| Title |
A Study on the Development of Planned Retirement Housing and Retirement Community Model for the Korean Elderly People |
| Abstract |
Housing is a most important issue in the consideration of social welfare for the elderly. It is also closely related to other health and welfare issues and cannot be viewed in isolation.Any discussion of housing for the aged within the contex of a multicultural society raises many questions and issues relating to the difficulty and complexity inherent in grouping together a segment of the Western community which has widely different personal interests, capacties an needs regrding housing and living arrangements. There are also constraints on the ability of aged persons to choose their housing arrangment factors include a lack of suitable accommodation in areas where it is needed and at price which the aged person can afford, levels of income, and the difficulties experienced by some aged people in performing ordinary houshold tasks because of frailty, or other medicosocial conditions. For frail elderly people, the ability to availability of assistance from their families and/or the availability of social support services in their localities. With regard to older citizens, society has estabished certain goals which may be summarized as "good guality of life." Dignity, indpendence, and the exercise of options are among the common descriptors of life guility: to achieve them, programs have been devised to help provide the elderly with adequate income, good living environments, nutritious food, and access to other people and to needed services (health, recreational, cultural, religious and social). |