• Title/Summary/Keyword: 지역복지

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Significant Factors Related to the Intention of the Elderly to Live in a Community:The Case of Busan Metropolitan City (노인의 지역사회 거주의사에 영향을 미치는 요인: 부산광역시 노인을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Kiyoung;Park, Mijin;Yoo, Youngmi
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.445-458
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    • 2007

  • This study aims to find the extent to which the elderly intends to live in their community and significant factors related to their intention and to provide basic but important empirical data in approaching to various community resources for community care service for the elderly. This study analyzed the raw data titled social welfare needs of residents of Busan Metropolitan City surveyed in 2005. Within the data, 1,673 households were selected in which at least one senior citizen aged 65 and over lived together. Questionnaires from in each household were analyzed. Research findings indicate that 80% of the respondents intend to live in their home rather than in residential institutions and that the elderly without adult children(55.2%) have less intention for living in their home than the elderly without their spouse(76.4%). Their intention-related factors were the presence of adult children, recognition on community resources for the elderly and perceived number of chronic diseases, when they were presumed to be healthy. When they were presumably weak or ill, socio-economic factors such as home ownership and welfare recipience were found to be more influential factors than family-related variables. The elderly who intended to live in home rather than to live in a residential institution were less likely to use social services in community than expected. Policy and practice implications were suggested on the basis of the findings.