The integration of medical care and eldercare is a national strategy to cope with population aging

and the implementation process requires the close cross-functional collaboration between the medical and eldercare teams. This integration faces more challenges in the process of increasing aging and the synergistic promotion of health care and health maintenance. The large differences in cultural literacy

expertise

and goal orientation between the medical and eldercare teams are the main factors affecting the cross-functional collaboration of medical and eldercare teams in public hospitals. In this paper

we take a pilot public hospital as the research subject and by creating a national model hospital for respect of the elderly

a national elderly-friendly hospital

a hospice pilot unit

and a demonstration ward for elderly nutrition

establish a culture and empathy-based

elderly-centered

and professionally supported cross-functional collaboration model between the medical and eldercare teams.