Blind Spots in the Home Care Services under the Long-Term Care Insurance System

Abstract

This study is to examine contextual characteristics and blind spots in home care services under the Long-Term Care Insurance System enforced from 2008 and to survey what and how much those who are engaged in the System understand about them. Out of the total of 210 questionnaires distributed to 90 welfare officials and 120 social workers in Daegu, 197 were used for the survey after discarding spoilt questionnaires. The result reveals that approximately 10% of the respondents have incorrect understandings of the System. The social workers in welfare facilities understand the System and its blind spots in home care services more correctly, compared with the welfare officials in public organizations. Most of respondents believes that the blind spots have resulted mainly from that some of service recipients under the old system cannot be qualified continuously for the eligibility for care services under the new System.