Comparative Research on Intergenerational Living Arrangements and Quality of Life of Elderly People and Southeast Asia

这项研究进行了两年，有以下两个目的：（1）分别厘清日本、韩国、台湾、新加坡及马来西亚的长者生活质素及代间共居状况;及（2）具体探讨代间共居状况及广义的代间关系的影响，本研究于2001年10月及2001年12月在台湾及新加坡进行实地调查，以搜集有关老人生活质量及隔代同住的最新资料，并就研究现况进行访谈。在第二年的研究中，我们广泛收集了有关社会关系和生活质量的基础数据，重点是代际，特别是家庭间的共同居住状况，并编写了有关文件，资料和统计报告的参考书目。作为这两年研究的结论，我们根据收集到的文件和资料的分析，编写了一份关于“居住安排”研究框架的研究报告，以及针对五个目标国家的研究报告，并将其作为研究结果的合并报告提交，主要报告的标题如下：东亚和东南亚老年人代际生活安排和生活质量的比较研究。

This research was carried out for two years for the following two purposes: (1) to clarify the quality of life of elderly, and the intergenerational co-residence status of people in Japan, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia respectively, and (2) to concretely examine the effects of intergenerational co-residence status as well as intergenerational relationships in a broad sense, on the quality of life of elderly, by analyzing survey data.In October 2001 and December 2001 during the first year of the research, we carried out field surveys in Taiwan and Singapore in order to collect the latest data on the quality of life of elderly and intergenerational co-residence, and to conduct interviews concerning the present situation of research. In the second year of the research, we collected a wide range of documents of basic data on social relationships and quality of life, focusing on intergenerational, especially interfamilial co-residence status, and we prepared bibliography concerning documents, materials and statistical reports.As a conclusion of the research for these two years, we have prepared a research report on the research framework of "Living Arrangements" as well as research report for each of the five targeted countries based on the analysis of the collected documents and materials, and submit them as a combined report of research results with the main report under the following title: Comparative Research on Intergenerational Living Arrangements and Quality of Life of Elderly People in East and Southeast Asia.