英文摘要
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In order to implement the Social Welfare Policy Program, with the relevant provisions of the Social Assistance Act, and to improve the care services and to establish the supporting system for disabled vagrants. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has constructed the self-governing regulations and give advices for vagrants to stabilize their life. However, the services provided by various counties and the cities have a big gap; in fact, medical social workers perform their duties in accordance by law, but the local government does not. After receiving the announcement, the local government does not tell the family of disable vagrants come to hospital to take care of them and pay the hospital's fee. Further, the local government does not support discharge procedures and does not stabilize the lives of disabled vagrants after discharging. Moreover, when the local governments evaluate the emergency situations in life, they often base on the right of "freedom" of vagrants and do not actively intervene. That makes the social medical workers face to the ethical dilemma in handling the issue of disabled vagrants. Medical social workers in hospitals are facing many difficulties when dealing with patients who are vagrants. The most serious case derives from that of the vagrants involving emergency resettlement in life and that of the difference in assessing this incident between medical social workers and local government. In practice, local governments often refuse to have these cases settled on the grounds of not only the liberty but also the welfare philosophy, legal provisions and even practical issues of the vagrants. In this paper, we will discuss the issues of the care for disabled vagrants about physical and mental from the perspective of social welfare philosophy, emphasizing on the discussion of the relationship between social welfare philanthropy for disabled vagrants and the related welfare service system. It is based on the perspective of the care, the dependence and the concern of family members, as well as the life-cycle perspective to carry out the analysis and depth discussion on care issues for disabled vagrants.
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