高齡醫學中心的願景為「創新服務、團隊合作、尊榮生命」，使命為「提供優質安全的高齡服務、培養德術俱佳的醫療團隊、成為高齡醫學的標竿中心」。高齡醫學服務特色即是秉持「全人、全家、全程、全隊、全社區」之「五全精神」，針對高齡長輩提供「周全性老年評估」，並積極處理「老年症候群」，從提供須社區健康管理，到急診住診優質安全醫療服務，以及出院後返家的「急性後期照護」及「長照整合服務」無縫銜接。長輩能健康老化，不僅活得老、更活得好。
「建構延緩失能之長者友善照護模式(Acute Care For Alderly)」(以下簡稱ACE)，希望透過高雄榮民總醫院提出之ACE住院端長者友善計畫與模組，透過發展高雄民總醫院長者友善照護模式核心架構，建立未來提供其他醫院導入長者友善照護模式指引之參考。
A. 優化住院長者友善環境，提供長者與家屬使用支持性設備 B. 推廣與深化長者友善照護文化
Integrated Care for Healthy Aging
The vision of the Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology is "Innovative Service, Teamwork, and Honoring Life." In response to the emergence of a super-aged society and the need to establish an age-friendly environment that supports healthy aging, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital established the Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in 2004. In 2014, the first dedicated Geriatric Building was established, and in 2016, the hospital actively promoted a network that integrates acute medical care with long-term care. Through age-friendly integrated care, the center offers a continuum of services—from community-based disability prevention and care, to age-friendly acute medical care, and integrated discharge transitions focusing on functional recovery, while also building a long-term care network.
Key developments include:
Community-Based Integrated Care for Healthy Aging (WHO's ICOPE functional assessment and integrated care, community-based disability and dementia prevention models, and establishment of integrated outpatient clinics for the older people),
Age-Friendly Acute Care (age-friendly emergency and inpatient care),
Innovative Seamless Discharge Integration (establishing innovative post-acute care, pioneering seamless transitions from hospital discharge to long-term care),
Creating an A+ Community-Based Long-Term Care System (a comprehensive network integrating medical and long-term care, one-stop assistive device services, the first community-based long-term care services at a medical center level in Taiwan, innovative end-to-end home medical smart care, and enhancing the integrated health care service network in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung-Penghu region),
Comprehensive Dementia Holistic Care (integrated dementia outpatient care and shared care during hospitalization).
The center’s efforts in building a society that supports healthy aging have been recognized with top honors from the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Health Promotion Administration, the National Biotechnology and Medical Care Quality Award SNQ "Bronze Award," making it the first in Taiwan, and the Joint Commission of Taiwan's 2023 National Quality Award for "Center of Excellence."
Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology