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the verification of certification qualifications for indigenous areas has successfully established of 9
long-term care personnel. Moreover, the system day care centers as of the end of 2022.
establishes a connection between institutions
3. Support services for family caregivers
and personnel through a code linkage, thereby
(1) Provision of Support Services and Relevant
enabling the registration of long-term care
Information for Family Caregivers
personnel under the management of long-term
care institutions. To expand the country's capacity for family
caregivers and increase its accessibility and
Section 2 Diverse Innovative Service
coverage of services, the MOHW provided
1. Care Services for People with Dementia subsidies for municipal governments to implement
the "Innovative Program for Supportive Services
Long-term Care 2.0 includes people with dementia
for Family Caregivers" in 2018. Municipal
over the age of 50 as eligible care recipients. In
governments are encouraged to develop services
an effort to strengthen community-based service
best suited to their specific needs and set up
capacity for people with dementia, the MOHW has
family caregiving support service centers. As of
also established more Support Center for People
the end of 2022, a total of 119 family caregiving
with Dementia and their Families (SPDF) while taking
centers have been established.
various measures such as awareness promotion,
dementia alleviation, courses on family care, and To expedite the provision of relevant services
to high-burden family caregivers, the MOHW
family support groups. In addition, the MOHW
issued a letter on May 10, 2021, containing the
has established Integrated Dementia Care Center
"Preliminary Screening Indicators for High-Burden
(IDCC) in municipalities across Taiwan in the hopes
Family Caregivers in Long-term Care" and the
of providing proper guidance/assistance as well as
"Referral and Service Process for High-Burden
information services, referrals and other supporting
Family Caregivers in Long-term Care." These
services. These centers will help to coordinate
initiatives aimed to enhance the sensitivity of
medical resources, and arrange the provision of
network members in identifying high-burden family
relevant care services. As of 2022, the MOHW has
caregivers and establish effective cross-agency
established a total of 535 SPDFs and 117 IDCCs.
referral and resource coordination. Moreover, to
2. Indigenous Area Long-Term Care Services Trial
ensure that services effectively respond to the
Program
demands of family caregivers, indicators related
In an effort to deliver long-term care to indigenous to interdepartmental collaboration and public-
communities and achieve the goal of localized private cooperation mechanisms were included
aging for tribal elders, the President has instructed in the local health authority's business evaluation
the establishment of cultural health stations. It for 2022. Local governments were required
encourages local governments to assist local to establish capacity-building and supervision
indigenous tribe in setting up day care centers as mechanisms for service units serving family
a step towards providing multi-level long-term care caregivers within their jurisdictions, promoting
services, including day care service, temporary quality improvement in case management through
overnight lodging, transportation services, respite horizontal collaboration.
services, and outreach home care. This initiative (2) Long-term care for Families with Foreign In-
also aims to cultivate local care workers and home Caregivers
establish comprehensive long-term care services in The care recipients who were attended by
indigenous communities. foreign domestic caregivers (hereinafter referred
As a result of intensive cross-agency communication to as "foreign caregivers") and assessed as
and close collaboration with local government, requiring level 2 or above of long-term care
the pilot program for long-term care services in needs, were eligible to apply for professional

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