노인요양시설의 정보공개 의향에 미치는 영향요인 - 한일 비교를 중심으로 -

Abstract

People cannot but rely on others for physical and mental care in the aging society where the period of senescence lengthens out. The society should support senior citizens with independent decision making on their daily living and respect them as individuals, so that they can maintain dignity. Also, aged care service should be provided in a way that the elderly can receive physical and mental support in daily life, maintain the status quo and keep individual dignity. In addition, contracts should be signed based on an equal relationship between users and service providers. In the same vein, information should be provided from the perspective of users so as to help them with service choice. Taken together, information provision about aged care facilities' service need be standardized, given care insurance users including the elderly are hard to be on an equal footing with service providers on account of invisibility and difficulties in advance acknowledgement as well as irreversibility of care service. Hence, users should choose care service or service providers independently, for which not abstract, subjective and ambiguous information but factual, practical and objective information should be provided by care service providers.