His daughter, having nowhere else to turn, approached the FWE. Wu Yu-chin was shocked. Slowly she came around to agreeing with a suggestion made by Taipei Bureau of Social Affairs director Chen Chu that the federation take up the responsibility for finding missing elderly persons. In late 1996, it did just that.
吳玉琴非常震驚，遂接受當時台北市社會局局長陳菊的建議，從一九九六年底開始，由老盟來負起老人協尋者的重任，其後服務對象更擴及智障者及精神病患。