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The Kyunghyang Shinmun | Who Is Responsible for Elderly Care? One Caregiver for Five Seniors… Up to Twenty When Someone Takes Leave
The Korean government has introduced a long-term care insurance system for the elderly and has continuously expanded nursing facilities and care workers. However, many families still do their care work by themselves despite 10 years-long national effort. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion and Gallup Korea surveyed 500 elderly caring families. 66.8% of respondents answered “No” to the question, “Are you using government-provided or private caring services in the last month?” Why? The cause is under the poor working environment where quality care is not possible. The fact that care workers are barely working in a harsh environment means that it is challenging to provide quality care to the caregivers. Experts say in common that the government must be more involved in the operation of nursing home care to stabilize the employment of caregivers and raise lower labor costs. In a broad framework, it is necessary to raise awareness of caring for society as a whole. Dr. Jeon Ji-won said, “It is necessary to recognize the national cost of caring as an ‘investment’ that cultivates social competitiveness as well as education. She thinks it will have a significant impact on national competitiveness.
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The Kyunghyang Shinmun | Who Is Responsible for Elderly Care? Family Care Falls Solely on Women
According to the research conducted by Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion, 85% of caregivers for the elderly were women. It is fact that “female” rather than the eldest son or parent-child has played a major role in becoming a primary caregiver. Dr. Hyuna Moon, who conducted the research, said “Our society has never agreed on who should be responsible for caring in the family, but the social perception that caring is women’s work strongly affects within the family, so women are dedicated to caring for the elderly.” From the other in-depth interviews, it can be seen that elderly care was a heavy burden to carry alone for a caregiver. Dr. Moon said, “The government-funded care service hours need to be expanded much more than now and this is not just a way to ease the intensity of family care work”. In terms of the fact that interviewed careworkers have pride in their works by considering that their care work is valuable and professional, care is more effective as being done by a third party, not the family. She argued that the social atmosphere in which intimacy is formed only by kinship must be changed so that socialization of care will take place and the government will take more responsibility for the care issue.
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The Kyunghyang Shinmun | Who Is Responsible for Elderly Care? One Caregiver for Five Seniors… Up to Twenty When Someone Takes Leave
The Korean government has introduced a long-term care insurance system for the elderly and has continuously expanded nursing facilities and care workers. However, many families still do their care work by themselves despite 10 years-long national effort. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion and Gallup Korea surveyed 500 elderly caring families. 66.8% of respondents answered “No” to the question, “Are you using government-provided or private caring services in the last month?” Why? The cause is under the poor working environment where quality care is not possible. The fact that care workers are barely working in a harsh environment means that it is challenging to provide quality care to the caregivers. Experts say in common that the government must be more involved in the operation of nursing home care to stabilize the employment of caregivers and raise lower labor costs. In a broad framework, it is necessary to raise awareness of caring for society as a whole. Dr. Jeon Ji-won said, “It is necessary to recognize the national cost of caring as an ‘investment’ that cultivates social competitiveness as well as education. She thinks it will have a significant impact on national competitiveness.
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The Kyunghyang Shinmun | Who Is Responsible for Elderly Care? Family Care Falls Solely on Women
According to the research conducted by Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion, 85% of caregivers for the elderly were women. It is fact that “female” rather than the eldest son or parent-child has played a major role in becoming a primary caregiver. Dr. Hyuna Moon, who conducted the research, said “Our society has never agreed on who should be responsible for caring in the family, but the social perception that caring is women’s work strongly affects within the family, so women are dedicated to caring for the elderly.” From the other in-depth interviews, it can be seen that elderly care was a heavy burden to carry alone for a caregiver. Dr. Moon said, “The government-funded care service hours need to be expanded much more than now and this is not just a way to ease the intensity of family care work”. In terms of the fact that interviewed careworkers have pride in their works by considering that their care work is valuable and professional, care is more effective as being done by a third party, not the family. She argued that the social atmosphere in which intimacy is formed only by kinship must be changed so that socialization of care will take place and the government will take more responsibility for the care issue.
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