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| Care services for frail older people in South Korea | | Author(s) | Kyeung Mi Oh, Anthony M Warnes |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 21, part 6, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp 701-720 |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Informal care ; Multi generation families ; Social policy ; Korea. |
| Annotation | This study examines the changed social circumstances of older people in South Korea, and specifically the increased need for formal health and social services for those who are frail and have no informal carers. A summary account of the country's exceptionally rapid demographic, economic and social transformations demonstrates a widening gap between the population's expectations and needs, and existing health and social service provision. Recent initiatives in welfare programmes are examined; extant care services are accessed mainly by the very poor or the rich. The dominant policy influence of physicians, and a history of conflict between traditional and western medicine probably underlies the low current priority for "care" as opposed to "cure", and also for the management of chronic conditions and rehabilitation. Neither long-term care services nor personal social services are well developed. There is a marked disparity between the acute services, which are predominantly provided by private sector organisations in a highly competitive market and public primary care and rudimentary residential services. The latter are weakly regulated and there are many instances of low standards of care. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020318210 A |
| Classmark | I: L: P6: SJC: TM2: 7DK |
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