Feeding competition
Keelung Mayor Lin Yu-chang, left, and YouTuber Potter King display their bamboo shoot and squid dishes at a news conference in Keelung yesterday to promote a creative cuisine contest that is to take place at Chaojing Park in Keelung on May 29. All are welcome to join the cooking competition and share their innovative recipes, they said.
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Keelung eases rules, lifts age limit for foster parents
HELP NEEDED: Responding to a rising number of children in need of foster care, the city government aims to widen the pool of families who can apply
By Lin Hsin-han and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Keelung City Government has eased regulations on foster parenting, opening it to people over 65, citing a rapidly aging population.
As of the end of last month, about 64,000 of the city’s residents, or 17.52 percent, were aged 65 or older, Keelung Department of Social Affairs data showed.
Foster families have not escaped the trend among the 44 foster homes housing 65 minors, 13 foster parents were aged 60 to 64, and five were 65 years old, the data showed.