The educational aims of Department of Long-Term Care are to cultivate long-term care service, administrative and management professionals with professional long-term care competence and institutional management, policy planning and industrial development abilities. It is to meet nationals’ needs for new-generation health care services by combining the overall development direction for the country’s long-term care policy and responding to domestic and foreign societies’ needs derived from extended longevity and population aging. The development priorities of the Department are as follows:

1. Holistic education that emphasizes on policy planning, insurance practice, institutional management and services of long-term care.
2. Provide a course design that emphasizes on theory and practice equally, strengthen the cultivation of long-term care professionals
3. Cultivate students with three professional abilities: care management, institutional management and service management.
4. A two-stage internship mechanism: Professional Internship (I) at Year 2 and Professional Internship (II) at Year 4. ; through the operation of industrial practice, improve management practice skills and cross-cutting integration capabilities of long-term care.
5. Improve the standards of long-term care research and development to response to the advent of an aging society, and develop a long-term care industry business model with offshore island characteristics and international exchanges.