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KMID : 1023720120560010275
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2012 Volume.56 No. 1 p.275 ~ p.298
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A Study on the Awareness of Elderly People on Human Rights and Human Rights Abuse
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Rim Choon-Seek
Yun Jee-Yong
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to examine the human rights awareness of elderly people and their perception of the infringement of the elderly’s human rights, the causes of the violation of the elderly’s human rights, and to seek ways of preventing the infringement of the elderly’s human rights. The subjects in this study were 445 senior citizens and 544 male and female adults who ever maintained elderly people. A self-administered survey was conducted, and the following findings were given: First, the human rights awareness of the elderly people was sort of good, but they didn’t know well about the abuse of the elderly’s human rights. Second, they didn’t have much experience to be abused in terms of human rights, and they thought their human rights were violated because of their poor economic abilities. Third, the most common
experiences that the senior citizens underwent after their human rights were infringed were getting disappointed about themselves, feeling helpless and loss of self. They didn’t actively responded to that on the ground that it was a personal matter. In conclusion, the development of programs that focus on the elderly’s right rather than their needs is required to boost their quality of life in the sector of senior welfare.
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KEYWORD
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senior welfare, human rights, recognbition, dignity, abuse
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