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Problems of Long-term Care Worker for the Elderly and Search for Alternative Model and Policy Improvements in Korea

Cheon, Byung You 1

1한신대학교

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ABSTRACT

There happened some problems of pushing out too many care-woker certificates and low quality of care-jobs as the long-term care insurance started since 2008 in Korea. There are crises of care workers, mismatches between the increasing demand and diminishing supply in developed countries as well. The most important cause is change in age structure of population. The institutions and policies, however, can make differences. Denmark has attained high quality of service and good care jobs by combining jobs with education and training, while France created care jobs for the low-skilled. Korea should be in the middle of Denmark and France because there are large supply pool of latent care-workers and increasing demand for good service quality. We should enforce the minimum standards of education and training system and ensure the minimum of working conditions of care-jobs which require more close and delicate monitoring and evaluation system of government.

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