Research on the Achievements in the Fidel of Gerontology in Korea

한국 노년학 업적에 대한 조사연구

It has been more than ten years that the studies in the field of social gerontology I Korean had begun. But there had been no empirical study on this field about the published articles. This study intend to analyze and evaluate those achievements synthetically focusing on the past articles on the aged in Korea which had been published till March, 1980. And also intend to prepare a movement for the purpose of utilizing and fixing those past articles in order to contribute to the social gerontology I Korean. Used raw materials are as follows; 1) research papers of every college 2) thesis of annex research institute of every college 3) reports of academic institutes and organizations annex research institute of every college 30 reports of academic institutes and organizations 4) 42 copies of raw materials of seminars and doctoral dissertations and 3 independent volumes. In order to describe what kind of researches has been done in the field of social gerontology, categorized in six items focusing on the selected studies. 1) Process of unfolding and definitions of social gerontology 2) Economic life of old people 3) Works, Retirement, loneliness and alienation of the old people 4) Domestic management of old people 5) Medical and health aspects of old people 6) Welfare of old people These problems has been exposed through this research. Firstly almost every studies are descriptive and diagnostic rather than scientific for the theoretic development of gerontology. secondly it is difficult to generalize for the purpose of utilizing the outcome of researches I the broader and deeper sense those researches has been done in regional level. Thirdly there hadn't been any researches over the entire country in the governmental level. Thus it is impossible to deduce and analyze comparatively on the ground of governmental data.