The objective of this study was to examine the moderating effect of social
welfare services on the relationship between depression and satisfaction of life of
the old man with a chronic disease. In order to achieve the goal, I utilized panel
survey data "Korean Welfare Panel Study, 2008", and I carried out the moderating
regression analysis to old man 1333 people more than 65 years old with chronic
diseases. In summering, result of research is as follows. The first, a moderating variable
called social welfare service appears so that there is it to satisfaction of life and
depression of the masculine old man who had a chronic disease in explaining it. The
second, living costs and goods assistance are effective against purity moderating effect.
The third, I was small relatively, or masculine old man was able to know that he felt
it so as to be unsatisfactory about social welfare service assistances with chronic
diseases. Therefore, effort is necessary in order to increase use of social welfare service
like the living costs and goods that are social welfare service in order to relax
depression of a man old man suffering by chronic diseases. And as community practice
doing it so that relax depression, and the aged aren't isolated in communities in order
to improve a satisfaction improvement of the aged. And therefore, social welfare service
program development is urgent, and will do it.