As our society is getting aged rapidly, people are interested in the securities for the aged. The satisfaction related to quality of life for the aged equally applies to the people using the welfare institutions. Normally people think different when i...
As our society is getting aged rapidly, people are interested in the securities for the aged. The satisfaction related to quality of life for the aged equally applies to the people using the welfare institutions. Normally people think different when it comes to living standards and quality of life related to welfare institutions. However, in reality, there is no difference, rather there is a need to do more in case of welfare institutes as more and more facilities are needed to meet the rapidly aging society. These institutions play a very important role not only supporting the aged in terms of number of institutes that are available, but having good facilities to provide good quality of life to the aged. In order to reach the standards of quality, there are several things related to providing efficient services. The purpose for this study is to provide basic data to develop services for those residing in the welfare institutions free of cost.
This study reflects how the factors in personal, family, social, and welfare facilities influence on the satisfaction of aged people who stay in the institutions free. This study results from the research conducted from 24th Sept 2008 to 5th Oct 2008 by the 250 aged who live in the 5 free welfare facilities located in Busan, Ulsan, Kyungju in KyungBuk province, and Yangsan in Kyungnam. Out of these only 186 polls were used in the statistics. All collected data was analyzed by SPSS Win 12.0 program with frequency analysis, technical statistics analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, scheffe’s multiple range test.
To sum the research up, the result is as following.
First of all, I analyzed their general traits with all these factors.
In the personal factors, by gender, there are more females in the institutions, by age the majority was between 81 and 85 years old, in terms of education, most of them have no school background, and the people who stays in the religious institutions were satisfied with their religions, and in health wise, they don’t think they are in a good health.
In the family factors, the majority was separated by their spouse death.
In the society factors, the majority don’t maintain contacts with families, relatives, or friends.
In case of worries, agonies, they don’t want to talk with the staffs in the institutions; however they have their close friends in the same institutions.
The factors related to facilities, they are quite satisfied with external ( location of the institutions, environments around the institutions, reputation of the institution, the view of institution…), internal environments ( facilities, cleaning, design of the institutions, safety facilities, convenient facilities, heating system, conditions of bedroom), services, and staffs ( eventor programs for them, medical service, foods, standard caring, daily schedule, staffs’level in terms of numbers, quality, intimacy with staffs)
Secondly, during this research I have found these factors influence on their living satisfaction. This research shows that these factors make their living different, according to their health conditions, gender, age, religions.
The result reveal that female, aged and religious and those who think they are healthy tend to be more satisfied with their lives as compared to male, aged, non-religions, and those who think they not healthy.
In the family factors, there doesn’t seem to be an influence on the living satisfaction.
In the social factors, those who have more contact with families are more satisfied, on the contrary, those who have less contact with friends outside of institutions got more satisfied. However having close friends in the same institutions make them satisfied.
In institutions’ conditions factor, I find the highly satisfied in this matter, the higher their living satisfaction is.
Third, by this research I find out how these factors influence on the old people’s living satisfaction, the most effective factor in personal factors are age, the second factor is health condition. In the family contact wise, social relation don’t influence on the living satisfaction much. From the facilities aspect, bedclothes influence on their satisfaction much, the next one are heating system, services, and staffs’ hospitalities.
As the study above shows us, to improve the aged living conditions, and free institutions’ facilities, the government leads them to modernize andspecialize these institutions by supporting them financially, encourage them to socialize with people like institution’ staffs or friends to achieve these things. Also regularly they need to evaluate them until they are settled down without government control. Additionally we need more facilities to support old people’s health, some better programs suitable for their mental, personal states.