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This study was intended to activate medical social works and to improve the service of the hospitals through the analysis of representatives’ opinions of the hospitals for the convenient facilities in order to improve the quality of the life of the aged. The subjects were 141 hospitals and surveyed from March 1 through June 30, 2003. The results are as follows; 1. The distribution of the hospitals was in the urban area(88, 73.9%), the gender of the representatives was male(88, 73.9%) and the age group of the representatives was 40-49 years old(55, 45.4%). The number of the hospitals which did not. manage a restaurant was 88(69.7%), and 96 hospitals(80.7%) managed neither a store nor a resting room, 111 hospitals(93.3%) did not manage a funeral center, 69 hospitals(58.0%) did not manage a parking lot and 46 hospitals(38.7%) did not manage convenient facilities. It was thought that the management of convenient facilities should be positively reviewed in order to realize social welfare. 2. In the result of the analysis for the convenient facilities, 35 hospitals(29.4%) had a restaurant, 24 hospitals(20.2%) had a store and a resting room, 8 hospitals(6.7%) had a funeral center, 53 hospitals( 44.5%) had a parking lot and 110 hospitals(92.4%) were equipped with vending machines. 86 hospitals(72.3%) did not make profit from the convenient facilities. It was surveyed that 115 hospitals(96.6%) need convenient facilities for the profit. 81 hospitals needed the betterment of the quality of life of the aged (<97.6%). The ground of the establishment was based on the Law on the Welfare of the Aged in f)f hospitals(73.7%). The age group of the patients was above 65 years old in 99 hospitals(<97.6%). 85 hospitals(<97.7%) belonged to the urban area. This writer judged that the convenient facilities should be reviewed in order to fulfill the desire and the support of the community residents in the aging society. 3. The profit of the convenient facilities did not improve the quality of life the aged in 60 hospitals(53.1%). The Law on the Welfare of the Aged had profit in 2 hospitals(1.7%) and had no profit in 65 hospitals(55.1%). The age group of the patients above 65 years old had profit in 4 hospitals(3.4%) and had no profit in 74 hospitals(62.7%). The convenient facilities of the urban area had profit in 2 hospitals(1.7%) and had no profit in 59 hospitals(50.9%). Most of the convenient facilities had no profit, but this writer suggests the setting up of the convenient facilities in order to realize the welfare of community. This writer suggests that the setting up of the convenient facilities must be generalized in terms of the quality betterment of life of community residents and the authorities must expand support and establish the related laws in order to meet the desire of community residents and receive equal favor for the profit by the management of convenient facilities for the aged, the handicapped and the day laborers.
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