노인의 경제적 부양과 신체적 부양 : 가족의무와 국가책임의 균형

Income Support and Care for the Elderly: The Balancing of Family Obligation and State Responsibility

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper examines how much the social support for the elderly is enough to make up for the decline of family support in our society. And it also evaluate to achieve the adequate balance between state-social responsibility and family responsibility (obligation) for elderly support. The elderly support is divided into income support and long-term care.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The first, in relation to income support, it is explored what the adequate balance between private-family support and public-social support against social risk of old-aged incomeless is. In this context, it is evaluated the family obligor standard of public assistance scheme and the role of public pension and security unit(household vs. individual) in old-aged income maintenance.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The second, in relation to long-term care, it is examined the role sharing between family as traditional care-giver and state as builder(enabler) social care system through introducing of Elderly Long-Term Care Insurance etc. Thus it is evaluated the balancing between state-social responsibility and family responsibility as intrinsic assumption of the design of Elderly Long-Term Care Insurance.