The main purpose of this study is to make a survey whether an older people's club is playing a role as a space able to provide opportunities of various participation in a society as well as one as a space for senile people's leisure through the prese...
The main purpose of this study is to make a survey whether an older people's club is playing a role as a space able to provide opportunities of various participation in a society as well as one as a space for senile people's leisure through the present situation of facilities and the realities of management on an older people's club with center in Taegu City or not and analyze with an object of 205 managers at an older people's club in order to obtain the fundamental data necessary to grope for methods of improvement for attempting to fulfill its efficient function. Consequently the conclusion is as follows.
First, 68.8 % out of an older people's club with an object of research was built since 1990, 69.2 % is located on the common housing complex, for example, an apartment, a tenement house area so that a repair problem of an older people's club relatively prove to be not serious. Basic conveniences fairly showed a defect such as a dining room, air-conditioned facilities, a simple bathroom, and a common workshop.
Second, the research revealed that 70.2 % out of it didn't organize the committee of management, 84.9 % out of it didn't organize a society of the support of it and it didn't make efficient use of community resources.
In addition, the research was found out that it had a great difficulty in operating an older people's club at present by answering that 58.8 % out of respondents were also unsatisfied with financial conditions of it.
Third, it revealed that management costs 핵 it appropriated for the most of operational management costs, payed costs for either recreation or leisure program are pretty well low. Besides 96.6 % out of most of an older people's club were being subsidized from the government or a local self-governing body and 95.5 % were unsatisfied with the subsidy, about 50000 to 100000 won.
Fourth, the number of average registered member of an older people's club was 42.8 persons, the number of average utilizing an older people's club a day, an older people's club with senile people without a meal came up to 17.1 % and the number of average senile people without a meal a day was 5.1 persons.
Fifth, a type of program is being practiced as a part of leisure activities at the current an older people's club is chiefly simple and deficient in specialty such as a game of paduk, playing flower cards, a game of chess, listening to the radio and watching TV, etc.
Sixth, in case of members of an older people's club don't participate in public service activity 83.9 % out of them occupied a majority, and in case of they are participating in an older people's club, in particular, easy service activities senile people are easily able to do without taking the least pains, for instance, a natural protection activity, an early cleaning, and traffic regulations.
In conclusion, for an execution of welfare budget management of the current an older people's club will have to get strengthened for the fundamental facility investment of the existing an older people's club along with leisure facilities instead of paying attention to the growth in number, and expert's guiding management will have to follow up with the application of various and professional programs in order to improve financial problems occurring in the course of management of the current an older people's club, every type of undiversified and non-professional program, vulnerable facilities sector, a low participation in an older people's club and problems by indifference in community. Also positive public relations to local community residents and efforts to change of perception will have to follow up for increasing a facility utility of leisure welfare service for improving senile people's welfare, an original role by manager of it groping for methods of effective management.