In recent years, the Taiwanese government has emphasized the support for disabled elderly’s medical care and social welfare due to those people’s dramatically increasing demand for long- term care. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the care management model’s effectiveness on improving long-term care provided to disabled elders.
The research employed a quasi-experimential design. A total number of 331 disabled elderly who were over 60 years of age, and living in Taipei City’s DaAn District participated in the study. Among the elderly, 166 received the care management model’s services (as the experimental group), while the other 165 did not receive such services (as the control group). The duration of the experiment lasted for the year 2002. The independent variable was the care management model. The control variables were sociodemographic characterities of the elderly (e.g., sex, age), health conditions (e.g., the degree of physical disability of the elderly), and the availability of care resources (e.g., number of children).
