| Summary: | 碩士 === 佛光大學 === 公共事務學系 === 98 === The elderly living alone is part of the society as well as a population group with large heterogeneity. Nevertheless, it is easy for the society to depreciate, ignore and forget, as well as marginalize them. When our population becomes aging, apart from the change of the social and family structure, more and more elders voluntarily (or involuntarily) choose to live alone. When living alone, elders must face certain risks, have underlying safety issues, and lack of caretakers, which have caused serious social problems. The society has begun to care and ardently anticipate the active intervention of the government and the elderly welfare groups to guide the improvement of the lives of elders living alone.
The acquisition of the supporting source of the living environment is the largest difference between living alone and not living alone. Problems of the elderly living alone can be divided into the four aspects: physiology, psychology, finance and social participation. Meanwhile, need is the root of all problems, which derives from deficiency. Generally speaking, the need referred to by the social welfare shall mean the “minimum standard of living”, which emphasizes the necessity. When exploring the issue of “Problem and Need” of the elderly living alone, in addition to taking individual cases into account, the significance of such issue at the timing must be clearly given; otherwise, there would be no effective solution. Even though poverty is indeed the problem of most elders living alone, the life care for them cannot be simplified as “monetary” problem and be entirely dealt with in light of an economic one. Money is unable to satisfy the diverse need of the elders living alone under the poverty line. We promote the western countries’ values in the dignity and choice of the elderly. Nowadays, if our country and society treat the elderly with indifference, we will pay a costly learning price in the future.
This study aims at exploring issues in respect of the real-life care of elders living alone through research, consisting of (i) the policy aspect: the care policy of our country for elders living alone; (ii) the need aspect: the real-life need of elders living alone; and (iii) the execution aspect: the execution issues of the local social and welfare personnel. By means of providing a more humane life care to elders living alone, it is anticipated to achieve the purposes of living alone but not lonely, as well as protecting and respecting the value of their lives.
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