Barthel too stingy? There were close to 100,000 foreign care-givers in Taiwan in the year 2000, but their number has since risen to 180,000.
剛開始因需求不高，只有幾百人，評量標準很彈性、寬鬆，只要醫院、診所醫師認定病患自理生活能力不足，需要人照顧，就可以憑醫師診斷書向勞委會申請，並不需要巴氏量表。引爆點：「巴氏量表」太嚴？