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The present paper, through the comparison of restroom design specifications between the US and Japan as well as the review of decrees, case investigations and expert interviews, explored how to target on the restroom in buildings and home to conduct design in order to improve the seniors living security and satisfaction after Taiwan enters an aging society in the future. Research conclusions: 1. This study found that Japan restroom specification include wheelchair toilets,inner-toilet equipped with colostomy equipment and multi-functional toilets, while the United States adopts accessible toilet. Therefore, Taiwan shall be in response to the building types and their usages to design restrooms of simple type and multiple-function type, respectively. 2. In additional to personal use, the elderly restroom may involve in issues of the assistance provided by carer and the usage of men and women as well as the conflicts with wheelchair users. Therefore, it is suggested that the development of such design specifications should be conducted from several dimensions of gender equality, accessibility, safety and comfort etc. and take into account of space planning and toilet room design, including how to accommodate different needs for toilet room, accessible facilities, toilet subsidiary accessory contents, washbasin, guide signs, etc. In the future, Taiwan should consider the economic factor and public acceptance to adopt demonstration site for setting, and then incorporate it into legislation in order to cope with the coming aging society.

As the service sectors play an increasingly important role in all economies worldwide, service executives and professionals are well advised to recognize two main pathways to achieving sustainable success in services, namely, enhancing the strategic differentiation and operational excellence of their service enterprises; obviously, these executives and their employees need to develop the knowledge and skills required to achieve such success. This book discusses actionable methodologies needed to generate creative ideas, including deciding on which ones to pursue, how to justify projects financially, how to manage the development projects for innovative services, how to reach out to customers, and how to offer them superior service support.

During the first decade of the People's Republic of China from 1949, overseas Chinese affairs were considered important to the national interest of China, and a special department called the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission was established under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But during the period from 1967–69, when the Cultural Revolution was caught in the wild wind, overseas Chinese and their institutions, particularly the ones at home, were considered ideologically suspect and undesirable because of their allegedly bourgeois background and foreign connexions. The privileges previously given to them as a cushion to adjust themselves gradually to the socialist system were repudiated and removed. The Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission was disbanded.