社區照顧的理念在原住民族部落中透過文化健康站可以有效地推展，實現在地老化，特別是活躍老化的功能。本研究以Oldenburg(1989)定義「第三場域(the third place)」的特性來檢視文健站照顧服務運作的功能，嘗試分析其環境的塑造如何符合第三場域的內涵，探究其凸顯長者價值、提升活躍老化的政府目標。循此，本研究提出文健站應強化長者的照顧服務本質，包含 (1) 以人為本的照顧服務、(2) 分享與互助的場域、(3) 家以外的家的場域，以及 (4) 增進長者幸福感的場域，以發展成為符合第三場域概念基礎、擁有部落獨特的服務照顧機能的文健站。

The concept of community care can be realized through the cultural health care station in the indigenous tribes in Taiwan, particularly by fulfilling the functions of aging in place and active aging. This research aims to examine the health care functions among the cultural health care stations based on the characteristics of the “Third Place” defined by Oldenburg (1989). It attempts to analyze how the environment of the station meets the features of the third place helping to highlight the values of elders and to achieve the goal of active aging. The result finds that, to cultivate the environment, the cultural health station should emphasize the fundamentals of service and care for elders, which include being people oriented, practicing sharing and mutual assistance, being a home- away- from- home and upgrading into a good life. In this way, each station can develop its own unique health care environment that meets the qualification of being a “third place” for the elders in the tribes.