2020
Hyuna Moon, Seung-eun Cha

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Citation: Moon, H., & Cha, S. (2020). Family Caregivers’ Elderly Care: Understanding Their Hard Time and Care Burden. Family and Culture, (32)1: 102-131. doi:10.21478/family.32.1.202003.004 Language: Korean10.21478/family.32.1.202003.004
Language: Korean
Publishing Institution: Korean Family Studies Association
Publishing Date: 2020. 03. 30
Keywords: family care, home care, long-term care for the elderly, care experience, care burden, care responsibility

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South Korean society is quickly becoming an aging society where the responsibility of care falls on society from family burden. This paper takes this transition as the departure point of our analysis toward a journey to understand the reality Korean family members are facing in terms of elderly care. By using the 27 care stories collected in 2018, this paper investigates partially what specific aspects of the difficulties the family members face in elderly care with a presumption that there might be a clash or inconsistency in the care behaviors of the family members or in their ways of thinking on elderly care. Moreover, the paper aims to illustrate that the root of this inconsistency lies foremost at the difficulty of family care. We conclude in this paper that the issues of ‘where’ and ‘who’ take up another dimension of difficulties and burden, apart from physical hardship or labor of elderly care. Detailed policy implications are also discussed in the paper.

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