Despite the EMBELLISHMENT of how well set-up Long-Term Care 2.0 is, based off of DDP and the government’s, claims here…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Getting a Spot is Next to Impossible, the Assistance Funds, Even Harder, the Burdens of Finances, No Elevators at Home, the Enormous Psychological Pressures of the Caretakers, the Taiwan Association of Family Caregivers: the Bombs, Waiting to Explode, at Any Time
look at ALL that Long-Term Care 2.0 promised…found online

There’d been a prevalence of long-term care murders, although the government provided the long-term care provisions, but for the families of the severely ill, it’s, of no use. They are in desperate need of residential type care, but, the beds are next to impossible to get in both Taipei and Hsinbei Cities. And, as the items of caretaking started stacking up, when the body can no longer manage, and you can’t get any placement or that the placement is taking as long as a year, for the families, this is, that final, straw.
The husband of Ms. Huang who is in her forties, had a stroke during the pandemic, and was hospitalized, and the husband is in a comatose, with the feeding tubes, the ventilators, and the catheters to keep on living, and, she was pushed to shoulder the responsibilities of the “caregiver.”
After her husband finished the hospital stay, she’d originally wanted to bring him home to care, and, after evaluating the needed resources of hiring a nurse’s aide, purchasing of the ventilator, electric bed, plus, she lives in the old apartment without the elevators, going up and down is a huge problem, with nobody else to help her out, she can only place her husband in a care facility. But, there’s no vacancy in the facilities in both Taipei AND Hsinbei Cities, she’d called every one of the facilities, and, either that her husband couldn’t qualify for the status of becoming a resident, or that the cost is, too high beyond what she could afford.
And, the major stresses in her life, caused Ms. Huang to fall ill too, her adenomyosis, plus her chocolate cysts, the gynecologist advised that she get a hysterectomy, but she’d worried that if she is hospitalized, nobody is left to care for her husband, she can only use the medications instead, but it’d caused her body to change severely, depression, insomnia, gaining weight, hair loss, the assortment of pressures caused her to stress.
The services of Long-Term Care 2.0, the breather programs, the professional caretakers, the transportation means, the setting up of a handicap space for living, Ms. Huang can’t find useful.
and yet, this is, what, the REALITY looks, like! photo from online, not to mention the under qualified staff, the lacking in the equipments to offer the proper and needed cares to the residents, and many, many, M-A-N-Y more, problems! Photo from online

She believed, that the government should encourage the families of those with severe conditions to place their loved ones in a long-term care facility, after her husband fell ill, she’d come face to face with not being able to find him a bedspace in the home, due to how they have property, the assistance funding can’t be allotted to them, the costs increased, adding to the financial burdens, there’s no elevator where she lives, which made caring for him at home impossible, and even IF there’s the programs of Long-Term Care 2.0, it can’t help her with what she’d needed.
And so, this still just showed, how long-term care 2.0 worked only well in THEORY, but NOT application, I mean, this woman is clearly in need of the help, but, because of all those fine prints of those who are lower income, yada, yada, yada, are priorities of the long-term care 2.0 programs, she still can’t get the needed care for her husband, and this is only ONE of the cases, and god knows how many tens of thousands of cases like hers are on this island right now, and so, the government’s boasting on how well set up, how up and running Long-Term Care 2.0 is, is still, full of SHIT!
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