A Study of Employer Background in Care Demand in Southern Taiwan

摘要

With the improvement of economic and medical hygiene, the proportion of elderly population is getting higher. Aging is a new trend in 21st century in Taiwan. With the elderly population increased, it also represented the needs of health-care will increase with the aging degree.On the other hand, due to the low birth rate in recent years, the labor force was reduced and the problem of caring the old makes people troubled. In 1992, Taiwan government promulgated the measure which responded the shortage of people for caring the disabilities in the family to open the application for the foreign care aide. Since then, the number of foreign care aide climbed high year after year. According to that, this study was focused in Taiwan and analyzed the differences of Taiwanese background variables and the need of hiring foreign care aide by T-test and ANOVA.The results show that, in the difference analysis scale, "Taiwan Background" in care needs of "take care of pressure to relieve", only marital status and income have significant differences. In welfare policy, only marital status was a significant difference.