A Study of the Housing Needs of the Aged and Elderly Residential Facilities in an Urban Area

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the demand for residence of citizens on the paid elderly residential facilities that has been heightened for its use in recent days with the focus on the paid nursing home facilities and the paid elderly treatment facilities. The subject for the survey was 200 adults of 35 years or older who reside in Seoul, and for the final analysis, a total of 169 copies of valid samples was used. The following is the major result of the study. For the reason of post-retirement entry into the nursing home facilities, the most responses came from the fact that they could live with the similar age people as neighborhood or friend. Appropriate residential area would be preferred for 7-12 pyeong (1 pyeong=3.3058m2) for single use, and 12-15 pyeong for couples, and for the appropriate security deposit and monthly living expense at the time of entering into the facilities, the highest response was for 50 million won and 500,000 won for the paid nursing home facilities, and 10-20 million won and 600,000 won for the paid elderly treatment facilities. The most important criteria for using the facilities was in the sequence of entry costs, facilities and others, and the consideration on the facility operator would be in the sequence of facility operation capability and social reliability. And, for the annexation (coestablishment) of paid nursing home facilities and elderly treatment facilities, the opinion as desirable was shown high (73.9%).