Is long-term care insurance in South Korea a socialising care policy?

Kim, Hee-Kang

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“…Notwithstanding these limitations, many indications suggest that generalization is likely. Mortality rates in LTCFs tended to represent a large portion of all deaths in Israel as in many countries around the globe [1,[18][19][20]. Visitation restrictions were instituted in many countries and were considered as negatively affecting residents' well-being [5,6].…”

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Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Residents and Their Family Members

Cohen‐Mansfield

Meschiany

2022

Gerontology

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Introduction: The first cases of COVID-19 in Israel were reported in February 2020. Family visits were prohibited from March 10, 2020, and then allowed on a limited basis on April 20, 2020. This article examines how COVID-19 impacted long-term care residents and their family members from the perspective of long-term care facility (LTCF) administrative staff. Methods: An online survey was sent to Israeli LTCF administrators between mid-July and mid-October 2020, resulting in 52 completed questionnaires. Quantitative analysis involved descriptive statistics using SPSS, with differences compared via t tests, ANOVA, and χ2 tests. Qualitative analysis involved thematic analysis of responses to open-ended questions. Results: COVID-19 was reported to have multiple types of negative impact on residents, including direct effects on morbidity and mortality as well as indirect effects manifested as negative reactions to measures aimed at limiting infection, including isolation from relatives, decreased activities for residents, and COVID-19 testing. The impact of isolation on LTCF residents was reported as negative or very negative by over three-quarters of the respondents. Behavioral problems among residents increased in 32% of the facilities. The qualitative results suggested that adverse effects on residents and family members were partially mitigated by the use of communication technologies. Discussion/Conclusion: The interplay of multiple factors affected LTCF residents against the backdrop of COVID-19 restrictions. The emergence of mitigating factors which provide solutions to some of the challenges has the potential of improving quality of care for LTCF residents as the pandemic continues and thereafter.

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Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Residents and Their Family Members

Cohen‐Mansfield

Meschiany

2022

Gerontology

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“…Others have examined the quality of newly created jobs for women, asking whether the working conditions of informal eldercare workers ( ganbyeongin ) are significantly different from their institutionalized yoyangbohosa counterparts (Oh and Roh, 2010). They also question whether the LTCI has truly socialized care when the policy fails to recognize the ongoing role of unpaid care (Kim, 2016). Notwithstanding these important findings and timely critiques, this line of inquiry neglects the role and contribution of migrant workers in the sector, a striking omission given the sector’s heavy reliance on migrant workers.…”

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Care Work and Ethnic Boundary Marking in South Korea

Kim

2018

Critical Sociology

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This article examines how state eldercare provision influences care workers’ subjectivities and claims for dignity and self-worth. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork conducted in South Korea, I argue that migrant and native-born care workers construct different ideals around what is “good” versus “bad” care through the marking of ethnic and professional boundaries. South Korean women employed as state-certified care workers emphasize the expertise and skill they provide as professional caregivers, and as such, demand expanded rights and protections from the state. In contrast, Korean-Chinese migrant women, who share a similar ethnic background but migrated from China to South Korea, emphasize their value as fictive-kin who can provide wholehearted care as informal workers. These divergent strategies not only result in the use of ethnicity to mark clear boundaries between the care work provided by each group, but they also (re)produce ethnically-segmented, two-tiered labour markets institutionalized by eldercare policies.

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“…Welfare provision for older people has improved gradually since 2008, particularly after reforms in 2010 and 2015, which have focused mainly on elder abuse and home care services. The introduction of Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance in 2008 is particularly notable as it acknowledges care as both a societal and a familial responsibility (Kim, 2016). Although policies for eldercare have improved, they still fail to address the problem of sufficient support for older people and those (usually women) who care for them.…”

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“…Although policies for eldercare have improved, they still fail to address the problem of sufficient support for older people and those (usually women) who care for them. The socialisation of care has not been achieved through the adoption of LTC Insurance, as it derived not from the need to attain socialisation of care but from urgent social and economic pressures, such as low fertility rates, unemployment and a lack of care services (Kim, 2016). The Confucian virtue of ‘filial piety’ is still accentuated in welfare provision for the elderly (Sung, 2014).…”

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Gender, work and care in policy and practice: Working mothers’ experience of intergenerational exchange of care in South Korea

Sung

2017

Critical Social Policy

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This article aims to uncover working mothers' experiences in relation to intergenerational exchange of care and support in South Korea. It examines the impact of Confucian gender ideology on the operation of intergenerational reciprocity within the Korean family. Increasing numbers of working mothers make intergenerational exchange of care between working mothers and their family members an important issue. Although studies have focused on the importance of the Confucian virtue of filial piety in intergenerational support, little research has explored the influence of Confucian gender ideology on working mothers' experiences of intergenerational exchange from a gender perspective. This article aims to fill this research gap by exploring the experiences of Korean working mothers in the intergenerational exchange of care. It draws on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 30 married women in paid employment in Seoul, Korea, carried out in 2014. This article argues that traditional gender expectations of married women's responsibility for parents-in-law persist regarding intergenerational reciprocity, despite recent development of policies for care.

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Is long-term care insurance in South Korea a socialising care policy?

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Residents and Their Family Members

Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care Residents and Their Family Members

Care Work and Ethnic Boundary Marking in South Korea

Gender, work and care in policy and practice: Working mothers’ experience of intergenerational exchange of care in South Korea

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