초고령사회의 도래에 따른 노인소득과 고용분야의 문제점과 개선방안

Abstract

Our society now experiences the senior citizen society which means that the aged over 65 years old make up more than 7% in a whole country population, and there is some prediction that it will be more than 20% within 30 years. In the social circumstances, although it hasn't observed till now yet, the aged's problem will be an important problem in our society. Such the aged's problem may appear various forms(for instances, health, leisure, education, and so on), and there are a lot of solution, but most of all, the aged's original problem is the basic income security. Our the aged's income security types includes not only the brivate supporting system such as a retiring allowance, land speculation, private pension, and sons & daughters's support but also the public supporting system such as public pension, public assistance, and so on. But the changes of social consciousness and structure doubt whether the private supporting system plays an important role in approaching senior citizen society, and at the same time many developed countries change their the aged's income security system from the private section to the public section by degrees. In this respects, this study aims at suggesting some policy alternatives for improving income policies for the aged. In order to attaining this goal, this study reviews the relevant literature to elderly people's problems and their welfare needs and examines the welfare programs for improving income in advanced nations. As results of this study, policy alternatives for improving income policies for the aged are suggested as follow: First, it is necessary to expand the elderly pension and establish the pension system to assure the elderly of their income. Second, it is also necessary to operate a job replacement program for the elderly and enact an elderly employment law to provide the elderly with more job opportunities and thereby, use their ability and experiences productively. Third, it is deemed necessary to extend or readjust the age of retirement using Human Resource Pool of the aged. Fourth, the social services need to be extended to ordinary elderly people. In addition, the home welfare services should be extended to the middle-class or higher-income elderly. Moreover, it is necessary to develop and operate a variety of professional programs in preparation for the information-intensive society in consideration of elderly people's conditions, and expand the leisure facilities productively for them. The conclusion of this study presents that our the aged's public income security system is lacking in the side of system and consciousness. However, to make improvement it, above all, the Government and other public administration must play an important role in improving this system. and at the same time, people(including the aged) also change consciousness about aged's income security.