社區好厝邊──高雄市樂齡長照主題圖書館

Good Neighbor in the Community: Active Aging and Long-term Care Themed Library in Kaohsiung City

高雄市於2018年完成一區一圖的城市閱讀藍圖，每一行政區至少有一座圖書館，就近提供居民圖書資源與閱覽空間。同年，高雄市也邁入高齡化社會，2025年亦將進入超高齡化社會。鑒於高齡化社會的來臨，公共圖書館必須思考如何透過適切服務，帶領民眾認識高齡議題，支持高齡人口的閱讀及資訊需求，提升健康與延緩失智失能，促進活躍老化，打造高齡友善社會，亦是呼應SDGs所倡議的「永續城市與社區」等目標。
高雄市立圖書館與小港醫院、育英醫護管理專科學校合作打造草衙分館為高雄市首座「樂齡長照主題圖書館」，並響應SDGs多項目標，在探究既有服務面向上歸納五項樂齡服務擴散性不足的因素為：「在地需求」、「本位主義」、「單一管道」、「淺碟主義」及「制式主義」。透過問題診斷與可行性分析提出五大對應策略：「回應需求」、「群體合作」、「多元傳播」、「深耕感動」及「世代共融」。透過建置高雄市首座「樂齡長照主題圖書館」及維運過程中，完成五大項推動成效與成果「樂齡硬體建置」、「無圍牆的人生」、「便利宣導」、「深化心靈療癒」及「青銀互動」。此公私協力的資源整合方案榮獲衛生福利部「共老獎」以及教育部第二屆「圖書館事業貢獻獎―標竿圖書館獎」殊榮，成為地方公共圖書館經營成效之標竿楷模。

In 2018, Kaohsiung City completed a“one district, one library＂urban reading blueprint, ensuring at least one library in each administrative district to provide nearby residents with book resources and reading spaces. In the same year, Kaohsiung City entered the category of the aging society.
Given the vast area of Kaohsiung City and the diverse lifestyles of urban and rural elders, and with the expectation of becoming a super-aged society by 2025, public libraries must consider how to offer appropriate services to lead society in understanding aging issues, support the reading and information needs of the elderly population, improve health and delay dementia and disability, promote active aging, and create an age-friendly society. This also aligns with the SDGs´goal of“Sustainable Cities and Communities.＂
Kaohsiung Public Library in collaboration with Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital and Yuh Ing Junior College of Health Care, transformed the Caoya Branch Library into Kaohsiung City´s first“Active Aging and Long-term Care Themed Library,＂responding to multiple SDG targets. In examining existing services, five factors limiting the quality of elderly services were identified:“local needs,＂“parochialism,＂“single channel,＂“superficiality,＂and“rigidity.＂
Correspondingly, through problem diagnosis and feasibility analysis, five strategies were developed:“responding to needs,＂“group cooperation,＂“diverse dissemination,＂“cultivation of emotional engagement,＂and“intergenerational integration.＂Through these strategies, the establishment and operation of Kaohsiung City's first“Active Aging and Long-term Care Themed Library＂have achieved five key outcomes:“elderly-friendly hardware installation,＂“health care alliance,＂“digital promotion,＂“deepening spiritual healing,＂and“youth-elderly interaction.＂Based on these achievements of collaboration, Caoya Branch Library won the“Aging Together Award＂from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the“Model Library Award＂at“the 2nd Ministry of Education Library Contribution Awards, becoming a benchmark model for local public libraries.