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THE AGED, DEPENDENT POPULATIONS, AND THE WELFARE STATE
WATTS, THOMAS D. 이화여자대학교 동서교육연구소 1983 East west education Vol.4 No.2
This paper first examines the increasing challenge of meeting the future needs of the aged disabled and other dependent populations. The aged are singled out for particular attention, a population that is increasing worldwide (United Nations, 1975). Due to advances in medical technology, and other factors, the aged disabled and other dependent populations continue to grow at a comparatively faster pace than the growth of income-earning populations. The second part of this paper focuses on the seminal, comprehensive response needed to meet the challenge of the growth of the aged disabled in the U.S. and worldwide (Watts, 1981) and other dependent populations. While many conservatives criticize increases in welfare state expenditures (Freeman, 1981), some "neoconservatives" (or "neoliberals," as some like to be called) call for the state to serve as a stimulator of the private and voluntary sector in respect to addressing social welfare needs (Novak, 1982)(Stoesz, 1981). An important part of the private and voluntary sector are "mediating structures" (Berger and Neuhaus, 1977) such as the church, private agencies, etc. It is necessary to include mediating structures and the private and voluntary sector with the welfare state in a combined, comprehensive effort to meet the increasing future needs of the aged disabled and other dependent populations. The welfare "state" alone is inadequate for the task, and only this kind of comprehensive and coordinated effort can effectively encounter this future challenge. This future challenge is all the greater if a fundamental assumptian is accepted here, namely, that the U.S. and the developed nations have a fundamental moral responsibility to meet the needs of aged disabled and other dependent populations world-wide as well as at home (and to do so they must be more committed to equalitarian policies, spend less on energy use, armaments, etc.).