Long term care institutions and domiciliary care institutions adopting combined processing method should comply with the following rules:
(1).Standards for facilities and personnel for institutions with individually utilized areas and planning for fixed compartments and independent areas should follow rules stipulated in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 respectively.
(2).Standards for facilities and personnel for institutions without fixed compartment and planning for independent area should be higher.
Scales for institutions of the previous paragraph should be calculated respectively according to various standards. Scale for the institutions with original establishment approval should exceed 1/2.

After the implementation of the Long-Term Care Service Act on June 3, 2017, the establishment, expansion, or relocation of senior citizen welfare institutions providing long-term care services must comply with the act and related laws and regulations.

Welfare institutions that applied to the municipal or county (city) governments for the establishment, expansion, relocation, resumption of business and change of person in charge in accordance with the relevant regulations before the implementation of the amended Act on January 31, 2007, and whose application procedures are pending may be subject to the regulations in the amendment of these standards implemented on June 17, 1998.

Senior citizen welfare institutions that have been permitted to file for registration before the implementation of the amended Act on January 31, 2007, but fail to meet the requirements of the amendment implemented on July 30, 2008, shall complete improvement tasks for fulfilling the requirements within 5 years from the date of implementation of the amendment herein. Cases of failure to complete improvement within deadline will be handled in accordance with the Act. Senior Citizens’ Welfare Institutions stipulated in the previous Article will follow the same Act.
Senior citizen welfare institutions in remote areas, outlying islands, or indigenous community areas that have been permitted to file for registration before the implementation of the amended Act on January 31, 2007, and those that encounter challenges in the improvement process in accordance with the amendments implemented on July 30, 2007, may be exempted from the improvement tasks prescribed in the preceding paragraph after they have submitted exemption requests to the competent authority in the municipal and county (city) government for review and approved by the central competent authority.

These standards shall become effective after the promulgation date.