Elevate senior care quality and create outstanding care environment

Located in Sanxia, New Taipei City, Taipei Veterans Home (TVH) houses over 500 vulnerable or solitary veterans, half of whom are already incapacitated or bedridden and require specialists’ care and maintenance. The home-care bed that bedridden elders sleep on are over 15 years of age, now appear to be shaky with damaged hand controllers, arm rails or brakes, incurring risks on the users and causing extra burden on the caregiver.
Chang Yung-Fa Charity Foundation sent staff to inspect the situation and learned that other than new home-care beds, the TVH has other needs. The TVH also offers hospice care to veterans at the end of life and requires three-in-one physiological measurement devices so that the staff can dispense medication in a timely manner to relieve symptoms. At the moment, the TVH has only one such device which is not enough. Additionally, the elders often leave behind precious personal collectibles after passing away including all sorts of photos, garments, everyday objects which are all memorable, nostalgic and of certain eras. It’s a shame that they are not put on display in an exhibition space to be seen in their entirety.
As such, the Foundation donated NT$600,000 to fund 22 home-care beds and one three-in-one physiological measurement device to improve the care quality and reduce burden on the front-line caregivers, as well as setting up a wall to display veterans’ memorial artifacts and naming it “The corridor of time: the honorable veterans” to highlight their contribution to the country.
The Foundation chairman Wu Jing-Ming attended the donation ceremony in person and delivered these Christmas presents to the veterans to express his gratitude and care for them. Veterans Affairs Council Minister Feng Shih-Kuan thanked the Foundation especially for its long-standing support for the veterans and to help create a safe care environment and reduce the caregiver’s burden and occupational injuries. “The artifact display wall also helps the elder’s reminiscence over their past military career and pass on the veterans’ culture and spirit.