• Journal of Teachers' Pension
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• v.4
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• pp.11-56
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• 2019

연금분할제도란 혼인기간 중 부부가 가정의 유지를 위해 담당하였던 역할들에 대하여 동등한 가치를 부여하고, 따라서 그 기간 동안 획득한 노후보장자산을 이혼 시 동등하게 분할하기 위한 목적으로 운영되는 제도이다. 이혼여성의 노후소득보장을 위한 긍정적인 역할에도 불구하고 연금분할제도는 다양한 차원에서 비판을 받고 있다. 대표적으로 이혼여성의 분할연금 청구권이 배우자이었던 자의 상황에 의해 영향을 받을 수 있다는 점, 분할연금에 대해서는 보험의 원리가 제대로 작동하지 않는 비대칭성의 문제, 연금분할의 과정에서 가입자 우선 원칙 등이 주된 문제점으로 지적을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 독일과 스위스의 연금분할제도 운영사례를 토대로 우리나라 관련 제도의 개선방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 먼저 개선방안의 탐색을 위한 목표체계로서 여기서는 부부간 역할분담에 대한 동등한 가치부여, 이혼 이후 독립적인 삶의 보장 그리고 연금재정의 중립성을 설정해 보았다. 다음으로는 이를 위한 구체적인 정책대안으로서 ①분할연금에 대한 보험적 기능의 활성화, ②이혼과 동시에 연금분할의 실시 그리고 ③분할연금의 독자적 수급권 기능 강화 등이 개선방안으로 지적될 수 있다. 나아가 현행 공적연금제도의 체계 하에서 연금분할은 장애 또는 사망의 사회적 위험에 대한 적용의 불완전성 그리고 운영과정에서의 형평성 시비 등을 야기할 우려가 있으므로 제도의 근본적인 개혁이 필요로 하다는 점을 강조하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.5570-5577
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• 2011

This study was carried out to analyse the differences in the attitudes toward the elderly according to the characteristics of women immigrants, and identify the variables to predict the attitudes toward the elderly. The participants were 592 women immigrants sampled from six cities and one county. The major results of the study were as follows. Firstly, there were significant differences in the attitudes toward the elderly depending on age, residential area, spouse's educational level, family income, hope to support homeland's parents, and contact with homeland's family. Secondly, the characteristics related with Korean family explained the largest portion of the attitudes toward the elderly, and predictors of the attitudes were age, residential area, family income, and hope to support homeland's parents.

• 한국노년학
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.1127-1148
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• 2018

Care-stress among the dementia caregivers has been an important issue. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the dementia elderly's symptoms on the primary caregivers'care -stress. In addition, the moderators, the expert support and the family support, were used to examine the moderating effects between the symptoms and the care-stress. The data was obtained at 10 day-care facilities and services in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Busan province in South Korea. A total of 191 participants were analyzed. They were the spouses or the adult children of the dementia elderly who were diagnosed with dementia within five years. This study was conducted in multiple regression analysis. The main findings are as follows. First of all, the symptoms that the dementia elderly show were significantly associated with the primary caregivers' care-stress. Also, the interactive variable with the expert support was statistically significant. However, it was not significant with the family support. This means that only the expert support from doctors, nurses or social workers decreased the caregivers' care-stress. The implications of this study are 1) the necessities of the education that covers the specific symptoms of the dementia patients', 2) the extension of the supportive policies for caregivers' care-stress, 3) the necessities of more allocation of the dementia specialists in the practical settings and cooperative systems among the dementia specialists in various fields, and 4) the enhancement of the family function among families who have a dementia elderly as a family member.

• Journal of Society of Occupational Therapy for the Aged and Dementia
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.57-65
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• 2018

Objective : The purpose of this study was to compare the demographic characteristics, health and quality of life between general adults and adults living with dementia. Method : The data were collected using raw data of the 2016 community health survey and compared between 2,592 adults living with dementia patients and 225,840 general adults. health were assessed for sleep time, stress level, depression, and subjective health status, and quality of life was measured by EQ-5D. Result : In comparison of demographic characteristics, age and family number of adults living with dementia patients were significantly higher than general adults (p<.001), income and eduation levels were low (p<.001), and marital status was higher rate of living with spouse (p<.05). In comparison of health status, adults living with dementia patients were significantly longer in sleep time than the general adults (p<.001), and stress level was higher (p<.001), the percentage of experience of depression was higher (p<.001), and the subjective health status was worse (p<.001). Adults living with dementia patients were significantly lower in quality of life total score and all sub-domain than general adults (p<.001). Conclusion : Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to seek ways to improve the health and quality of life of dementia patients' families.

• 한국노년학
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.1003-1024
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• 2016

The human rights of older people have gotten more attention recently in South Korea, a country that is in transition to a super-aged society. This study aimed to systematically review studies on elder abuse and related factors among community-dwelling older adults in South Korea over twenty years (1994-2016). We searched major databases (Riss, DBpia, KISS, KMbase, and PubMed) and identified published studies relevant to the topic. Based on inclusion and exclusion criteria related to study quality, a total of 31 studies were selected for this review. We examined types, measurements, and risk factors of elder abuse as well as study designs in the selected studies, guided by Johannesen's theoretical framework on elder abuse. All of the reviewed studies on elder abuse in Korea were cross-sectional studies, most of which focused on older people living in urban areas, using a non-random sampling method. All of the studies focused on certain types of elder abuse only. Some adopted elder-abuse instruments that were not validated, and others used self-developed instruments without psychometric tests. As for the risk factors of elder abuse in South Korea, the physical and mental health of the victims and aggressors impacted the risk of elder abuse, but general sociodemographic factors such as age, sex, and education were less likely to be related to the risk. In addition, decreasing caregiver burden and building elder-friendly communities are important for the prevention of elder abuse. Needed are further empirical studies on elder abuse with a theoretical framework that gives consideration to the unique sociocultural contexts of Korea. It is also recommended to develop instruments to measure elder abuse reflecting the sociocultural contexts of Korea, and to examine the multi-dimensional risk factors of elder abuse.