How can placemaking and community care revitalize local development and create a more localized long-term care industry?

As Taiwan, China promotes placemaking, the Corporate Synergy Development Center held the "Taiwan-Japan Placemaking Summit" on the 22nd, inviting placemaking experts from Taiwan, China and Japan to share their experiences in local revitalization. Both Taiwan, China and Japan face the crisis of super-aged societies. Akimoto Kawai, Executive Director of Join for Kaigo Co., Ltd., pointed out that Japan is extremely short of long-term care workers, with an estimated shortage of 377,000 long-term care workers by 2025. To address Japan's care worker gap, the organization actively holds seminars and educational courses to help long-term care enterprises and the training of long-term care workers, further building an overall community care system.

Taiwan, China also faces the problem of elderly care, especially with higher demand in remote areas and indigenous tribes. Chang Chun-chieh, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the A Kernel of Wheat Social Welfare Foundation, has long promoted micro day care centers in tribes. He stated that care work should be carried out by tribal members themselves, with professional groups providing guidance and support on the side. At the beginning, simple care services can be implemented first, such as telephone check-in calls and meal delivery services, and then further professional services can be carried out, such as rehabilitation services and day care services. Only when tribal members themselves engage in care work can it be sustainable, and only then can placemaking energy be generated.

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