The purpose of this research is to contrive qualitative improvement of facility protection by providing welfare service to recover normal characteristics and social recovery, of those living in the senior welfare institution through socialization of t...
The purpose of this research is to contrive qualitative improvement of facility protection by providing welfare service to recover normal characteristics and social recovery, of those living in the senior welfare institution through socialization of the institution operated in Korea, to fulfill the welfare demands of the regional society by providing welfare service of the facility, and to provide foundational data that reflects the resources of the society, the subjects of potential welfare service by securing the clarity through democratic operation in which all the citizens in the region participate in operating the institution. To accomplish this purpose, I have analyzed and investigated 266 institutions in the country during the period of April 16, 2002 to May 15, 2002 to research about the level of correlation of senior welfare institution with regional society in terms of utilization of resources of the regional society, utilization of resources in facility operation, opening of regional society of facility equipments, and in terms of providing regional society of professional function of the facility. The above stated was analyzed and investigated by focusing on the elements of facility, man power, administrator's perception, economic resources, equipments and facility, which are correlation factors with the regional society.
Following are the results.
First, in terms of the facility element, facilities located in the city had more active correlation with regional society than those located in farming or fishing regions. In terms of the types of facilities, institutional for the aged had higher correlation in terms of resource utilization, and recuperation facility had higher correlation in terms of the society providing the professional function of the facility.
Second, in terms of the man power, facilities with more employees more actively provided the society with professional function of the facility. Greater number of social workers resulted in higher correlation with regional society through utilization of resources, opening of facility equipments, providing of professional functions of the facility, and etc. And greater number of license possessors resulted in active providing of professional functions of facility, and facilities with many volunteers actively utilized the resources and provided professional facility functions.
Third, in terms of perception factor of facility administrator, facilities of administrators with positive perception had higher correlation in utilization of resources than those with negative administrator. And in terms of facility operation, facilities of administrators with positive perception had higher correlation with regional society in all areas including utilization of resources of regional society, opening of facility equipments, providing of professional facility functions and etc.
Fourth, in terms of economic resources, facilities with expenses of correlation with the society had higher correlation than those without expenses in terms of utilization of the resources, opening of facility equipments, and higher level of providing of professional facility functions. Greater expenses showed more active correlation.
Fifth, in terms of the issuing of advertisements, facility that publishes pamphlets and periodic advertisements have higher correlation in the fields of utilization of resources, the opening of facility equipments, providing of professional functions of the facility. In terms of internet installation and homepage production, facilities with internet facility and homepage had higher level of providing professional functions of the facilities.
Sixth, facilities with good-quality equipments and materials have higher correlation with the society in all fields including utilization of resources, opening of facility equipments, providing of professional functions of the facility and etc.
In the overall view, among the factors of the facility, number of public workers, different license possessors, number of volunteers, perception of facility administrator, exchange expense and it's level, publishment of advertisements, and conditions of the equipments and materials, had great influence in the level of correlation with regional society of senior welfare institution.
Therefore, in order to establish correlation of the senior welfare institution with regional society in terms of socialization, it is necessary to improve the level of facility protection by improving the working conditions for facility workers and securing the workers with professional license or securing the workers with professional training through the education for present works. And to accomplish progression of diverse qualitative programs and services for everyday living for those living in the institution, it is necessary to actively utilize volunteers to overcome the crisis of insufficient man power. And most of all, in order to form, maintain, and advance correlation with regional society for socialization, it is necessary to strengthen the perception of facility administrator. Also, the expenses for correlation with the society and it's level, functions as an important factor in forming the correlation. Thus, it is necessary to estimate the appropriate budget in operating the facility. Also, it is necessary to actively expand facility advertisement activity along with utilizing the internet to preoccupy information regarding social welfare and senior welfare of rapidly changing age of informatization, so it could be reflected in facility operation. Lastly, by strengthening the equipments and materials, it is important to fulfill the demands for social welfare of the regional society. Such measures for correlation establishment with regional society can become the foundation of socialization in senior welfare institution.
Stages of advancement of social welfare institution to socialization could be categorized into closing, negative, correlative, and ideological stages. Correlation of Korean senior welfare institution with regional society could be interpreted to be in the stage of transition from negative to correlation stage. Based on this research result, it is necessary to establish socialization of senior welfare institution from the correlation stage to the ideological stage.