This study is to examine role sharing based on supply system, fiscal burden, and supply type in the elderly care services in order to respond how role sharing relationship between state and private sectors can be established.
This study provides st...
This study is to examine role sharing based on supply system, fiscal burden, and supply type in the elderly care services in order to respond how role sharing relationship between state and private sectors can be established.
This study provides standards of classification about role sharing of supply systems by examining existing studies on social service concept and role sharing of supply systems. The standards of classification are selected as follows: ➀ supply systems-the scale of services provided by supply systems such as government, non-profit or profit organizations; ➁ fiscal burden-the extent of fiscal burden provided by government and private sectors; ➂ supply types of services. This study applies these standards to the elderly care services, analyzes some problems of supply systems, and finds alternative methods.
At first, this study examines regional distribution of supply systems in the elderly care services. The result shows that the elderly care services in the central area are more actively operated than other areas. In addition, it is examined that central area chooses several types of service organizations in order to provide services which fit consumers' demand. However, In terms of other areas, most of service organizations are concentrated in some places. This means that the activation of elderly care services in other areas is not better than that of central area.
In terms of fiscal burden, the percentage of government aid and self-burden charge is 85% and 15%. In fact, despite the fact that the budget of social services is increasing every year, blind spot of consumers happens. This is because accessibility to some information related to services is low and there are some elders who do not receive family care at all. Through the problems mentioned above, three main points are found as follows: elderly care services include non-profit/private model; non-profit organizations are dominative supply system; non-profit/private supply and mixed fiscal supply model are dominative supply type.
This study finally provides alternative measures for cooperations among supply systems and their role promotion. Three ways can be needed to expand elderly care services. First, the role between central government and local government should be reestablished. Also, the partnership between non-profit organizations and profit organizations should be developed. Third, the role of supply systems should be strengthened. Some ways to relieve fiscal burden are as follows: to evaluate the beneficiaries for long-term care more strictly; to transfer some budget for third grade recipients into elderly care services by classifying third grade recipients as extra grade A, or B. These ways enable more elders to receive social services. Lastly, policy development to sustain elders care services can contribute to effective provision of services and management.