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KMID : 1170320220280040001
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Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy
2022 Volume.28 No. 4 p.1 ~ p.27
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Effect of health, economic and relational resources on social participation activity of the elderly single-person households
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Shin Jae-Eun
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Abstract
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Social participation, which rapidly increases with the number of older people due to aging is attracting attention as it has a positive effect on society. This study aims to investigate the factors that affecting social activities of elderly living alone. It is shown that the social participation and other factors are related each other.
The To analyze the casual relationship between longitudinal changes of the level of social participation that affecting social activities of elderly living alone and related factors were determined by the latent growth modeling. The 5th (2014), 6th (2016), and 7th (2018) data of the Korea Aging Research Panel (KLoSA) were used for this study. As shown in results from unconditional model analysis the level of social participation of middle and old people living alone decreases every year while the decline trend weaken as the age increase. It implicates that the early intervention in the resulting career break is necessary for elderly people who have already experienced retirement. From conditional model analysis results the higher level of social participation is related to the higher education the higher cognitive function and the higher number of meetings with close people while the higher level of depression is indicated the lower level of social participation. To determine the relationship between the change rates and the effect of longitudinal changes the level of social participation were investigated. It is clear that the decline trend becomes strong in the case of having a spouse and the higher level of depression while the decline trend gets weak in the case of older people and the higher number of meetings with close people. From the above results to develop the social participation for elderly living alone there are suggestions. At first it is necessary to intervene early for career breaks and develop suitable jobs. Second, it is necessary to provide policy support for social participation for middle-aged and elderly people with mental health problems. Third, it is necessary to provide policy support for emotional health for single elderly households.
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KEYWORD
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latent growth modeling(LGM), elderly living alone, social participation, social participation activity, subjective class identification
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