According to the definition given by World Health Organization (WHO), if a country¡¦s percentage of people who are older than 65 years old is greater than 7% of total population, it is an aging society. Based on the forecast statistics for the aged population from the Ministry of Interior, Taiwan¡¦s aged population will rise to 14% in 2010 and will be over 20% in 2030. The fast growth of the aged population is a common social phenomenon around the world. Indeed, how to take care of the aged is an important issue, especially in Taiwan.
Purpose: This research aims to understand problems of aging population, such as employment, medical care, care of the aged, long-term care, long-term family support, leisure, and education. The result of the study might serve as a reference for Kaohsiung city government in making caring policies for the aged population.
Material and method: This study is conducted through deep interview and questionnaire. The content focused on Kaohsiung city government¡¦s caring policies for the aged population. 170 subjects received interview and questionnaire. 150 cases were obtained, 20 being excluded due to incomplete data.
Result: (1) 34.7% of the Kaohsiung residents do not have the concept of the care of the aged and only 20% of the 50-to-60-year-old residents¡¦ plan their later life. (2) 30% of the Kaohsiung residents¡¦ first choice is living with their children and their next choice is living in the community (26%). The third choice is living in private nursing centers (18.7%). (3) 60.6% of old people are not willing to live in nursing centers.
Discussion: In Taiwan traditional culture, people believe that the best life of the aged is living with children, playing with grand-children, and then died by nature. From the result of this study, Kaohsiung city government¡¦s caring policies for the aged population will achieve the goal to create a high-quality and peaceful environment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0821107-143403 |
| Date | 21 August 2007 |
| Creators | Zhang, He-yi |
| Contributors | Ying-min,Wu, Ying-yao,Zheng, Zhong-pan,Li |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0821107-143403 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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