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Social policies for the elderly in the Republic of Korea and Japan: a comparative perspective
- Authors:
- PALLEY Howard A., USUI Chikako
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 29(3), September 1995, pp.241-257.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Japan are highly industralised and modern nations which are both influenced by the Confucian tradition of respect for elderly and family responsibility for the care of aging parents. In both countries the proportion of the elderly population is increasing. Japan, since the end of World War II, has utilized its government bureaucracy to help develop the social welfare system and to formulate social policies and programs for the elderly. Japan's tradition of samurai Confucianism is congruent with the commitment of the Japanese government to such social development as a matter of national policy. The Republic of Korea has not assigned a comprehensive planning role to its government bureaucracy. Lacking the mix of industrial/post-industrial infrastructure of Japan and not yet faced with the immediacy of a very large elderly population, the Republic of Korea's government has developed its social policies for the elderly in a more incremental manner, usually emphasizing small scale and piecemeal initiatives. With respect to social support, it has emphasized voluntary family efforts as congruent with the Korean (and Chinese) variant of Confucianism. This paper will compare and contrast these different approaches.
Conference report: depression and suicide in older people: report of a workshop held at the Ciba Foundation, London, on November 11, 1994
- Author:
- ABAS Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(8), August 1995, pp.707-710.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a workshop held by Research into Ageing on the subject of depression and suicide in older people.
Promoting solidarity between generations: the nurse's role
- Author:
- WRIGHT Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.8.95, 1995, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explores the work of The European Nursing Development Agency (TENDA), which suggests that attitudes to and expectations and care of older people are very similar across Europe. Looks at the part nurses can play in alleviating discrimination against older people and looks at ways in which nurses can work in solidarity with older people.
Listen and learn
- Authors:
- THORNTON Patricia, TOZER Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.7.95, 1995, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that many elderly people have seized the opportunities brought by the community care reforms to influence change, but there is still a long way to go.
Only the lonely
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.6.95, 1995, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Due to the disappearance of social networks which kept people as part of the community into old age, many are living and dying at home alone.
Minority elders in double jeopardy
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 4(2), May 1995, pp.31-32.
Age Concern England and the Commission for Racial Equality have announced a joint campaign to improve understanding of the needs of ethnic minority elders. Explains how they mean to achieve this.
Elder rights and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
- Authors:
- NETTIN F. Ellen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 40(3), May 1995, pp.351-357.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Since 1975 the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program has grown and developed under the Older Americans Act (OAA) of 1965. With the passage of the Older Americans Act of 1992, this program was combined with other advocacy functions and placed in Title VII - Vulnerable Elder Rights Protection Activities. This article provides a historical overview of the policy, programmatic, and research issues that surround OAA and explains the activities of ombudsmen in their local communities and the roles many social workers perform under the auspices of long-term care ombudsman programs.
Building bridges: designing for elderly people
- Author:
- HOGAN Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Access by Design, 67, May 1995, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Accessible Environments
An extract from a paper delivered to a second year post-graduate course on gerontechnology in Oulu, Finland. Discusses the needs of the elderly consumer and the desirability of an inclusive design philosophy in responding to them.
Protecting elderly people: flaws in ageist arguments
- Author:
- RIVLIN Michael M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 6.5.95, 1995, pp.1179-1182.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Some form of rationing is necessary in medicine, and to use age as a criterion for rationing seems initially appealing. Many of the criteria currently being used for deciding the distribution of funds depend on subjective judgments. Age, however, is objective and therefore negates the need for value judgments. Justice and fairness, it is sometimes suggested, require that finite resources should be directed at young people, who have not had a chance to live their lives, rather than at elderly people, who have already lived most of theirs. The adoption of ageist policies, however, may not result in the implied savings unless care is also withdrawn. Furthermore, ageist policies, which deny elderly people treatment on the sole grounds of their age, age both unfair and discriminatory and should therefore be resisted.
Genetic link to Alzheimer's
- Authors:
- ISAACS Ron, ROQUES Penelope
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 26.4.95, 1995, pp.61-63.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains the degenerative changes underlying Alzheimer's Disease and what is taking place in research.