Long-Term Care 2.0 May Well Become an Uncatchable Pokémon

Still didn’t think the WHOLE thing through, did ya! Whoever it was, that came UP with this “idea”, should consider getting her/his BRAINS examined! From the Front Page Sections, translated…

On the eve of implementing Long-Term Care 2.0, a report pointed out the lacking of the current implemented system of long-term care. Long-Term Care 2.0, may become this Pokémon that the members of the public longed to catch, but won’t be able to, NO matter WHERE they go.

The lacking of system’s functions posted by the Taiwan Social Welfare League’s “Grade Sheets for the Cities and Counties’ Long-Term Care Progresses” are shown now; the lack of number of personnel in the industries, the overload of work responsibilities, long work hours, lack of professional training, the high fluidity of workers, the long winding procedures of verifying that services are needed, along with the time it took, to actually provide those in need of care the care that they need, the lacking of people going to the senior centers, along with other difficulties.

The caretakers are the soul characters of the Long-Term Care systems that the government had, proposed, without the evaluations of the specialists, the plans for care drafted up, there would be NONE of the care provisions that come after. The surveys showed, that the personal caretakers are in serious lacking, this showed the most in the six major cities in Taiwan, there’s this high rate of fluidity of personnel from one house to the next. The Sanitary and Health Department had originally planned that there would be one professional caretaker per two hundred elderly who couldn’t care for themselves, but,, for every one of the professional caretakers right now, each is responsible for overseeing the wellbeing of SIX HUNDRED who’d lost abilities, and, the number of elderly who’d needed the care in Hsinbei City and Yilan reached up to over a thousand.

And, if the average work day of the year is 261 days, and each professional caretaker needed to take care of six hundred separate cases, then, it would average out to two, three cases per day, which makes the workload unbearable, plus there’s that lack of professional training, and, it’s a by-hire system, what the workers are earning, doesn’t balance out with what they’d put in, and, in this vicious cycle, naturally, there wouldn’t be, stable personnel resources, there was, a fifty-percent rate of no longer wanting to work as a caretaker in the city of Hsinchu just last year, and, Long-Term Care 2.0 is about to apply a brand new evaluation system, and, this will only make matters worse.

Adding to all of this is: only a few days ago, did the Department of Social Services post out the evaluation basis, the standardized payment measures of the systems hurriedly, and, all of these newly implemented rules and regulations are delayed until second quarter next year to start. Long-Term Care 2.0 is about to take off, and, there are still the details, the specifics that needed to work out, and, after the New Year’s, the older systems will be used, and so, we can expect, the system to cause more difficulties that are coming to us.

President Tsai claimed that the government will be providing a “high-quality, low cost, ordinary long-term care systems”, but, the budgets for the long-term care programs are always lacking and unstable, and, there’s this, long-term insufficiency of personnel provided for the systems. And now, as Europe, America, and Japan all face this problem of long-term care, and, they’d asked the private enterprises to chip in, to have the money needed for the long-term care programs provided both by the government, as well as the private sectors, the government needed to establish a set of fair, open, and fair methods of operations, along with an objective system of evaluations, to replace the past system of the government directly providing the services needed, so the public has the choice, of which sort of long-term care they wanted to have. Only through the market economy, sparking that competitiveness, along with the surfacing of higher quality care, can the government manage to resolve the current problems of lack of personnel and the budget going over for the long-term care programs.

So, the long-term care program here, has a TON of problems: the lack of funds, for one, and, the lack of certified personnel, because in these caretaking facilities, you’re looking at the elderly in the population who may have lost the ability to care for themselves, that, is why they’d needed this system of care, and yet, the government here, is trying to get the money needed to set up these facilities on its own, and, even with the increases in the taxes of the citizens won’t make enough money for the government for these long-term care facilities, the government should get help from the private sectors like those big names in the electronic, mechanical, or businesses, to help with some of the funding, but, the government would then have to, come up with some incentives for these larger-scale companies with the funds, so, there’s still, a lot of planning to do, before this system of long-term care can fully be up and running!