A Study of Managing Life Activities of Family Carers and Support System for them

本研究通过对家庭照顾者在照顾老人、料理家务、工作、与邻居沟通、参与社区活动等生活活动中的管理方式，以及他们对经常使用的社会服务的感受进行调查，发现家庭照顾者为了完成所有的生活活动，都加强了劳动强度。他们中的大多数人别无选择，只能努力工作，这造成了身体和心理问题。此外，护理保险制度的服务和邻里的非正式服务在帮助老年人或解决老年人除护理问题以外的各种生活问题方面效果不佳，据认为，造成这些问题的原因之一是，迄今为止，传统的老年人社会福利政策只针对老年人的护理问题，忽视了家庭护理者的各种生活问题。最后，有人指出，有必要紧急制定针对家庭照料者及其生活问题的社会福利政策和社会服务。

The author researched about how family carers manage their life activities such as caring for the elderly , housekeeping, working, communicating with neighbors and participating to community events, and how they feel about the social services which they usually use.Through this survey, it was revealed that they strengthened labor intensity in order to perfom all their life activities. Most of them had no alternative but to struggle on their tasks, and it caused physical and psychological problems. Futhermore, The services of the care insurance system and informal services by neighbors were not effective in assist ing them or solving their various life problems except for care problems.It was considered that one of the reasons which caused these problems was that conventional social welfare policies for elderly people have targeted only the care problems of elderly people until now, the various life problems of family carers have been igonored. In conclusion, it was indicated that it was necessary to prepare social welfare policies and social services targeting for family carers and their life problems urgently.