Measuring the Community Geographic Accessibility of Rehabilitation Resource

According to the definition of the World Health Organization, Taiwan has entered the aging society in 1993, and will become a super-aged society in 2025. We have to face urgent demands for two million of the elderly in the next decade. Although there are many long-term care service institutions, the facilities or services to maintain a healthy lifestyle is relative lacking and exists rural-urban disparity. That is a major and immediate issue for governments. This study is to integrate open data, including the population data, the rehabilitation physician resource data and the road network data. Applying spatial analysis techniques, such as hot spot analysis and the enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method to examine Taiwan's aging population distribution of each village, and to analyze the relative lacking facilities or services for the elderly aging in place and health promotion.