Abstract
Medical facilities in retirement residential areas provide diverse medical and health-related services to retirees, and they are equipped and programed with various medical services for enhancing retirees’ daily activities. To find out the current status of using medical facilities by retirees, this study surveyed retirees in their fifties, sixties, and seventies, who live in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul. The survey data was sorted by the types of medical facilities they visit, reasons for their visit, and the types of medical facilities in a retirement residential area they would prefer to visit. The pros and cons of using private and general hospitals can be evaluated further to set up the right strategy to reconcile them; and each type of hospital can be improved by adding those missing elements that the interviewees mentioned. In the broad perspective, this indicates the need to suggest the direction of preparing residential areas that are technically planned for retirees on the basis of the analysis of Korean retirees’ needs.
Highlights
South Korea is experiencing changes in citizen members of her cities as she enters the post-aged society accompanied by her low birth rate
The retirement of the baby-boomer generation is another problem that should be solved in the era of rapid aging of population
This paper has investigated the current status and hidden preferences of the retired baby-boomer generation on their pattern of using medical facilities
Summary
South Korea is experiencing changes in citizen members of her cities as she enters the post-aged society accompanied by her low birth rate. Future entry into the post-aged society and the aging of baby boom generation, which is a large population group accounting for 25% of South Korean population, are working as catalysts for the exploding ratio of old population, together with low fertility (Table 1 and Table 2). The ratio of the aged to the national population shows that far more old people reside in urban areas than rural areas. These socio-demographic problems, together with a great change in paradigms, motivate research in diverse areas, and solutions in preparation for the Homo-Hundred era have been proposed continuously. Given changes in citizens’ life due to retirees’ retirement as well as the problem of population aging, the change of targets in city and architecture should be constantly recognized
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