The importance of leisure on whole life have got higher and higher due to the increase of spare time on our country. There is especially a growing tendency in senescence. According to the change of mordern social structure, old people lose the opportu...
The importance of leisure on whole life have got higher and higher due to the increase of spare time on our country. There is especially a growing tendency in senescence. According to the change of mordern social structure, old people lose the opportunities of labor, social participation, futhermore, and role of patriarch due to the conspicuous trend toward nuclear families, so they become faced with social, psycho-social problems. Accordingly, the studies and countermeasures on the old people's leisure activities are required keenly so that they can live in their old people meaningfully and fruitfully.
In these aspects, this research aims the desirable participation of leisure activities by grasping old people's leisure activities and psycho-social problems, and then analyzing, investigating that leisure activities are helpful in their psycho-social problems
After the research, it is known that though old people's psycho-social problems have been appearing, their leisure activities is helpful some in psycho-social problems, they live without various leisure activities for some obstacles, lack of old people's leisure programs, old people's leisure facilities. So the countermeasures are as following that can stir up old people's leisure activities-participation.
First, the obstacles of old people's leisure are serious. There are many obstacle that old people enjoy their leisure activities. They don't enjoy their leisure activities for their financial difficulty and health. It is required to develop the leisure programs considering both the improvement of old people's health and the state of their finances.
Second, the programs of old people's leisure are lacked. They prefer leisure activities to domesticity. Especially, they prefer travel, group exercise, recreation, culture lecture, public welfare activities. So, it is required to develop the program considering old people's desire and preference urgently.
Third, the old people's facilities are lacked. The leisure places old people use most frequently are limited to respect-for-age house, social welfare center Leisure facilities are got for the hobby activities through the group consisted old people and old people's group participation activities.
Finally, some proposals are as following for research on the old people's leisure.
First, the research means on the participation of leisure activities and psycho-social problems is drawn by precedent research.
so, there may be some troubles in the properity of research means.
Basic systemic research is necessary in order to develop the means grasping the participation of old people's leisure activities and psycho-social problems.
Second, for this research only analyzed technologically the its present state by simple total at analyzing data, it is required to verify the relation with leisure activities and psycho-social problems.