台灣長期照護機構品質確保機制發展之趨勢

The life quality of disables is related to the quality of long-term care. In the past, the disables could not receive adequate care, because of no incentive of long-term care facilities, and less care ability of care givers. The request of care quality about long-term care facilities has been more concerned gradually. However, long-term care quality assurance system development and future development model are less concerned for the past in Taiwan. This article investigates the development of quality assurance in Taiwan and the experience of developed counties, to share to some relative public agencies and facilities managers. Those investigations are including five topics such as legislation of quality assurance, enrolled client disability assessment system, long-term care facilities accreditation, care quality indicators, and personnel qualification and training program. Five suggestions for the quality assurance in the future are integrating different legislations of long-term care facilities with quality assurance regulations; establishment of national consistency of assessment tools for the enrolled clients; unified accreditation for different type of long-term care facilities; gradually introducing other important long-term care quality indicators; and creating a national personnel qualifications system and training programs.