A Study on Senior Housing Development in Taiwan
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Wang, Chen-Yi
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The growing population of aged citizen has become one of the important social issues. The living environment, health care, and medical care for those aged citizen have been brought to the attention by governments in those aging contries. In this fast changing society, the structure of family has been changed when more women go out to make living. The family is lack of the manpower to take care. Therefore to build a well organized senior housing system to meet the strong demand of the aging sociaty has become an urgent demand.
However, senior housing facility is still in its infancy. It is not able to meet the increasing demand of senior caring needs. Local authority needs to utilize its power, and to combine all available resource from the society, and results in constructing a high quality and enough quantity senior housing facility to catch up the demands. A recent example is an under planning state-run enterprise, which intends to expand its business scope to enhance its competitiveness and to make a long term planning of its business roadmap by entering the construction of the senior house system.
This study analyzes the current condition of our senior housing, together with the information about the senior housing in developed and aging countries like Japan, US, England, Sweden, Demark and Germany, to obtain a reference for the improvement that we can make to build a better senior housing system. Furthermore, the experience from the developing case of the aforementioned state-run enterprise is also used to refine the conclusion and the suggestions on how to make a better constructed senior housing facility. The suggestions include: (1) resource integration of local authority and society, (2) setting rules and regulations, (3) searching for constant funding source, and (4) the combination of welfare policy and resource sharing. For the corporation intend to join into this sector, the following suggestions on the evaluation of investment are given: (1) business model, market position and planning, (2) introduction of advanced technology to the facility, and (3) construction of the linkage between communities.
Subjects
銀髮住宅
養生村
senior housing
Type
thesis