| dc.description.abstract | Our country is about to enter a super-aged society in 2025, and the government has promoted ＂Long-term Care Policy 2.0＂ in 2017, significantly increasing the budget to meet the needs of long-term care services for the elderly.
In this situation, our country confirmed the first local case on January 28, 2020. In order to comply with government policies and epidemic prevention requirements, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced the establishment of the ＂Cen-tral Epidemic Command Center for Severe Special Infectious Pneumonia＂ on January 20, 2020. Non-profit residential long-term care facilities, which provide long-term care and accommodation for elderly and disabled residents, have also been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic.
This study selected four non-profit residential long-term care facilities as inter-view subjects and used literature analysis, secondary data analysis, and in-depth inter-views as research methods. The researchers hoped to assess the impact of COVID-19 on non-profit residential long-term care facilities, including the measures taken, im-provements in personnel and facilities, such as personnel scheduling, equipment up-dates, and resource allocation, and explore innovative adaptation measures to enhance the epidemic prevention capabilities of non-profit residential long-term care facilities.
The study found three main parts: First, strict government regulatory measures during the pandemic have led to increased training time and workload for non-profit residential long-term care facilities. Second, the manpower resources of non-profit residential long-term care facilities are even more limited during the pandemic, and they lack external support from volunteers. Third, the government has provided suffi-cient information transparency during the epidemic, establishing trust between non-profit residential long-term care facilities and the public, but epidemic prevention policies should consider the actual implementation of the institutions, and the policies need to be clearer. In addition, when facing government evaluations, non-profit resi-dential long-term care facilities will also respect the opinions of front-line staff, im-prove management methods, maintain service quality, and maintain an innovative at-titude to face external competition.
Finally, based on the above research findings, this study provides suggestions for both the government and non-profit residential long-term care facilities to serve as a reference for future epidemic prevention policies.
Keywords: COVID-19, non-profit residential long-term care facilities, elderly welfare institutions, long-term care services. | en_US |