2 TMU colleges receive grants for social responsibility initiatives

Source: College of Medicine; College of Nursing

Published on 2018-07-20

The Ministry of Education has chosen to support TMU’s nursing and medical college projects on assistive technology and long-term care community networks.

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College of Medicine College of Nursing

College of Medicine, “Lighting Up the Lives of the Handicapped,” meets social needs for assistive technology bypromoting and educating users about tools, integrating technology resources and benchmark conformation of demonstration areas using industrial promotion, care services and talent cultivation to implement the project.

Taipei’s city government entrusted TMU with managing the Ho-Yi Assistive Technology Center to carry out the city’s education plan. This plan uses service and industry collaboration to implement assistive technology, increasing disabled people’s independence and promoting their participation in society.

Ho-Yi Assistive Technology Center

Demonstrating assistive tool use

Businesses offering assistive technologies, including manufacturers and service providers, use Ho-Yi Assistive Center as a demonstration venue. But users are the center’s focus because they provide valuable feedback for product improvement and promotional marketing, which in turn promote industrialization of assistive tools and users’ connection with the world. More than 20 enterprises are involved, and the project’s connection with the European Assistive Technology Information Network (EASTIN) increases Taiwan’s visibility in the international market.

Members testing tools and providing comments

The center uses customized services to meet diverse needs of the handicapped individuals. By bringing physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, assistive tool technicians and other experts from TMU and Ho-Yi Assistive Technology Center together, comprehensive and individual consultations as well as assistive technology services can be provided to the handicapped and their families. These services can also be promoted through various organizations and communities, raising care providers’ service quality.

The center cultivates specialized workers for care providers and the assistive industry by working with TMU partners to offer mini-courses in rehabilitation, long-term care, medical management, and entrepreneurial information. In addition to attending lecture classes, students gain experience as interns at service areas and participate in developing assistive technologies. Entrepreneurship counselling and hackathons allows students to better understand the workings of industry and practical aspects of entrepreneurship.

Controlling the environment through assistive tools linked to the eyes and head

The TMU College of Nursing project involves instructors and students in cultivating care providers and industry entrepreneurs to increase competitiveness of this service industry, facilitate assistive supply chain value and increase international cooperation to links the industry to global markets. This will help Taiwan’s assistive technology industry to develop while promoting communication and integration between users, industry, government and medical researchers.

The College of Nursing’s winning project is a “new prescription for precision long-term care” that creates an aging-friendly and enabling community network.

This project brings diverse professionals, including clinical managers, nurses and long-term care lecturers, together with industry, government and academic resources to discover local issues. Multidisciplinary collaborations aim to address “safe local aging, resource integration, care provider human resources and nutrition prescriptions” to strengthen industry-university collaborations while promoting student-faculty innovation.

Students and older adults build partnerships using karaoke contests and by making rice balls at Senior Citizen Centers.

Nursing Dean Kuei-Ru Chou (first row, second right) and Vice Dean Chiou-Fen Lin (first row third right) offer lectures for care providers.

Since a new plan for university social responsibility was implemented last year, this plan has integrated key issues, challenges and resources to meet the plan’s goals of community participation, promoting safer lifestyles and providing health care. It also helps students to set their career goals by starting from their own interests and meeting social needs by providing community group services.