Because in order to work in this field, you not only needed the passions for it, you also need to be able to last a long time on the jobs! From the Newspapers, translated…
The government pushed forth the programs in long-term care industries, but there’s, a lacking in the frontline personnel, mostly were made up of people after midlife, or someone who’d entered into the workforce again, there’s, little to NO members of the younger generations working. In order to resolve the lacking in personnel, the Taichung city government and Taipei city government are handing out incentives, hoping to attract members of the younger generations to work in the field, to stabilize the personnel of the caretakers of the elderly, but there’s only, limited result.
In order to help more people, the Sanitary Department of Taipei in July set up a long-term care department, with a window at the offices, helping the members of the public with issues on the area, to help the locals apply for the services they’d needed, to assess the need for long-term care help, but there’s only ten percent of the calls coming in; the long-term care hotline “1966” will be operative in December, the government hoped, that the citizens will utilize this.
The Taichung Employment Center’s manager, Fu stated, that there’s, this lacking in personnel of long-term care, there were only a little over 300 younger generation employees in the field locally, making up just ten-percent of the total population of workers.
The social services department of Taichung found, that most of the caretakers were of the middle age or reentry into the workforce, there are almost no people under thirty who’s doing this work, primarily because the work is too stressful, with a limited development of career, plus the expectations from society and the families.
Toward the lacking in number of caretaking personnel, the city government had given a raise in January to the caretakers, with the increase of $5,000N.T. on the monthly pays, and the hourly pay increase of $2,000N.T.s, to help rise the stay rate from last year’s seventy-percent to eighty this year; but it still didn’t do anything for the rate of quitting of currently working caretakers.
So, because of the nature of this work, it’s hard, long-hours, and you need to be ready for ANYTHING that comes, because, you NEVER know what can happen, in the caretaking of an elderly, that, is why it’s really hard, for the workers to stay working, and, raises are not the primary issue of keeping these employees going, you must also have a supportive network, for the workers, as this line of work is very stressful.
Life, the Obstacle Course 