According to a study carried out by the Bureau of Social Affairs at the Ministry of Interior at the end of 1997, there are 597 unregistered nursing homes in Taiwan, which could hold 18,000 residents but now hold only 9000.
根據民國八十六年底社會司的普查，未立案機構有五百九十七家，可收容一萬八千餘床，實際收容數為九千多床。