高齡化及少子女化衝擊下的健康照護

Under the challenge of aging and low fertility, health prevention should be emphasized to
each people in order to reduce medical and long term care expenditure and burden in Taiwan.
Health prevention not only can get rid of illness, decrease medical expenditure, but also increase
quality of life. A healthy community can encourage more volunteers and informal care
givers on the works of health care, and promote psychological and social health of frail persons.
For creating a healthy community environment, health prevention should start from personal,
family, community, technology and housing policy. For setting up a healthy community,
five aspects should be boosted as below：1) To promote healthy life style in order to decrease
the incidence of chronic illness, 2) To maintain aged people’s autonomy and independent by the promotion of self care and self management, 3) To create intergenerational exchange in
order to improve intergenerational relations and care-giving, 4) To renovate house facilities
and create aged-friendly environment, 5) To supply client-oriented health care.