高齡照護人才培育新方向──社會共照觀點之跨專業協作力，借鏡日本高齡照護經驗

New Directions in Elderly Care Workforce Nurturing: Cross-Professional Collaboration From a Social Co-Care Perspective, Drawing Insights From Japan’s Elderly Care Experienc

當前，全球高齡化問題日益嚴峻，促使我們重新思考高齡照護的策略與人才培育。本文旨在探討「高齡照護人才培育新方向」，特別是從「社會共照」的觀點出發，分析台灣高齡照護人力的現況與困境，強調跨專業協作在提升高齡照護品質中的重要性。文中將以日本在高齡照護領域的經驗為借鑒，探討其跨專業協作模式、培訓體系，並探討這些經驗如何為台灣的高齡照護體系提供寶貴的啟示。期望未來能提升照顧服務員學歷與能力、培養專業倫理精神與專業能力、加強跨專業協作能力、促進其自主性與專業認同感、建立完善升遷管道，最終期待照顧服務員在高齡照顧團隊中能發揮主導作用，以促進高齡照護人才的全面培育，進而提升高齡照護服務的品質。

The increasingly severe issue of societal aging worldwide has prompted the reevaluation of elderly-care strategies and related workforce development. This paper was developed to explore new directions in elderly care workforce development from the perspective of social co-care. The current state and challenges of elderly care personnel in Taiwan are analyzed, emphasizing the importance of cross-professional collaboration to enhancing elderly care quality. Cross-professional collaboration models and training systems currently used in Japan are examined with the goal of identifying how these models and systems as well as practice experiences may benefit and help improve Taiwan’s current elderly care system. The future goal is to elevate the academic qualifications and skills of care workers, foster their professional ethics and competencies, strengthen their interprofessional collaboration abilities, and improve their autonomy and professional identity. Ultimately, a clear career advancement pathway should be established to ensure care workers play a leading role within the geriatric care team.