Retirees could help in health crisisBy Hsieh Min-hsien 謝旻憲Taiwan’s long-term care system has fallen into a structural paradox. After the rollout of the “Long-term Care 2.0” program in 2017, care personnel numbers rose from 25,000 to approximately 100,000, but have stagnated over the past three years. Taiwan’s roughly 370 senior learning centers have already built capacity in health promotion and community engagement programs. Approximately 166,000 people participated in senior learning programs in 2023. The long-term care sector crisis has never been about beds, but about staff.
