and public departments can efficiently work together to promote welfare services in Taiwan. We adopt the perspective of public-private partnerships to understand the implementation of the public and private partnerships in terms of the financial responsibility and accountability of care provision. The analysis deals with the day care for dementia elderly, with a special focus on the dilemma and difficulties of implementation for the NPOs and public sector in service delivery amid the transition of the long-term care policy over the decades. Based on this analysis, the thesis offers some suggestions for improving the overall situations.
Against this background, the present study provides an in-depth analysis of the NPOs’ role in the long-term care policy and their relationships with the public sector, in the sense that NPOs serve as an organization provider of community services, offering daycare services to the elderly in need. This is then followed by a further analysis of the interactions between the NPOs and the public sector. From the angles of "financial responsibility" and "accountability" – two important aspects in care provision – it is important to understand whether the partnerships affect the implementation of the service provision; and if so, whether the financial responsibilities and evaluation procedures are reasonable and effective in promoting policy implementation. The analysis also touches upon the problems encountered by the elderly in the daycare centers as well as the challenges confronting theNPOs. To fulfill the role of a local service provider (such as dementia education advocacy), NPOs actually depend on the government to support and promote services with financial subsidies and institutional infrastructures. With joint co-operation and supervision between public sector and NPOs, this will effectively reduce the caring burden for the policy implementation and offer convenient and good services conducive to the family caregivers.
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