A Care-Based Innovative Networking for Active Ageing( I )

The issues of ageing society has already been an urgent question in Taiwan. This project is based on the medical and nursing research advantage of the university and aims to develop a holistic care discourse on ageing society from four different perspectives, namely medical, social, cultural and ecological. Three engaging action research sites are chosen as places to facilitate related studies, teaching and social practices. By this project, researchers expect to develop a special and significant research topic that belongs to Taipei Medical University and more importantly, a research practices that can resolve the practical problems. On the one hand, this project is keen to respond certain social concerns on ageing society. On the other hand, it hopes to reform institutional thinking and organizational inadequacy so as adapt the future society. This project includes different academic and executive units in the university and is directed by the vice president. It recruits researchers from the department of Gerontology health management, long-term care graduate program, the graduate institute of humanities in medicine, office of academic affairs, and office of students affairs in Taipei Medical University and hope to establish a new interdisciplinary institute of humanities innovation and social practices. The international experiences and issues of ageing society, Satoyama Initiative, and social studies of glocalization are incorporated in the project. The neighboring communities, Keelung’s nuan-nuan community and Hsin-Chu’s Jian-shih’s communities ranging from the urban, the outskirt of unban areas, and the rural in terms of geographical scale and ethnicity difference are chosen from a comparative study perspective. Over all, this project aims to raise the critical research questions and responding strategies in three years.