A Study of Models for the Promoting of Community Senior:A Case Study of Tao-yuan County

• Main Authors: Ghun-Jung Tang, 唐春榮
• Other Authors: 陳燕禎
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70893760538731134539

碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊社會學研究所 === 97 === This study investigates how the society shall respond to social transformation incurred by an aging society by providing good-quality community senior education service and standardizing the benchmarking model for community senior education. Methods adopted in this study include Focus Group Method and In-depth Interview method from the qualitative research, while the scope of the study is limited to Tao-yuan County. Focus Group Method seminars were held twice, with 13 suppliers participating in the first seminar and 11 requesters in the second. 7 participants were interviewed by In-depth Interview Method. Consequently, there are totally 31 sample cases for the study. The conclusions of the study can be summarized as the following. From the point of view of suppliers, legality is the primary concern. While the promotion of senior education is considerably influenced by policy, institutionalization and resource, impact resulted from over-institutionalization must be avoided so as to maintain the flexibility of the proper function of the system. The supply and demand of resources must also be fully understood to enable the institute of senior education to develop autonomy with less resource dependence and richer educational features so that a sustainable development model can be developed. From the point of view of requesters, participating in senior education program may not only help senior citizens to maintain their established social relationships, adopt to and plan for their life after retirement, but may also enable them to be integrated in the modern society and to realize personal goals of self-realization and aging in place. This study also attempts to standardize the model for senior education in Tao-yuan County, taking 5A’s as the communication platform for both suppliers and requesters. Suppliers must offer programs based on an assessment of the investigation of local need for learning, provide every senior participant with a learning achievement certificate, combine related resources and set up management systems. To pursue a sustainable development, requesters must demand a fair charge of tuition, a convenient accessibility to the classroom, installment of applicable study facilities, the opportunity of learning to be volunteers, and the reduction of urban-rural divide in learning resources by conducting activities such as moving classrooms and other events. In addition, the study also attempts to provide the government with several proposals. First, the government must upgrade the level of central authority in charge of senior citizens. It must also establish a senior citizen institution and assist in the orchestration of a national organization of senior education that will serve in the future as the communication platform for the promotion of senior education in every community. Lastly, the study calls for the government’s attention to the serious issue of urban-rural resource gap. Keyword: senior education, aging society, community, institutionalization, Resource dependence