Government & Integration · Public-sector projectsDigital Youth T-Ambassador Program · "Warm Companion" project

Finish the conversation, and the visit record is already written.

Volunteers get to spend their time with elders, not paperwork. Together with the Pingtung County Social Welfare Alliance and the Sanxing / Sichun Community Development Associations, we brought an AI volunteer care platform to Chaozhou Township, Pingtung County.

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Warm Companion
LINE Official Account
CommunitySanxing Community
Mrs. Chen ****Today's visit
Visit recording03:12
AI-organized recordDraft
Physical condition
Old knee injury, stairs are painful; takes blood pressure meds on time.
Emotional state
Cheerful talking about her grandson, but often sleeps poorly.
Follow-up
Needs someone to go with her to next week’s checkup.
Confirm and submit
AI draft · saved only after the volunteer confirms
Program
Digital Youth T-Ambassador Program: AI applications for rural communities
Partners
Pingtung County Social Welfare Alliance; Sanxing / Sichun Community Development Associations
Location
Chaozhou Township, Pingtung County
Entry point
LINE: no app to download, no password to remember
57Volunteers in the Sanxing community
3 areasPhysical condition, emotional state, follow-up items
LINEOpen it and you’re signed in, no new account
Background

Older volunteers caring for the oldest.

Taiwan became a super-aged society in 2025. Rural areas are aging even faster, and long-term care staff are badly stretched. Community care relies heavily on volunteers, many of whom are seniors themselves: older volunteers caring for even older neighbors.

Local organizations have cared for elders for years, but faced real bottlenecks: visits still recorded on paper, time-consuming volunteer management (Sanxing alone has 57 volunteers), slow case follow-up, and a heavy checking load for social workers. Our principle: technology should serve people, not make people adapt to it. No extra burden on volunteers, and no change to the habits they already have.

How we did it
01 · Easy for volunteers

Open it in LINE, no new system to learn

Many rural volunteers are local seniors. Downloading an app, registering an account and remembering a password are the first hurdles for any digital tool. The platform uses LINE, which volunteers already use every day, as its entry point: tap to open and you’re signed in.

  • Choose the community, then the person you’re visiting, and start recording
  • Only elders assigned to that volunteer are listed, so no one picks the wrong person
  • If the mic can’t be used inside LINE, it switches to the phone browser and keeps you signed in; existing recordings on the phone can be uploaded too
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Warm Companion
LINE Official Account
Signed in with LINE
1 Choose community
Sanxing
2 Choose who you are visiting
Mrs. Chen ****
Last visit 10/28
Mr. Lin ****
Last visit 10/30
Mrs. Huang ****
Last visit 11/03
Only elders assigned to you
Start recordingUpload a recording
If the mic is unavailable inside LINE, it switches to your phone browser and keeps you signed in. You can also upload a recording.
02 · Records write themselves

Record the visit, and AI organizes it into three areas

Volunteers used to write up visits from memory afterward. It took time, the detail varied, and changes in an elder’s health or needs were easily missed. Now the conversation is recorded during the visit, AI produces a transcript and organizes it into physical condition, emotional state and follow-up items.

  • Tap “Create transcript and summary” and every field fills in automatically
  • Every record follows the same format
  • If a weak connection makes processing fail, the original audio is kept and can be resent without re-recording
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Warm Companion
Visit record
Mrs. Chen ****04:36
Create transcript and summaryDone
Transcript
Volunteer · How has your knee been lately?
Elder · It aches now and then. I take my medicine on time.
Elder · I just miss my grandson. He only visits at New Year.
AI draft
Physical condition
Occasional knee pain; takes medicine on time.
Emotional state
Generally steady; says she misses her grandson.
Follow-up
Check on her knee again at the next visit.
If a weak connection makes processing fail, the original audio is kept and can be resent.
03 · Human review

AI assists, people decide

AI output can contain mistakes, and saving it unchecked could affect later care decisions. So AI results always start as a draft, and an official record is created only after the volunteer confirms. Case officers can review and correct it again in the back office.

  • Volunteers can edit anything AI filled in
  • Nothing is saved until they tap “Confirm and submit”
  • The back office shows the summary next to the transcript, with created and last-updated times
Visit record details
Illustrative
Mrs. Chen ****Sanxing · Volunteer Wang ****
Confirmed by volunteer
Transcript04:36
VolunteerHow has your knee been lately?
ElderIt aches now and then. I take my medicine on time.
VolunteerAnd how have you been feeling?
ElderI just miss my grandson. He only visits at New Year.
AI summary
Physical condition
Occasional knee pain; takes medicine on time.
Emotional state
Generally steady; says she misses her grandson.
Follow-upEditing
Check on her knee next visit; invite her to the community lunch.
Save
Created 2026/11/04 10:12Last updated 2026/11/04 15:40
AI results start as a draft and are saved only after confirmation.
04 · Real-time oversight

One back office to search, so elders who need care are spotted early

Paper forms and chat messages used to be scattered everywhere, hard for case officers to pull together. Now submitted records reach the back office instantly. Officers search every visit in one place and manage the elder list and volunteer assignments together.

  • Search by elder or volunteer name, community or visit date
  • Key points of each summary appear right in the list, no need to open every record
  • Add and edit elders, set their community and assign volunteers
Warm Companion · Case officer console
Illustrative
Elder or volunteer name, community, visit date
All communities
ElderVolunteerCommunityDateKey points
Mrs. Chen ****Wang ****Sanxing11/04Occasional knee pain; misses grandson
Mr. Lin ****Wang ****Sanxing11/03Takes medicine on time; in good spirits
Mrs. Huang ****Li ****Sichun11/02Wants to join the community lunch
Mr. Lin ****Wang ****Sanxing10/27Goes out less in cold weather; check in again
4 records
05 · Privacy protected

Minimal disclosure of personal data, used with confidence

Visit records touch on elders’ health and family situations, and volunteers work on their own phones. The platform separates data access by role and masks elders’ names on volunteers’ phones.

  • Volunteers see only their own community and the elders assigned to them
  • Elders’ names are always masked on volunteers’ phones (e.g. Mrs. Chen ****), in history records too
  • Case officers sign in with a one-time email code, with a new code required after too many wrong attempts; sessions time out automatically, and deletions need a second confirmation
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Warm Companion
History
Names maskedOnly your own visit records
Mrs. Chen ****
11/04
Submitted
Mrs. Huang ****
11/03
Submitted
Mr. Lin ****
10/30
Submitted
Mrs. Chen ****
10/28
Submitted
Case officer sign-in: one-time email code · auto sign-out when idle
Code sent to c***@example.gov.tw
4729
Valid for 10 minutesVerify and sign in
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