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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2015.13.1.67

Status and Tasks of ICT-based Welfare Services for the Elderly Living Alone  

Kang, Jong-Kwan (Dept. of Social Welfare, Graduate School, University of Seoul)
Lee, Jun-Young (Dept. of Social Welfare, Graduate School, University of Seoul)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.13, no.1, 2015 , pp. 67-76 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Objective of this study was to establish the role of ICT based Welfare services to support the needs of the elderly living alone. For this, 85 current services for the elderly from 6 central governments was arranged, and also, 114 possible welfare services based on ICT in future were surveyed from the research articles. These services were categorized by Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and rearranged into online, offline and combined services. It was observed that most of the services were focused on Safety needs(medical health) and Self-actualization(leisure culture), and services for Esteem were lack. It would be possible to improve the services for the environmental improvement, employment expansion, independent Activities of daily living with the ICT based elderly welfare services. And also, it was needed to develop the additional services for the psychological and emotional support. It was concluded that ICT based consumer oriented services could improve the quality of life of the elderly living alone with the well balanced strategies.
Keywords
Elderly Living Alone; Maslow; Service Categorization; Ict-based Elderly Welfare Service; Consumer Oriented Service; Enhancement of Quality of Life;
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