|
KMID : 0379220130330040741
|
|
Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2013 Volume.33 No. 4 p.741 ~ p.759
|
|
|
The Qualitative Study on the Social Workers’ Experience of Their Tasks and Roles in Day Care Services for the Elderly
|
|
Lee Jin-Ah
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
This study aims to analyse and to understand the meaning of day care services for the elderly and of the roles among social workers who provide such services. For this purpose, a phenomenological qualitative research methodology was used in order to analyse the experience of 9 social workers with in-depth interviews. Throughout this study, three themes such as the ambivalence about day care services for the elderly, the expectation of becoming a multi-tasking social worker, and present anxiety and future expectations are discussed. Based on these themes, suggestions for day care services for the elderly, especially from the perspective of service providers are provided as follows: first, unification or simplification of document form, second, counseling and supervision for social workers, third, necessity of paying for reasonable salaries and for higher manpower standards, fourth, development of program for social workers` professionalism and of accessibility to such programs, and finally finding effective way of continuing volunteer activities, are discussed.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
day care services for the elderly, social worker, phenomenological qualitative research
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|