Actively Revitalize Assets to Cooperate with Long-Term Care in Forward-Looking Infrastructure Development Program

Property Sector Xu Huan Shang

The one-day care in one school district policy under the “Plan for Construction of Long-Term Care Health and Welfare Base of Preparation for Public Service Base in Forward-Looking Infrastructure Development Program” has been implemented by Changhua Management Office, which has actively cooperated with the Central Government and the Changhua County Government. We used to say “Have plenty of descendants” in the past to describe an elderly person who was so blessed; however, with the population aging, the family image of the future will be likely to appear as a bunch of elderly people instead of children and grandchildren. Our family structure and intergenerational relationships will generate a significant impact. Not only the young people will have to take care of the elderly, but the elderly may have to take care of the “older” elderly people at home as well in the future family. Therefore, supportive care services will become more important. With respect to caring for older adults, family members are mainly responsible for taking care of the elderly, while foreign caregivers have increasingly become an indispensable role in caring for the elderly. Accordingly, the country needs to develop a sound social care system to mitigate the family’s care burden.

Changhua County Government is planning to build the “Changhua City Innovative and Comprehensive Multifunctional Health and Welfare Building” currently, which will materialize the Long-Term Care 2.0 Policy planned by the government.

The planned building site will be located on the two state-owned lands, which are Lot No. 1059 & 1061, Yanhe Section, Changhua City, abandoned water conservation ditches before restructuring in 2014. It is a complete building site allocated after the Changhua City Urban Reconsolidation and Implementation by the Private Sector, the land use district is a “residential area”, and it was originally planned to be reserved for value-added or other plans for development and utilization in the future. It is overgrown with weeds at present because it remains idle and undeveloped, leading to the need to cope with the letter of accusation from the Environmental Protection Bureau of the county government, which is deemed a waste of manpower as well as a waste of management and maintenance funds.

Among all the lands, Lot No. 1061, Yanhe Section, Changhua City, was planned to be included in the land used for social housing purposes in Phase 2 (2021-2024) in Changhua County by the Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior in 2020. Changhua County Government, in 2021, requested the Construction and Planning Agency’s approval of appropriation of the state-owned Lot No. 1059 & 1061, Yanhe Section, Changhua City with Compensation for the cooperation with the Phase 3 through Phase 5 Projects of Urban-Rural Development “Plan for Construction of Long-Term Care Health and Welfare Base of Preparation for Public Service Base in Forward-Looking Infrastructure Development Program” handled by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

Considering the difficulty in obtaining large-scale lands for public construction and cooperation with the central government’s policy objectives, this Office provides the public with a one-stop public service base. It is agreed in principle to cooperate with the Changhua County Government in arranging the compensated appropriations of the foregoing two state-owned lands in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 3, Article 23 of the Irrigation Act. The Changhua County Government plans to set up community-based long-term care multi-functional service centers, long-term care case management centers, infant care centers pertaining to social welfare and maternal and child services, child-parent centers, and other maternal and child health venues, and deploy community mental health and social safety net and other service networks to cooperate with the second phase of the central social safety net plan policy, and professional medical services will be stationed on-site.

In response to the public construction needs of the central and local governments, this Office adheres to the premise of not affecting the irrigation and water conservancy in the past period of the Irrigation Association, viewing and checking the existing “Regulations for Revenue Activation in Non-Enterprise-Use Real Estate of Irrigation and Water Conservancy”, it is found that for the non-enterprise-use land needing not to be used for irrigation and water conservancy any longer, because this Office is a nonprofit organization, and to avoid such lands’ management and maintenance costs, as well as considering that the total population structure is aging rapidly, which leads to an increase in the number of people in need of long-term care simultaneously, we agree to release and cooperate with the Executive Yuan to promote long-term care service policies to achieve preventive healthcare, active aging, slowing down incapacitation, promoting the health and well-being of the elderly, and improving the quality of life of the elderly; accordingly, the local government will arrange the compensated appropriations to solve the difficulty of land acquisition for long-term care institutions. It is believed that the multi-target community-based support services will be provided after the completion of the construction to enable the elderly to live a healthy and happy life with dignity, reducing the pressure of family care; thus, the children at work can care for the elderly with peace of mind as a result, and thereby meeting the local people’s needs for long-term care.

⇒Existing Circumstances of Lot No. 1061, Yanhe Section, Changhua City

⇒Existing Circumstances of Lot No. 1059, Yanhe Section, Changhua City