建構賦權式以社區為基礎的獨居老人照護模式

Building an Empowering Community-Based Care Model for the Elderly Living Alone

台灣老年人口已成快速成長的一群，隨著愈來愈多的子女必須外出工作或就學，他們的年老父母在出於自願或被迫於無奈的情況下，成為社區中的獨居老人。雖然政府動員了許多資源及努力投入了獨居老人的照護工作，然而許多的相關政策及服務是來自於專家學者或是政府的主管單位，這些服務是否真正能滿足獨居老人的需求，卻不得而知！本文之目的在於以筆者們所共同營造的台北市某社區獨居老人照顧經驗為例，運用賦權理念分亨建構獨居老人照護的過程，最後會歸納匯整社區護理人員在過程中所扮演的家色及功能。

The elderly population is the fastest growing cohort in Taiwan. With more and more children leaving have for work or study, their older parents have become the elderly who live alone whether voluntarily or otherwise. Although the government in Taiwan has put in much effort and mobilized many kinds of formal resources to provide services to those elderly who live alone, these policies and services are initiated according to discussions from experts, health professionals, or decisions from departmental managers in the government. Whether those services, which are initiated by the government, meet the needs of those elderly who live alone is unknown. The purposes of this paper are to analyze one example of community-based elderly care services based on the empowerment concept, which was initiated by the authors, and then to summarize the roles and function of community health nurses in this empowering community-based service for the elderly living alone.