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According to a survey on the elderly, the majority of elderly people prefer to spend their golden years receiving care at their place of residence rather than entering a nursing facility. However, if their health is frail or semi-dependent and they need care but do not have family members to take care of them, there is no other option other than a nursing facility. Since the introduction of long-term care insurance for the elderly, the increase in nursing facility protection is causing negative results by lowering the quality of life of the elderly and increasing social costs. As a solution to this situation, supportive housing for the elderly rather than nursing facilities is emerging as an alternative. The purpose of this study is to identify awareness of supportive housing for the elderly and priority supply areas in order to preemptively respond to a super-aged society and provide stable community housing for the elderly, and use it as important basic data when promoting future projects. To this end, we analyzed the awareness of public and private experts on the general indicators needed when establishing the elderly supportive housing project plan. In addition, we analyzed the demand for care by identifying the elderly population who are consumers of supportive housing, and analyzed the supply of care by analyzing the status of elderly welfare facilities with similar functions to supportive housing. By analyzing the discrepancy between care demand and care supply, we analyzed priority supply areas that urgently need supportive housing for the elderly. In a reality where we are expected to enter a super-aged society and face a rapid population aging, we are identifying the discrepancy between supply and demand for elderly care in order to improve the quality of life of the elderly and reduce social costs. Efforts to preemptively respond to a super-aged society through research and analysis of priority supply areas for supportive housing for the elderly are no longer an option but a necessity.
Kim et al. (Sat,) studied this question.