Similarly, by the definition of the World Health Organization, Taiwan has been an aging society since
1993. As the population keeps growing older, persons 65 years of age or older increased from 7.09% of the total population in 1993 to 11.12% in 2012 (Ministry of the Interior, 2012a), and it is estimated by the Council for Economic Planning and Development (2002) that it will reach 20.10% in 2014 and 39.40% in 2060. The government of Taiwan has implemented the National Health Insurance program since 1995 to meet the medical care needs of people of all ages in Taiwan (Bureau of National Health Insurance, 1995). However, the program only covered acute hospital care and clinical visits. As people aged, medical care was no longer the only need of older adults; the long-term care and social welfare needs received growing attention.