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An Integrated Model for Studying the Quality of the Elderly

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2004, 15(3), pp.-
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Sung-Bok Park 1

1대구대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study deduces a model by which we can make an integrative approach to the quality of old people and discusses in detail the conceptual sub-dimensions that are composed of the model. The conceptual sub-dimensions are social conditions, old people's needs and life-environment, their life-world, objective welfare and subjective welfare, and the integrated welfare or quality of the elderly. The objective welfare is considered as life-capacity that is conceptualized by the introduction of Sen's capability, and the subjective welfare is composed of emotional satisfaction and existential satisfaction. I define the quality of the elderly as the elderly's emotional and existential satisfaction based on life-capacity. In this process, to clarify my arguments, I formalize mathematically the core concepts of the elderly's welfare such as life-world, functionings and n-tuple functionings, life-capacity, objective and subjective welfare, etc.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.