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Health Status and Improvement Plans for Korean Elderly (한국 노인의 건강실태와 대책방안)

  • Hwang, Hyun-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.953-975
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this document is to provide the direction of the policy for welfare of the elderly, by identifying the problems and status of the welfare service for the elderly. The primary source of degrading the living standard of the elderly is the increase of the elderly population and life longevity. The Welfare service for the elderly to enhance the poor living level of the elderly population should be established, to compensate their former economic and social contribution in the society and also to promote the basic human right. The agenda to achieve this goal sums up like these : First, the basic living of the unhealthy elderly belonging to the low-income group, such as government-provided income and medical service should be provided. Second, for those with working ability, more opportunity for working and social activities should be given, focusing on expanding the employment rather than adding income. Third, for those with middle and high income, silver industry and pastime activities should be nurtured. Lastly, rather than institutional protection for the elderly, the welfare service for those staying home should be enforced, thus naturally leading to the family support for the elderly. There cannot be a sound policy for welfare and improvement of living standard ignoring the Well-being of the elderly population. The effort to better the welfare for the minority groups who compose the base of the social base will, eventually, result in the progress of the entire society.

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A Study on the Types and Supply of Elderly Housing in Japan (일본 노인주거시설의 종류와 공급특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Soonjung
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2010
  • In Japan, a lot of elderly housing types have been developed in order to meet various needs of the older person and the change of social situations. Elderly housings can be divided into three categories elderly housings for healthy older persons, elderly care homes for the healthy and elderly care facilities for the unhealthy. Elderly housings include public and private rental housings. Sometimes they can be designated only for the elderly. Elderly care homes for the healthy elderly include full fee charging elderly housing, elderly homes, low fee charging elderly homes and care houses. Elderly care facilities for the unhealthy elderly consist of full fee charging elderly care homes, group homes for the dementia, elderly health facilities, nursing homes, elderly hospitals, and so on. However "elderly care facilities" have been proved not to be efficient for the delivery of elderly welfare services nor satisfactory to the frail older person. Therefore, based on the concept of the "Normalization", daily services have been provided for the elderly in order that they can live at their own home in the community for themselves. As a result, Japan aims not only to reduce elderly welfare expenses but also to increase elderly users' satisfaction. Emphasis on non-institutionalization and in-home services, regional characterization, harmony between Hard and Soft, user oriented services, substantiality, universal design and so on are sought for the sake of those goals.

A Study for Food Service Utilization and Service Satisfaction of the Elderly Participants (사회복지관 무료급식서비스 이용 노인의 특성 및 만족도에 관한 연구 : 충청북도를 중심으로)

  • Chung, Soon-Dool;Han, Kyung-Hee;Park, Jung-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.47
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    • pp.310-333
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    • 2001
  • The purposes of this research were 1) to investigate the characteristics of the meal service participants; 2) to evaluate the food service utilization of the elderly; 3) to identify major factors that affect food service satisfaction of the participants in Chungchongbuk-Do. For doing this, 309 subjects were selected and the survey research method was adopted. The characteristics of the meal service participants were similar to the characteristics of general elderly population in Korea. The public assistant recipients were under representative in this sample, that is, most of elderly people who participated in meal service consisted of non public assistant recipients. It meant that meal service was not provided to low-income elderly people. The health status of the elderly people was stable to be able to attend to the meal service organizations. The most important reason to use a meal service was to see their friends. It showed that meal services played an important role to provide support systems to the elderly people in community. Thus, meal services should be provided to the elderly people with social services. In order to analyze the factors influencing food service satisfaction, multiple regression analysis was employed. The results showed that physical activity, contact with friends who met in meal service program, and the number of social services were the important variables to predict meal service satisfaction in this study. These findings contributed to a better understanding of developing a meal service planning. Several improvement strategies were recommended to provide effective meal services. First, socio-economical characteristics of the elderly should be considered to provide appropriate services. Second, meal services should be provided to the elderly people with social services. Third, home delivery meal services should be available to the home-bound elderly.

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The Effects of Information Literacy of Social Service Users' on Service Quality and Satisfaction: Based on Elderly Home Care Services (사회서비스 이용자 정보가용성이 서비스 품질 및 만족에 미치는 영향: 재가노인복지서비스를 대상으로)

  • Cho, Han-Ra;Yeo, Yeong Hun
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.11
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    • pp.717-725
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    • 2017
  • The purposes of this study are to find the difference in information literacy among the elderly home care service users and to identify the impact of information literacy on service quality and satisfaction among service users. To achieve the goals, this study used 466 responses from the elderly home care service recipients in Jeollabukdo providence, and conducted t-tests, ANOVA and a series of regression analyses. The results showed that there were significant differences in information literacy by gender, household type, residence area, education level and subjective health status among service users. The study also found that service users information literacy had a significant impact on service quality and satisfaction, and it confirms the importance of customized service. This study suggests that information literacy inequality exists among the elderly home care service users, therefore, the way to improve information delivery strategy should be developed for the information-poor elderly.

Problems and Improvements of the welfare service for the in-home elderly (재가노인복지서비스의 문제점 및 개선방안)

  • Cho, Woo-Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2010.07a
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    • pp.357-360
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    • 2010
  • 본 연구의 논의의 전개는 오늘날 산업사회의 발달로 인해 고도의 경제성장과 의료기술의 발달로 평균 수명이 늘어나고 이로 인한 인구 고령화 현상이 급속히 진행되고 있다. 이러한 논의를 토대로 고령화 사회에서 재가노인복지서비스가 제대로 이루어지기 위해서 본 연구는 재가노인복지서비스가 전문적인 서비스 수준으로 이어져야 한다고 보고 있다. 이에 따라 재가노인복지서비스의 필요성, 재가노인복지 사업, 문제점 등에 대해서 개괄적으로 살펴보고 우리나라 재가노인복지서비스의 과제와 개선방안을 모색해보고자 한다.

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A Study on Emotional Labor of Home Elderly Welfare Center Certified Nursing Assistants

  • Jung Seo, Lee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to improve the operation and working environment of welfare centers through this study on emotional labor of Certified Nursing Assistants at home welfare centers for the elderly. For the study, 138 Certified Nursing Assistants belonging to the Home elderly welfare center in K-si and J-do were studied. For statistical analysis, Cronbach's α, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were performed using SPSS/WIN 17.0. First, as a result of the study, the difference in emotional labor among Certified Nursing Assistants at home-based senior welfare centers was higher in the degree of emotional labor in the order of dementia education, work experience, employment type, education level, and age. Second, the degree of burnout of the survey subjects was highest in the order of work experience, dementia education, employment type, and age. Finally, work stress and emotional labor were found to have a significant positive effect on work burnout. In conclusion, it is necessary to study Certified Nursing Assistants' cases of systematic emotional control experience to prevent work burnout, dementia education, work feedback on how to cope with services, and work conditions improvement measures to relieve work stress.

The Effect of Choice and Service Quality on User Satisfaction among Long-Term Home Care Service Recipients (장기요양 재가서비스 서비스 품질과 선택권 실현이 이용자 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Han-Ra;Yeo, Yeong Hun
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.597-604
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of choice realization between service quality and user satisfaction to elderly home care services. For this purpose, we analyzed 258 respondents who received elderly home care service in Jeollabuk-do. Considering the assumption that the moderating effect of choice realization would be different by rural and urban areas because of the disparity of the elderly welfare infrastructure, the urban and rural areas were analyzed separately. The analyses showed that choice realization had a moderating effect on the relationship between service quality and user's service satisfaction for the service clients resided in urban areas. However, there was no significant moderating effect of choice realization for the service clients in rural areas. This result implies that the moderating effect of selection realization is different in rural and urban areas because of the poor elderly home care facilities in rural areas. In order for aged people to actively express the effect of service user choice, it is necessary to solve welfare imbalance between regions through expansion of welfare infrastructure and policy support to rural area.

The Cost-benefit Analysis of the Community Care Service Centers for the Elderly (재가노인복지사업의 비용편익 분석)

  • Won, Jong-Wook;Han, Hye-Kyung;Hwang, Sung-Chul;Kim, Jung-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.43
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    • pp.270-298
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    • 2000
  • Government provides financial support to the 74 Home help service centers, 36 Day care service centers, and 18 Short stay service centers for the elderly. The number of service centers that receive financial support from the government is far less to meet the potential demand for the community care services. This paper applies cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the net social benefit of the services provided by the 3 types of the community care service centers sponsored by the government to justify the expansion of the government support. The benefit is calculated as community care services are provided privately in the market without financial support from the government. The potential market price is regarded as the benefit or value provided to the elderly. The price levels that potential users are willing to pay for these services are surveyed in the Census for the Elderly by the KIHASA, 1998. The market prices for the community services are generated by equating limited amount of service supply, as in number of users in one year in 3 types of community care service centers, and potential demand for the services. Market prices are multiplied to the number of users of 3 types of community centers to get the total benefit. Total operating cost of the community care service centers is regarded as cost. According to the cost-benefit analysis, Home-help service centers generated net social benefit of 137 billion Won, Day Care service centers generated 15 billion Won, and Short stay service centers generated 6 billion Won. Significant amount of net social benefit indicates that government should increase level of financial support to these service centers.

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In-home care Service's Enhance Scheme to the Elderly Patriots & Veterans through the Unity Management with the Regional Social Welfare System (지역사회복지체계와 통합 운영을 통한 고령유공자 재가돌봄서비스 확충 방안)

  • Lee, Jae-Won;Chung, Kyoun-Sup;Lee, Nam-Kuk
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.294-308
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    • 2009
  • It is growing a necessity of consideration and management to the relevant policies for the elderly Patriots and Veterans systematically in order to increase the life-supported services since the rapid growth of the aging society. It is difficult to ensure the outcome of cost-effectiveness about the policies because of the residual welfare view and the limitation of the government budget in terms of the traditional Bohun(Korean independent movement activists, veterans and sacrificed advocators for democratization) service, though. In addition, it is not realized the individual activity and daily life-supported services yet to the elderly Patriots & Veterans since the concentration of security income and medical care. Accordingly, it is proper to quest a new Bohun policy from the traditional residual welfare view to universal or ubiquitous welfare service, which will enable them to get the various care service benefit in terms of cost-effectiveness. In this vein, the study is trying to figure out the alternative supply mechanism in-home care service to the elderly Patriots and Veterans; especially, the study emphasizes on the linkage between the regional social welfare service system and Bohun welfare service system.

A Study on the Experience and Need for the Family Life Welfare Service in Korea (한국의 가정복지서비스 수혜실태 및 요구도에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Mee-Sok;Chun, Jee-Won;Lee, Yu-Ri
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.41 no.10 s.188
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    • pp.129-147
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of study was to improve the quality of the Family Welfare Service in Korea. For the purpose, this study consists of these main subjects. A analysis about the experience and satisfaction of the family life welfare services. And a analysis about the Needs of family life welfare services. The data was collected from 407 low-income families experienced of family life welfare service. The results are as follows They experienced more less $40\%$ of the family life welfare service. It appeared family life welfare service in Korea was still not 'for the family' but 'of the family'. The most of the them experienced or family lire welfare service did not satisfy about services. They hoped to set the family lire welfare services about housing, elderly-care, child-care, job opportunity.