Wu Yu-chin, general secretary of the League of Welfare Improvement for Older People, states that even before the quake, the stricken areas in central Taiwan lacked organized welfare services. But after the disaster, even those informal community support networks which had existed broke down.
老人福利推動聯盟秘書長吳玉琴指出，中部災區原本就缺乏機構、系統式的福利服務體系，震災之後，連原有的非正式社區支援網絡都破壞了。