Faced with a shortage of caregivers, the government for some time now has been casting about for a way to integrate the 170,000 home-based foreign caregivers with the locally based long-term care system.
如果讓有長照經驗的非營利組織（社福團體）來引進、雇用、管理、訓練外護，並與本國看護人力結合，輪班工作，亦即改成「人力派遣」方式提供民眾服務，民眾即可視個別需求，自由、多元地購買服務，這也是台灣長期照顧一條可行的路。