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A Study on the Lonely Death of the Elderly

  • Journal of Korean Hyo Studies
  • 2016, (24), pp.137-165
  • Publisher : The Korean Hyo Studies Association
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : December 31, 2016

Lee Dong-Im 1 junghwanchun 2

1창원대학교
2동서대학교

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ABSTRACT

The rapid modernization which is accompanied by the social condition of anonymity, the deterioration of hyo culture, the rapid increase of the population of old people, the change of the family relation and single-person household due to the nuclear family, the increase of the relative poverty due to the neoliberalism, the rapid anomy, the widespread bureaucracy and the rapid social isolation caused lonely society. Therefore, the lonely death of the elderly since 2000 has emerged as a major social problem in Korea. It was caused by the structure factor inclusive of the decline of hyo culture, the causal factor inclusive of the aged society, relative inequality and the direct factor inclusive of the crisis old man. Therefore, a good place to start in the study of the lonely death of the elderly is to approach it in view of the interdisciplinary aspect contray to the existing studies which have approached it in view of the social welfare and administration theory.

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