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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2021.21.09.516

Who Attends the Senior Welfare Centers in Cities?  

Park, Kyungsoon (연세대학교 고령화융복합연구센터)
Park, Yeong-Ran (강남대학교 실버산업학과)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.21, no.9, 2021 , pp. 516-527 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to the aging population and the entry of baby boomers into the elderly, the elderly are recognized as a group with diversity rather than a single group with the same needs. Therefore, it is necessary to try to grasp the factors that the elderly use welfare centers from the perspective of consumers. The results showed that gender, age, education, occupation, economic status, social class, number of friends, number of social activities, number of diseases, and depression were significant. In other words, women than men, older people, highly educated people, elderly people without jobs, elderly people with poor economic status, the elderly belonging to a lower social class, the more friends, the more social activities involved, the more diseases, the higher the depression, the higher the probability of using the welfare center. It was found that heterogeneous elderly groups, such as the elderly with high educational background, many friends, and active participation in society, and the elderly, economically difficult, and poor in health, use the welfare center. Based on these research results, policy and practical suggestions were made to improve the quality of welfare services for the elderly.
Keywords
Urban elderly; Senior Welfare Center; Usage Factor; KSHAP;
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