Department of Senior Citizen Service Management

The Focus and Feature of Development

In order to meet the market demand, the Department was established in 2009 to train students with the scientific spirit, enthusiasm for services and professional skills, and encourage them to embrace humane care through the professional courses that cover core care and senior citizen service management. With the structural changes in the growing elderly population and the declining birth rate, issues of the elders have attracted worldwide attention and made the elderly care become the mainstream of the health care market.

The Department hopes to be a pioneer in the education and the practice of senior citizen service management to promote the planning for long-term care policies.

Principles of the Department: we educate and train personnel for foundation professional services and conduct related researches.

1. Elderly issues involve in various topics as personal experiences and the social process of aging population, thus Senior Citizen Service Management is also a technology-integrated science to implement related knowledge for teaching and researches.
2. By hiring teachers with outstanding experiences, the Department recruits various students who are interested in gerontology, working with the elders and providing related services with enthusiasm and empathy.

Teaching Environment and Curriculum

Specialty of the Department: pragmatic services

1. Dual knowledge of elderly care and service management.
2. The diverse curriculum and the respect for students’ interests, aptitudes, goals and abilities.
3. The focus of both theory and practice.
4. The university-academia partnership is constructed with all health care systems and other long-term care facilities to provide students with internship opportunities.
5. The integration with Department of Nursing and Department of Beauty can help students enhance the diversified development.

Graduates from the Department are expected to have the following characteristics:

1. Basic knowledge and skills of elderly care and senior citizen service management.
2. Service sentiment and team spirit.
3. Empathy and literacy for life.