On the Issue of Long-Term Care, the Government Turned Toward the Local Communities

From the Front Page Sections, this, is what’s trending now, translated…

The population is aging really quickly here, and, on the subject of long-term care policies, the vice president, Chen yesterday, stressed at the Taiwan Annual Surgical Conference, that other than being “community-based”, the new policies will set the local sanitation departments up as the elderly population’s “Health Management Centers”, so the elderly wouldn’t need to go to the major hospitals for everything, reducing, the risks of infections.

And, toward the subject of manpower of this system, the government is leaning towards “getting the part-time nursing staff members” to work at the community’s elderly centers, and using their professional skills, to provide the cares needed by the elderly.

Chen stated, that in the past, the long-term care programs leaned toward the “Collective Care Center” systems, but later on, he’d realized, that if the care centers are community-based, it would benefit the elderly more. And so, the new government is planning on turning the local sanitation clinics into “Community Health Management Centers”, to provide the convenient, and immediate healthcare programs, and working alongside the local hospitals’ records of the patients as well.

This, is just a policy, that the new VP hope to start up, and, the thought is very well-rounded, but, as this system is put into “practice”, I’m sure, that there’s a lot that these government officials hadn’t taken into considerations of, and, until they actually, set up these systems, will these problems that they’re not seeing pop out! But, you have to give it to the legislators, that this, would be a very good ideal, but, is it, real??? We, can’t, really tell yet!