Risk Management and Life Supporting System for the Elderly Living Alone or with a Spouse only : A Comparative Study between Korea and Japan
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As both the number of elderly people and the component ratio of the elderly living alone rise dramatically, long‐term care has become one of the major problems that aged society faces. And with increase of double income households and weakened family ties, the elderly of Korea and Japan are hard to expect their adult children's care. Sometimes they may suffer from acute illness or chronic disease, and they easily become casualties of accidents such as falling down. Furthermore some of them became victims of suicides or dying‐alone or starved‐death. So policies and measures for preventing crisis and dealing with risks and emergencies of elderly people are urgent tasks to be solved. Long‐term Care Insurance should cover services for mitigating risk of elderly people, and assistance care services for daily life of the elderly such as meal, bath, clothing and going‐out should be provided. Both Korea and Japan have abundant practical experiences in this area. Korea executes various government-driven security programs such as Elderly Care Service program and Japan depends on silver industrial services based on heath related services of medical facilities. But nowadays U‐care service system for the elderly living alone, utilizing ubiquitous IT equipments, was developed. Social work for the elderly consistently emphasizes the challenges, problems, crises, and losses experienced by individual elderly who want to live in community settings, even though they live alone without any assistance from their families. Crisis management of Korea gives an accent to governmental efforts, including both central and local government, and tries to utilize ubiquitous IT techniques to reduce financial burden. On the other hand in Japan, non‐profit industries such as gas company developed equipments for managing crisis of the older people as industrial goods. And social services for crisis management for the elderly tend to combine with health services on community level.
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As both the number of elderly people and the component ratio of the elderly living alone rise dramatically, long‐term care has become one of the major problems that aged society faces. And with increase of double income households and weakened family ties, the elderly of Korea and Japan are hard to expect their adult children's care. Sometimes they may suffer from acute illness or chronic disease, and they easily become casualties of accidents such as falling down. Furthermore some of them became victims of suicides or dying‐alone or starved‐death. So policies and measures for preventing crisis and dealing with risks and emergencies of elderly people are urgent tasks to be solved. Long‐term Care Insurance should cover services for mitigating risk of elderly people, and assistance care services for daily life of the elderly such as meal, bath, clothing and going‐out should be provided. Both Korea and Japan have abundant practical experiences in this area. Korea executes various government-driven security programs such as Elderly Care Service program and Japan depends on silver industrial services based on heath related services of medical facilities. But nowadays U‐care service system for the elderly living alone, utilizing ubiquitous IT equipments, was developed. Social work for the elderly consistently emphasizes the challenges, problems, crises, and losses experienced by individual elderly who want to live in community settings, even though they live alone without any assistance from their families. Crisis management of Korea gives an accent to governmental efforts, including both central and local government, and tries to utilize ubiquitous IT techniques to reduce financial burden. On the other hand in Japan, non‐profit industries such as gas company developed equipments for managing crisis of the older people as industrial goods. And social services for crisis management for the elderly tend to combine with health services on community level.
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