지방정부의 상대적 노인복지 수준에 관한 실증적 연구 = 충청남도 15개 지방정부를 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study has been designed to compare local budget level among various communities in Chung-Nam province, Korea. We aimed to explore traditional roots and the policy development of community care for elderly people in Korea, and to analysis the continuation thends affecting its policy development. One of the issues in this study is the different use of the term ‘community care’ in Korea. The term ‘community care’ in the study refers to community-based services that provide an alternative to only family care at home. Since the late 1980s, community care policy for elderly people has concentrated on creating a safety net and on temporary selective measures aiming at protection of the standard of living of the weakest groups. Therefore, formal community care service for elderly people under poverty line was implemented on the based of voluntary home helper in 1987. Since e early 1990s, neo-liberalists have taken at their face value assumed at the state has been being restructured in Korea. Consequently, the community care policy has emphasized a mixed economy of care and the government largely has remained in a minimum role of sustaining community care for elderly people. Thus, no satisfactory recipe has been developed over 20 years of community care for elderly people in Korea. Community care for elderly people is at best a patchy scarf of resources, at worst non-existent in Korea. A clear comprehensive policy is required which sets out the responsibilities of the various agencies and professionals involved in this field.