This study aims to examine the welfare of the senior citizens in Bupyeong-gu community and make suggestions to establish the leisure, and cultural and welfare service program to meet their needs. To accomplish this research goal, we proposed the following four research questions;
First, what are the properties of the senior citizens in Bupyeong-gu in context of sociology of population? Second, what are the needs of the welfare of the senior citizens in Bupyeong-gu? Third, how is the infrastructure of the welfare of the senior citizens in Bupyeong-gu? Fourth, what are the obstacles to meeting the needs of the welfare of the senior citizens in Bupyeong-gu and solutions to them?
To figure out the needs of the welfare of the senior citizens, the beneficiaries of welfare service, and their welfare condition, they were classified into the former term group, mid term group and latter term group by their age. Three parties who represent their own groups had focus group conversations one to two times respectively from June 2006 to Sep 2006. Based on these data, we have made an analysis of the needs of the welfare of the senior citizens in the former term group, mid term group and latter term group. We also made a suggestion to establish an effective cooperative network between 4 welfare centers and one senior welfare center, so that over 170 senior’s recreation halls are integrated and taken care of systematically while making full use of the existing welfare service infrastructure, and to offer them early senior citizen education programs and senior citizen’s leadership promotion programs by occasions in addition to their age. Especially, we suggested that shopping malls, senior’s goods sales booth in cultural space, senior citizens’ gathering place, cafe and other silver zones should be built mandatorily, so that the senior citizens can be integrated with the young rather than separated, and proposed the utilization plan for senior human resource.
Key Words: the Leisure, cultural and welfare service