Chen Show-mei, who works in the Bureau of Health, points out that the bureau once encouraged the government to increase the number of beds allotted to chronically ill patients. Because the elderly population was rapidly growing and health-care costs were rocketing, they advised a new focus on encouraging the establishment of nursing homes.
衛生署醫政處陳秀玫指出，過去衛生署曾鼓勵醫院增設慢性病床，因高齡人口快速增加，醫療成本過高，隨即修正為補助硬體設施、鼓勵增設護理之家。