Decision Analyses of Medical Resources for Disabled Elderly Home Care: The Hyper Aged District in Taiwan

Facing the fastest ageing fact, Taiwan implements long term care (LTC) program to lessen the load of some demanded home-care disabled-elderly-family. However, the provided medical resources, including the physician, nurse and physiotherapist (PT) would never catch up to the demands for home care. Using Linear Programming to model the current and the alternative home care medical demand-supply situations, it provides the decision maker with a deep insight of the resource allocation problem. The scenario includes three hospitals around the Meinong District in Kaohsiung to be the medical givers. Study shows that current medical resources are insufficient. PT and nurses are in serious shortage. The optimal solution of (physician, nurse, PT) is (15, 27, 22). Elderly under the age of 65 and local home care facilities are excluded in this study.