自立支援照顧的臺灣實踐

Self-supporting Care for Taiwan's Practice

隨著科技進步、醫藥發達，出生率及死亡率逐年降低，臺灣老年人口的比例正大幅增加，失智人口數逐年攀升，失能者的臥床時間也不見改善，消耗大量的醫療及社會資源，高齡化社會已然成為重大議題，所產生的現象與問題也逐漸浮現。如何維護高齡生活的品質與尊嚴，以及訂定健全的社會福利和健康政策已刻不容緩。面對諸多挑戰，雲林縣老人福利保護協會的執行長林金立先生前往日本取經，率先引進「自立支援照顧」模式，堅持不約束、不尿布、不臥床的「三不原則」，以期改善傳統照顧模式下產生的疑難雜症，讓長輩得以老有所安。

With the new technology and medical science advances, the birth and mortality drops year by year which brings the proportion of 'the population with dementia' in Taiwan increasing and the duration of the disability stay on bed keep remaining. This situation has been already consuming lots of medical and social resources. Aging society has become a major issue, and the problems caused by the situation gradually emerging. It's urgent to find the way keeping the qualities and dignities of elder's life and establishing a full function of social welfare and health policy. Rising to the occasion, Mr. Lin Jin-Li, the CEO of Senior Citizens Welfare and Protection Association of Yunlin Country, went to Japan and took the lead in introducing 'self-supporting care' model with three principles 'non-restraint, non-diaper and non-bedridden' to improve all kinds of problems we met in traditional care model, so that elder will be set into rest.