Korean society has already gone 'Aging Society' with old people whose ages are larger than the Age 65, equivalent to 7.2% of total population as of 2000, and the population of the later aged is abruptly increasing. According, the number of the aged requiring long-term care is increasing.
Traditionally, an ethical view and moral view of Korea has said that the family members must sacrifice themselves for nursing and caring for old people. But, the family structure has changed into a nuclear family. Also, owing to an increasing education level of woman and extended opportunity of economic activities, the society cannot force woman to nurse old people anymore, and the society hasn't held itself responsible for nursing old people because of the fiscal crisis of social assistance system which was caused to the exploding cost of nursing for the old people.
Therefor, the necessity and assignment of the long-term care introduction is actually gathering strength in response to the necessity on a socialization of the long-term care.
Accordingly, the government recognized this reality and is established by the Elderly Long-term care Insurance law in 2007. the purpose of this study is to study to successful carry the Elderly Long-term care Insurance System in 2008 .
In result, the Elderly Long-term care Insurance System must become the general social Insurance System for the whole people, and be completed in the stable and continuative system. For the purpose, the constitution of the systematic infrastructure need ; the government must support public finance, and the people must constitute to response, and finally the government must solve problem in the result of a third model project.