Wu Fei impact "the central government did not order it, but the local government asked to stop holding community photos, and the old man lay down on the lonely road.

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There are many elderly people living alone in rural areas. In order to take care of their elders, many communities set up Changzhao stations for daily health care and course study, and also provide common meal services. They report to community care sites every day, such as primary school students go to school to eat together, and enjoy the warmth of human feelings. It has become the daily life of the rural elderly.

During the epidemic prevention period, although the Ministry of the Interior did not order the suspension of community care strongholds, many local governments decided to "deploy ahead of time," including Taipei City, Xinbei, Taoyuan, Nantou, Chiayi County, Kaohsiung, and other places, announcing that community care strongholds need to be suspended. Many elderly people reported that "schools can't get in, so they have to go to vegetable markets, streets, and parks." Many community workers are worried that the loss of mutual care may leave the elderly without care, and may even become a breach during epidemic prevention.

After many community strongholds were ordered to stop activities, the elderly had nowhere to go, and walking around became a potential epidemic prevention loophole (schematic). Photo / Lin Jiyang community stronghold stopped activities, the old man wandered on the road, eating chilly leftovers at home

In February, he received a text message from the Kaohsiung municipal government proposing to suspend community strongholds. Huang Wenzheng, who is also chairman of the National Golden Point Community (excellent Community Care stronghold) and the chairman of the Guanyin Community Development Association, began to feel uneasy. Until the end of March, the municipal government again informed him that in view of the mobile crowd of Qingming Festival, the pressure of public opinion forced him to stop the operation of the community.

"after the suspension, volunteers came to tell me that the old man was loitering on the road and was in a bad mood at that time. Although the epidemic was threatening, it was very difficult to set up a community to help each other and take care of each other, and felt a dilemma." As if the heartbroken Huang Wenzheng described it, losing mutual care for the elderly is more likely to become a gap in epidemic prevention.

"I'm not reconciled to it. Old people are used to living together, so why can only stay at home and eat chilly leftovers?" Huang Wenzheng believes that the community has the ability to do a good job in epidemic prevention and to take good care of itself. He considered continuing to operate in a regulated manner in suitable outdoor places, and even if the government stopped subsidizing, he would rather pay out of his own pocket to let the community live a normal life.

Community-owned epidemic prevention measures are also quite stringent, but they are still ordered to suspend operation. Huang Wenzheng provided the Ministry of Health and Welfare: it was not forced to stop, but only provided the guiding principles of epidemic prevention. The suspension was the decision of the local government.

Lin Mingli, head of the elderly Welfare Section of the Social and Family Department (SWD) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said: "the Ministry of Health and Welfare issued a circular in February urging everyone to implement the principle of epidemic prevention and stop the service if there are uncertain or suspected cases." However, it has not ordered the suspension of community care strongholds, and it is now up to local governments to decide on their own "advance deployment." at present, it is known that there are counties and cities that have suspended community care strongholds: Taipei City, Xinbei, Taoyuan, Nantou, Chiayi County and City, Kaohsiung, and so on.

Lin Mingli said that on April 1, the SWD issued a document to all counties and cities to provide "guidelines on the work of community epidemic prevention manpower". It also presupposes that if the epidemic worsens and it is difficult for the government to take care of all the needs, it still needs the community.