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Reasons of Long Term Care Nurse Aide Shortage in Taiwan with Autoethnography and Survey Methods throughout pre-employment and job exit stages in 2014

United Nations (2015) reported that the population aged 60 or over, and 80 or over are the most rocketing among all regions over the word from 2000 to 2015, the top five aging countries are Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Republic Korea and Singapore (United Nations, 2015) among Eastern and South East Asia countries,. Taiwan is the third serious aging society among the countries and has implemented "10-year Long Term Care Plan" (Executive Yuen, Republic of China, 2015) including providing various training course to increase the human resources for long term care system (Taiwan’s Ministry of Interior

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