Abstract
What this research may achieve points towards the need to progressively improve the reasonableness in establishing Social Welfare Agencies (SWAs). The service capacity of SWAs is far below the population of the level III extremely disabled. This is a serious problem. This evaluation can assist social welfare and public health departments to determine what locations to approve for establishing SWAs in the short term and plan for new SWAs more precisely, as well as rein in budgetary priorities. As an illustration, in considering the distance between SWAs and the extremely disabled, the service quality of SWAs and fairness in the planning have to be taken into account. Introducing a Service Quantity Needed-Index for SWAs (SNIS) into the current measure of approving and planning new SWAs shall assist the departments in distributing social welfare resources to areas most in need of help. In addition, using the modified data to recalculate SNIS can examine needs regularly. Employing basic statistical areas for short-term applications in Taipei City SWA projects, considering the distance between SWAs and the extremely disabled, the agencies’ service quality and fairness in the planning of SWAs need to receive more attention. Previous research mostly employed straight-line distances rather than road distances. To a certain extent, this overlooked the actual capacity of roads as well as led to some degree of discrepancies in evaluations. This essay focuses on calculating SNIS, mainly towards guiding the establishment of facilities and concretely proposing how to optimize their locations. Future research can add in needs at that time in accordance with current evaluation results to propose plans to optimize the locations, or maybe integrate weights of disability to adjust multiple requirements of SWAs.
Highlights
The degree of aging of Taipei City is even more apparent than in other developed nations
This essay focuses on calculating Service Quantity Needed-Index for Social Welfare Agencies (SWAs) (SNIS), which is mainly towards guiding the establishment of facilities and concretely proposing how to optimize their locations
Employing spatial location information regarding SWAs, integrating other data related to the agencies and putting together data concerned of the groups in need, currently and in the future 5–10 years, we evaluated the spatial accessibility of facilities for public service and social service, making use of the current 97 agencies, employing the spatial methods
Summary
The degree of aging (inhabitants 65 years old or above) of Taipei City is even more apparent than in other developed nations. The total number of elderly care centers in Taipei City is far below the needs of the elderly population. Yuan in 1997 [1], people eligible for an ID paper for the disabled include the visually disabled, disabled in hearing functions, balance functions, voice or language functions, limbs disabled, mentally disabled, and those whose important organs have lost function. Those with disfigured complexions, the vegetative, dementia patients, autism patients, Sustainability 2021, 13, 2665.
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