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A Legal･Institutional Study on Management of the Elderly Dying Alone
Public Land Law Review
Abbr :
KPLLR
2019, 86(), pp.281-308
Publisher : Korean Public Land Law Association
Research Area : Law
2019, 86(), pp.281-308
Publisher : Korean Public Land Law Association
Research Area : Law
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A problem of the elderly dying alone can be considered to be the issue that is shown in most countries of facing an aging society due to a rise in old population. Compared to a country that has worried early about the problem of the elderly owing to the aging society, our country couldn't help indicating the shortcomings in solving the elderly problem caused by an increase in single elderly households due to a change in social phenomenon along with the rapidly growing elderly population. Despite the efforts of the country and local governments for preventing the elderly dying alone, it hasn't been that long since the lonely death in the elderly, who are social minorities, began to be recognized as a social issue as well as being regarded as a personal matter. Thus, a result was brought that fails to coincide with the objectives of a relevant law and a system such as what an elderly person, who was dead lonely, is omitted from the management objects of the country and local government. The nation has announced and then enforced diverse policies in order to prevent the solitary death of the elderly. Even the local government has enacted and then executed about 140 by-laws for preventing the lonely death. However, given managing the elderly dying alone with what these policies and by-laws fail to be effective law and system in solitary death of the elderly, this will be nothing but a pointless measure for preventing the elderly dying alone. Accordingly, this study aimed to define the elderly dying alone in terms of the solitary death of the aged generally as lonely death of a person of whom nobody takes care among elderly people aged over 65 years. A cause of the elderly dying alone appeared to include a rise in old population, old-age poverty, a break with dependent family members, and an increase in one-person households. Hence, as a result of analyzing the current policies and by-laws of the country or local governments, the integrated law pertinent to the solitary death of the elderly needs to be enacted. To spread a coherent policy, the policy will need to be arranged through a completed enumeration survey on the lonely death of the elderly. Also, the suggestion of a realistic and effective system in management for preventing the elderly dying along will come to lead to playing an important role in elderly people's managing a living worthy of human dignity.
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