邁向超高齡社會的安老照顧環境規劃-- 以環境賦能為目標

Older Adults’ Care Environmental Planning for Super-aged Society – Realization of the Goal of Environmental Empowerment

臺灣高齡人口的照顧問題在少子化、家庭結構小規模化與人口平均壽命延長的趨勢下，已成為一個嚴峻的「外部性」問題，影響公共資源的配置。優先照顧83.5%的健康與亞健康高齡者，以「環境賦能」作為資源分配及照顧的目標，為本文主要論述。採取事前積極介入的模式，延長高齡者獨立生活的能力，為臺灣迅即邁入超高齡社會之安老照顧環境規劃之重要主張。本文最後並提出邁向環境賦能之安老照顧環境規劃建議，期透過領域間的核心理論整合、觀念應用與政策目標的調整，因地制宜，規劃出符合高齡者「日常生活活動範圍」之在地安老環境，落實超高齡社會之環境賦能安老照顧目標。

 

With the trend of fewer children, smaller family structure and longer life expectancy, the care of the elderly population in Taiwan has become a serious “external problem”, which affects the allocation of public resources. This paper mainly discusses the concept of “environmental empowerment” as being the goal of resource allocation and older adults care, which gives priority to 83.5% of the healthy and sub-healthy elderly people. Adopting proactive intervention mode to extend the ability of older adults to live independently is an important proposition of older adults’ care environmental planning for Taiwan’s rapidly approaching super-aged society. Finally, the paper puts forward suggestions for older adults’ care environmental planning, which aims to achieve the goal of environmental empowerment. It is expected that, through the integration of core theories, the application of concepts and the adjustment of policy objectives, an environment which is adapted to older adults’ “daily life and activities range” can be built according to local conditions, so as to realize the goal of environmental empowerment for older adults care in the super-aged society.