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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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