The Family and Ageing in Korea

A New Concern and Challenge

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11200486
AutoresSung-Jae Choi (Seoul National University, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume16
Fascículo1
Páginas1-25
Data de publicação1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x00003111
OpenAlexW2136719929
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas11

Many changes in familial factors under the influence of modernisation have limited the Korean family's function or capability to support and care for elderly members, and are contributing to the problems of ageing. Ageing as a social problem is a new concern in Korea which has never been experienced before, and a new challenge to the family and the state. It requires the state's responsibility to support elderly people and to strengthen the family in its care function by utilising services provided by non-familial persons. The problems of ageing may be categorised into four types: (1) poverty and economic dependence (2) difficulties in health care (3) absence or ambiguity of appropriate roles within the family (4) psychological conflicts and feelings of alienation. Present social welfare provisions are far from sufficient to respond to ageing in Korean society. Problems associated with current policies are discussed and recommendations for future development are made. Ways of promoting the traditional value of filial piety, which has acted as a barrier to the development of social welfare policy for elderly people in Korea, are suggested. For the value to be upheld and developed as one promoting welfare provision for elderly Koreans, the ways of practising the value could be reconstructed so that they may meet the needs of modern Korean life; practising filial piety at a societal level should be emphasised. The roles and responsibilities between the family and the state are also discussed

Active ageing · Economic growth · Economics · Feeling · Modernization theory · Older people · Political science · Poverty · State (computer science) · Value (mathematics) · Welfare · Welfare state · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology