長期照顧的專業分工與性別友善

Long-term Care Specialization and Gender-friendliness

本主題主要在描述和說明，台灣現階段的人口老化情形，以及人口性別結構問題，進而說明長期照顧工作女性化和帶來的相關議題，期待透過創新長期照顧模式，協助整合專業與分工合作，透過一人多功的跨專業團隊合作模式，降低長期照顧的經濟負擔和提升長期照顧的品質，最後提出建構性別友善的長期照顧職業環境，使長期照顧能成為性別友善行業，讓兩性得以共治、共決、共同參與，讓臺灣的長期照顧工作能有更好的發展，民眾的需求得以獲得滿足。

This article is to describe and explainissuesof the aging of population and sex structure of population in currentTaiwan, and then to show long-term care work mostly by female and raisefurther related issues. It is expected that theinnovation model of long-term care can assist specialty integration and different work cooperation throughone’stransdisciplinarymulti-function to reduce economic load and improve quality in long-term care. Finally,establishing gender-friendly long-term care environment is proposedto make long-term care agender friendlyoccupation, so that co-management, co-determination, and co-participation can beshared by both genders. This can leadtobetter developmentin long-term care and thus people’s needs can be fulfilled in Taiwan.