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When people are sick and enter the hospital, after treatment, eventually they will return to home and communities to live. Some people will facing changes in family roles and care problems when they return home from the hospital. In 2017, the Ministry of Health and Welfare began to handle the "Transferring Long-Term Care 2.0 Discharge Preparation Friendly Hospital Rewards Program", hoping that patients can be evaluated in the hospital and receive some welfare resources before discharge, reduce the inconvenience and anxiety of patients and their families after returning home, so that long-term care resources can be seen and used. The plan for preparing to transfer to long-term care service after discharge from hospital has combined the cooperation of the social department, the hospital and the health department. The plan has been running for 4 years so far. This study analyzes the operation status, function, predicament and influencing factors of the plan, as well as the role of medical social workers. I hope that from the perspective of medical social workers, we can understand the system of the transition from hospital discharge preparation services to long-term care services. This study uses qualitative research, purposive sampling, and semi-structured in-depth interviews with 8 social workers who are actually engaged in discharge preparation services in the hospital. The research conclusions are as follows: First, the medical social worker part: (1) The medical social worker education is insufficient; (2) The medical social worker support system is insufficient. Second, the part of preparation services for discharge: (1) Long-term care service information is not popular; (2) Long-term care knowledge needs to be updated on a rolling basis. Third, the community network part: (1) There are great differences in the service mechanisms of the social department and the health department in different regions; (2) there are few long-term care related contact meetings. Fourth, the policy part: (1) The service group has not been extended; (2) The long-term care evaluation should return to the physiological evaluation. According to the conclusions of the study, this study puts suggestions: (1) Improve the education of medical social workers on discharge preparation; (2) Comprehensively strengthen the publicity and education of long-term care services; (3) Establish guidelines for medical social workers to prepare for discharge; (4) ) Long-term care evaluation returns to physiological evaluation; (5) Strengthen the powers and responsibilities of community long-term care managers; (6) Establish a tripartite communication channel between the social department, the health department and hospital ; (7) Develop diverse and heterogeneous long-term care services .
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