LONG-TERM CARE PLAN 2.0 STARTS PILOT OPERATION|長照2.0試辦計劃 9縣巿昨天率先上路

The long-term care 2.0 plan officially began its pilot in 9 counties and cities yesterday. If all goes well, the plan will be launched nationwide by this coming January. To tackle the problem of manpower shortage, which currently sees a gap of 4,500 to 12,000 people, the Ministry of Welfare plans to allocate 1000 alternative military servicemen to work at long term care centers next year. The government is also looking into instituting a new category of alternative military service that is entirely dedicated to long-term care. The 70-year-old Mrs. Chang is often alone and lonely at home when her grandkids go to works or schools. Several months ago she went to Xinzhuang District and experienced a Type-A long-term care institution promoted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. ==CHANG YU-CHAN, Long-term Care Resident== Here has more people! Friends, getting to know friends. The entertaining activities here are good. Taiwan has nine long-term care institutions like this, they are rated as Types A, B and C. Type-A is a community-oriented center with services integrated as one. Type B is a combined care service center. And type C is a lane alley long-term care station. During the pilot period, the government plans to run the type A, B and C in the areas with more resources, while have types B and C for the areas with fewer resources. ==LIN CHUAN, Premier== Starting the end of this year, we will have pilot long-term care services at some locations. Next year we hope the scheme will be realized in every city and county. However, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said, is Taiwan's long-term care a social insurance or social welfare? It should be clearly stated. ==KO WEN-JE, Taipei City Mayor== If it is a social insurance, the coverage cannot be that many. If it is social welfare, the premium cannot be that low. Therefore, there is no free lunch in the world. ==LIN TZOU-YIEN, Minister of Health Welfare Minister== Our Long-term Care Policy V2.0 is enforced by tax revenues. It is an integration type of service. It integrates social welfare and medical services, and provides continuous services. Therefore, we still need to have user pays, shares partial charge. The Ministry of Health Welfare emphasized, they will raise the pays for care attendants, in order to attract more young people working at long-term care centers. The policy is facing a shortage of hands. Next year there will be one thousand more staff and alternative military service men to be dispatched to every long-term care institution. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN 70歲的張奶奶，平時白天兒孫都去上班上學，只剩她一個人在家，孤單又寂寞，幾個月前她來到新莊區體驗衛福部推動的A級長照服務機構。 ==長照長者 張玉盞== 這裡算是比較多人啊 朋友啊 認識朋友 這裡的娛樂活動算很好啦 其實類似這樣的長照服務機購，全台共有九個縣市參與試辦，分成ABC三級服務據點，包括A級社區整合服務中心、B級複合型服務中心，以及C級巷弄長照站；資源豐富的地區、試辦ABC模式；資源不足的地區、則是試辦BC模式。 ==行政院長 林全== 今年底開始就會 有試點的辦理 然後到明年我們就希望 能在每個縣市都能夠逐步落實 不過台北市長柯文哲則是認為，台灣的長照到底是社會保險、還是社會福利，應該要講清楚。 ==台北市長 柯文哲== 社會保險的話就沒有保那麼多 社會福利的話 保費沒有那麼低的 所以天下沒有白吃的午餐啦 ==衛福部長 林奏延 我們的長照2.0是用稅收制 它是一個整合型 就是一個整合我們的社福 跟我們的醫療 整合在一起 做這個連續性的服務 所以 但是我們還是 使用者還是要做 一部分的負擔 這樣 衛福部強調，一定會提高照服員薪資，吸引年輕人投入長照事業，至於人力缺口，除了明年已確定增加1千名、一般替代役，分發到長照機構。 記者 綜合報導