Abstract
Having been implemented for many years in the United Kingdom, social prescribing refers to providing non-clinical and diverse regimens to people with mild to moderate mental health problems, thereby alleviating their symptoms and improving their physical and mental health. Taiwan has also begun to develop its own version of social prescribing. To ensure the diversity and richness of local social prescribing, museums in Taiwan have attempted to promote the Museum on Prescription within the framework of social prescribing. National Taiwan Museum (NTM) was used as an example to illustrate how Taiwan develops the Museum on Prescription, including its definition, event planning, personnel training mechanisms, and evaluation frameworks. NTM collected and analysed the latest materials from other countries, in which it identified applicable theories as the core framework of Museum on Prescription. Subsequently, experts, scholars, museum staff, healthcare personnel, older adults with mild dementia, and the caregivers were interviewed to understand their thoughts, expectations, and suggestions for the Museum on Prescription program. Their suggestions were then integrated effectively into program planning. In addition, National Taiwan Museum proposed the “six steps of planning”, “five standards for cultural relics display”, and “eight criteria for activity content”, which specifically and concisely summarize the content and elements of implementing the Museum on Prescription. These standards may serve as references for other museums interested in such practice.
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SOCIAL PRESCRIBING, MUSEUM ON PRESCRIPTION, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
