※Cultivation goals
The bachelor’s degree program of the Department aims to cultivate long-term care practice professionals who meet the needs of industrial practice and possess interdisciplinary collaboration knowledge and diverse abilities. The curriculum design is career-oriented, focuses on pragmatism and practical application, and promotes the cultivation philosophy of learning by doing, thus students can seamlessly integrate with the industry and meet future long-term care policy development and industry needs.
※Development features
The development of this bachelor’s degree program is characterized by the two concepts of caregiving and caring. Interactions among dimensions such as the knowledge dimension (professional knowledge and care skills), affective dimension (emotional, ethical, and moral dimensions), industrial dimension (long-term care policy), and internationalization and environmental dimensions (situation/environment, individual/system, family/household, community/care recipient) form the core elements that allow for the goal of cultivating diversified talents in long-term care to be achieved.
※Educational features
The development of this program is characterized by the two concepts of caregiving and caring, and they help students to establish linkages and make contributions pertaining to education, training, and academic research in the field of long-term care. The program aims to establish the optimal care and management for long-term care recipients and achieve the educational mission and task of improving or maintaining the health functions of care recipients, enhancing the lives and dignity of care recipients, and reducing the disability level or dependence of long-term care recipients.
※Educational goals
- To promote the participation of students in the implementation of policies and systems related to long-term care.
- To cultivate in students the ability to implement and apply long-term care management and institutional monitoring.
- To cultivate in students the ability to perform long-term care assessments and facilitate the construction of a long-term care service system.
- To cultivate in students professional care skills such as preventive, supportive, and protective long-term care.
※Core competencies
- Ability to apply acquired knowledge in long-term care practice.
- Communication and teamwork skills.
- Professional ethics and care for the society.
- Local and international perspectives.
- Long-term care technology application and knowledge.
- Lifelong self-learning ability.
※Curriculum planning
In response to the needs of the future job market, this program is a professional course that is structured according to the learning stage of students. It includes general education, foundational and core courses, and elective courses (total of 72 course credits). The indicators that focus on developing students’ professional competencies include the ability to apply knowledge in long-term care practice, professional ethics and care for the society, communication and teamwork ability, lifelong self-learning ability, and local and international perspectives. Moreover, students can choose suitable professional elective modules that suit their career plans and personal interests; this allows for the application, development, and cultivation of diversified talents that meet the needs of the long-term care market.
※Prospects after graduation
(1) Advanced studies:
Students who graduate from this bachelor’s degree program can apply to study in the master’s degree program of the Department (graduate school) or the programs offered by other relevant local or overseas graduate schools. Graduates with excellent academic performance may be admitted to the master’s degree program of the department (graduate school) through screening and recommendation.
(2) Employment:
- Graduates may serve as long-term care practitioners in various long-term care service systems or transition units (institutions, communities, homes, long-term care management centers, dementia care service institutions, and non-profit organizations).
- Graduates may serve as administrative management or case management personnel within various long-term care service systems or transition units (institutions, communities, homes, long-term care management centers, dementia care service institutions, and non-profit organizations).
- Graduates may serve as officers or personnel of the government and in private long-term care institutions or older adult–related organizations.
- Graduates may serve as practitioners or managers in long-term care services or consulting companies.
- Graduates may serve as personnel or managers who focus on the development of long-term care services, including telehealth, financial planning, creative space planning, design and marketing of long-term assistive devices, health care products, leisure for older adults, health promotion program planning and management, health management of special populations, and management of daily life care.