The activity center at Yanpu township, Pingtung drew the pictures dozens of old people surrounding the round table, waiting for the calisthenics in due course; besides, their murmuring sounded like a broken record going that”young people going out for jobs, here only left the aged.”Another side of the township coming with the blossom of Butterfly Ginger, a breeze was blowing with an intoxicating floral fragrance, seeming to be and not to be, just like those elderly had been left in the neighborhood as the time passed by.
According to the investigation from the Department of Statistics in Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan has been transformed into an“Aging Society.”The first priority for the elderly is the issue of health, house and economic. Mechanics and Xingren (to practice love) regarding as the foundation of education concept for Tajen University are to cultivate qualified personnel as well as to serve the society in view of people oriented by means of University Social Responsibility Project supported by Ministry of Education. Our department of Pharmacy and Food Technology provides food safety and food nutrition; Bachelor Degree Program of Fire Safety provides home- and community-based fire safety services such asel emergency escape, initial fire fighting by home extinguisher, home and community fire inspection, etc. ; besides, Department of Environment and Occupational Safety and Health serves Recycling of Agricultural Renewable Resources and Community Sustainable Development, whose three projects execute separately community food safety net, cultivation ability on community fire safety, in addition to management talent cultivation on local A.I. agriculture besides the research and application on the innovative technology.
Students majoring at pharmacy and food technology assist the elderly with nutrition investment, pharmaceutical care and local ingredients R & D promotion. Moreover, those majoring at Bachelor Degree Program of Fire Safety provide long-term care for public safety, disaster prevention and evacuation and Home Fire Safety maintenance; again, those from Department of Environment and Occupational Safety and Health give guidances in the agricultural technology, A. I. Management and Control apart from the care for Human Occupational Injury; moreover, from academic to public, combinations of taking the courses and participating in the services not only give back to society but also strengthen self’s professional abilities; what’s more important is to keep well taking University Social Responsibility so as to make the elderly live happily.
Based on the report results from (109) annual plans, there are 174 valid questionnaires in one part of subproject whose recovery rate is 100%. The pass rate for whole public recognition on pharmacy care is 72.76 ± 20.06 % whose highest recognition relies on the participant with high educational degrees. Besides, checking the name of patients and drugs, directions, dosages, approaches, and so on before taking the medicine, the highest recognition rate reaches 91.95%; however, the lowest awareness with reference to the legal ingredient of Chinese and western medicine declines 39.08%, which takes more advocacy for the concerned department to provide a guidance of health education. On top of that, our school researches an information referral system for the medication safety on the elderly, offering the service and information about Drug names and precautions for medication to the community pharmacy stores, the Long-term Care Institution, and residents, including inappropriate medications, side effects, and dosage forms. Noted from http://163.24.224.87:8081/manager/shape-1.html.
With the assistance of medication safety, on the other hand, the analysis result on the investigation for elderly nutrition has been done by means of those researches on elderly health and dietary nutrition from people living at Xin’er Village, Zhenxing Village, and Shing-Wei Village. Connecting the academic courses and the caring bases with the program of nutrition and health education in addition to assisting Yanpu township with the local agricultural products activities are required to execute the special meal with local characteristics in one-day rural experience activities. We’d like to present two kinds of special agricultural products such as shrimp stick and fruit tea.
Secondly, holding activities of “Home Fire Safety Advocacy”, there are 193 participants in total; managing “Home Fire Safety Meeting and Home Fire Extinguisher Operation Drill” apart from replacing the expired fire extinguisher for free at “the Community Caring Base” and teaching residents how to correctly use the fire extinguisher is to be completed; furthermore, the“Fire Safety Inspection for the Elderly at the Community” in addition to the installation of the“Housing Smoke/Heat Detection Alarm”are necessary for residents to promote the home fire safety.
Thirdly, take students to the community for water quality and soil inspection at the farm by means of students’ professional knowledge and abilities learned from the courses as well as assist residents and farmers to set up an S. O. P. for the locally sustainable and environmental management besides product monitoring in order to promote the sustainable and agricultural development. Additionally, those questionnaires designed by professors and executed by students for community residents are to provide precisely agricultural knowledge and to show compassion to farmers with a view to improving the agricultural identity and sense of participation aside from solving the coming problem and building the correct concept on agriculture.
On the practice process of the social responsibility from universities, friendly and touching humanistic care and service are shown by students’ coordination, communications, professionalisms, and great concerns for each other, in addition to developing more chemistry and gentleness between people apart from giving full play to the spirit of “Mechanics and Xingren” upheld by Tajen University with an eye to implementing community revitalization.