Short-term Elder Care Technical Training Program

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
With the global population rapidly aging, the
medical and health industries, both national
and international, view improving the quality
of long-term and geriatric care personnel as a
top priority. To meet demand, the long-term
care industry must provide a large number of
personnel for direct and indirect long-term
care. To improve the quality of such care,
professional, semi-professional and
non-professional workers all need education,
periodic on-the-job training and continuing
education. With countries around the world
facing a shortage of professional long-term
care personnel, they must supplement their existing workforce through international recruitment, as
well as develop training programs that can serve as a pipeline for producing long-term care
professional personnel.

To cultivate qualified professional Indonesian caregivers, this program offers students a chance to
develop skills through practical clinical work experience. Course content will integrate general
features of Taiwanese elder care practice with techniques for patients with particular diseases, in
cooperation with reputable institutions in Taiwan. The program will prepare trainees for domestic or
international employment. It will also prepare them to train other Indonesian care workers,
practitioners and professionals interested in developing the country’s domestic long-term care
industry, as well as prepare them to become leaders in promoting advanced elder care techniques
worldwide.

APPLICATION PERIOD: March 2018 to December 2018 (1-month course + 9-month

internship).
 ELIGIBILITY: Indonesian students, instructors, health care professionals in nursing and healthcare
related fields.

CAPACITY: 25-50 people (50 applicants maximum)

ADMISSIONS CRITERIA:
Applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible:
1. Applicants cannot have R.O.C (Taiwan) nationality or Overseas Chinese status. Also, applicants
must pass an oral exam to assess their English proficiency and provide a Chinese language
proficiency certificate (TOCFL Level 2 or above).
2. Applicants must prepare recommendation letters from their training institution or institutional
employer.
3. Applicants must have professional nursing background and practical experience.

LECTURE LANGUAGE: Lectures in English. Applicants will be required to use Chinese when
they start their internship.

FEES: Tuition fees, airfare, insurance, room and board, airport pick-up, and internship training costs
are all covered, and students will receive the paid internship of NT$20,000 dollars / per month for a
duration of nine months. Students must pay local fees for their physical examination and visa-related
fees themselves.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: The program will focus on practical courses, with 10% theory; 15%
practical course instruction; 75% internship course.
Schedule (Tentative)

Time Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Morning Arrive in Taiwan Home Safety Guidance for Pain Assessment & Pain Geriatric Pharmacy and Care
for Age-related Diseases
9:00-12:00 Preventing Falling of Management for the Elderly

Elderly

Introduction to Communicating with Elderly Mental and Spiritual Infectious Disease Control
Elders, Assessment, & and Prevention, Improving
Taiwan’s Care Assessment and
Giving Patients’ Environmental Sanitation
 Long-term Care Instructions, and practice practice

Environment
Visiting Long-term Emergency Treatment and Bedsore and Wound Care, Dementia Care
Care Institutions!
Practices for Elders practice

Behavior and Safe Transfer and Elderly Respiratory Care Designing Activities for the
Elderly
Culture of the Elderly Roll-over skills and and practice

practice

Elderly Life Care and Elderly Nutrition & Tube Care for the Elderly Discussion of Problems and

practice Feeding, and practice and practice Scenarios

Afternoon Chinese class Chinese class Chinese class Chinese class

14:00-17:00

** The first month will consist of lectures and skills training at the school. Course schedule and classrooms will be
revised to reflect actual course arrangements. The following nine months will consist of an internship working in a
long-term care organization.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Taiwan-Indonesia Healthcare Education Center (Indonesia)
Project Manager Novie
TEL:+6208112-644-311
Address: Gedung Administrasi KH. Sudjak RS. PKU Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Jl. Bhayangkara, Yogyakarta, 55261,
Indonesia
Email: tihec.jogja@gmail.com

Contact Information
Taiwan-Indonesia Healthcare Education Center (Taiwan)
Project Manager Michelle Lo
TEL:886-2-2822-7101 ext.2732
Address: No.365, Ming-te Road, Beitou Disctrict, Taipei 11219, Taiwan. R.O.C
Email: michelle@ntunhs.edu.tw