Elder care in Korea: The future is now

Chee, Yeon Kyung

doi:10.1007/s12126-000-1002-1

Cited by 21 publications

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“…). In addition, many caregivers and family members believe that feeding an older adult is a way of being caring and nurturing (Chee ). Additional interpersonal interactions that are associated with eating performance include such things as role modelling by caregivers and other residents to eat independently (Gibbs‐Ward & Keller , Palacios‐Ceña et al .…”

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Factors associated with eating performance for long‐term care residents with moderate‐to‐severe cognitive impairment

Liu

Galik

Boltz

et al. 2015

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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This study supported the association of eating performance with cognitive impairment and physical capability among long-term care residents with moderate-to-severe cognitive impairment. Targeted interventions should be implemented to reduce the impact of cognitive decline on eating performance and promote physical capability to optimize eating performance. Future work need to use validated multiple-item measures for eating performance and test the association of personal and environmental factors with eating performance among a larger heterogeneous group of long-term care residents to enhance understanding of the factors.

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Factors associated with eating performance for long‐term care residents with moderate‐to‐severe cognitive impairment

Liu

Galik

Boltz

et al. 2015

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Informal caregiving for disabled parents is embedded as an inseparable component of old-age support in traditional Korean culture (Sung, 1990), as in other East Asian cultures (Hsu and Shyu, 2003; Yamamoto and Wallhagen, 1997). Filial piety, an essential element of Confucianism, served as the major principle for the everyday lives of ordinary people, helping to keep the family as well as society in harmony (Chee, 2000). In an agrarian society until the 1960s, the Korean extended family served as a production unit as well as a communal living unit.…”

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Informal Care and Caregiver's Health

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This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters-in-law are the prevalent source of caregivers for frail elderly parents and parents-in-law. A key insight of our instrumental variable approach is that having a parent-in-law with functional limitations increases the probability of providing informal care to that parent-in-law, but a parent-in-law’s functional limitation does not directly affect the daughter-in-law’s health. We compare results for the daughter-in-law and daughter samples to check the assumption of the excludability of the instruments for the daughter sample. Our results show that providing informal care has significant adverse effects along multiple dimensions of health for daughter-in-law and daughter caregivers in South Korea.

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“…South Korea, for instance, provides community-based home-care services to people 65 or older who experience physical disability and/or cognitive disorders. Volunteers or paid home-helpers offfer daily care and homemaking services and authorised nursing facilities provide care for short-term stays (Chee, 2000). Similarly, Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance programme provides services for frail elderly people requiring home help and day care; municipalities oversee and pay for the provision of such services (Campbell and Ikegami, 2003).…”

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Negotiating the Social Family: Migrant Live-in Elder Care-workers in Taiwan

Lin

Bélanger

2012

Asian J Soc Sci

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In response to difficulties faced by families in caring for the aged, the government of Taiwan launched a foreign live-in caregiver programme in 1992. This paper draws upon literature on family, domestic work and motives for caregiving to examine how the long-term co-residence of migrant live-in elder care-workers reconfigures Taiwanese families. Our analysis, based on in-depth interviews conducted in the summer of 2009 with 20 Vietnamese migrant live-in care-workers, uses the concept of ‘social family’ to document the close emotional and quasi-familial relationships between foreign care-workers and members of Taiwanese families. Narratives shed light on the dynamics of these relationships and show the limitations of the concept. The inherent asymmetrical employer-employee power relationship remains, while workers constantly negotiate contradictory feelings and positions in the intimate sphere of the employers’ private homes. This paper emphasizes the mutual dependency that migrants experience as both workers and members of a new family. Rather than being seen as cheap, disposable labour, migrants become indispensable to the families. It is this dependency and intimacy that make them part of the family, but also continues to make them vulnerable to abuse.

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Elder care in Korea: The future is now

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Factors associated with eating performance for long‐term care residents with moderate‐to‐severe cognitive impairment

Factors associated with eating performance for long‐term care residents with moderate‐to‐severe cognitive impairment

Informal Care and Caregiver's Health

Negotiating the Social Family: Migrant Live-in Elder Care-workers in Taiwan

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