Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-12-02
Premier William Lai says that funding for the first stage of the government’s Long-term
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Care 2.0 plan is secure.
The plan is the Tsai Ing-wen administration’s program for taking care of the increasing elderly population in Taiwan.
Lai was speaking Saturday during a visit to a home for those with dementia in eastern Taiwan’s Hualien County. He said that Taiwan’s population has reached a tipping point, with the number of people over the age of 65 overtaking the number of people younger than 14. He said that Taiwan’s people must face the problems that an aging society will bring together.
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