In addition, roughly 150,000 spouses from mainland China have obtained permanent resident certificates that permit them to work in Taiwan, and many of them work as caregivers, so there is no shortage of caregiver manpower in Taiwan. The problem resides in high turnover and the large number of people who leave the field altogether.
如再加計已取得長期居留證、可在台工作的大陸配偶約有 15 萬人，其中不少人亦擔任看護，台灣的看護人力問題不在不足，而在流動率與流失率過高。