Chapter 3Results of Survey on Ulsan’s

Aging Readiness

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Chapter 3

Results of Survey on Ulsan’sAging Readiness

1. Background and necessity of survey

As policy services and the creation of an environment for the elderly to live without inconvenience is becoming the standard of city life quality improve-ment, local governments are showing interest in this matter against the back-drop of aging population and urbanization all around the world.

Ulsan is expected to become an aged society in 2024 and it is quickly becom-ing super-aged, therefore, establishing a countermeasure for this is urgently needed. In addition, the rate of baby boomers in Ulsan is the second highest among metropolitan cities, making it necessary to establish a plan for their sta-ble settlement in a local communities after retirement.

Future aging policies are expected to center on the concept of “aging in com-munity,” therefore, it is important to foster a local community with an appro-priate physical and social residential environment for all stages of life.

2. Purpose of Survey

The purpose of this survey is to gather fundamental data in order for Ulsan to cope with aging effectively by spreading awareness regarding the need to foster an Age-friendly City and researching the current state of aging readiness to de-velop Ulsan’s strategy

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Section 1 Survey Contents

1. Overall awareness regarding aging

Priority to create a good city for the elderly to live in

Necessity for a healthy and lively life after retirement

Degree of preparation for life after retirement

2. Experience and opinion on residential area

External environment and facilities

Traffic convenience

Residential security

Social participation and pastime

Utilization of human resources

Social unification and respect

Communication and information

Health and taking care of region

3. Residential area’s overall quality of life and satisfaction

Life quality in Ulsan

Satisfaction about current life

4. Respondent’s general information

Gender, age, place to live, period of time living in Ulsan, Marriage, Family members, and so forth

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Section 2 Survey Plan

1. Survey subjects

750 Ulsan citizens aged over 45- Target group: Ulsan citizens aged over 45 currently living in Ulsan (in 2018)- Target sample: Around 750 (approximately 150 people from 5 Gu and Gun

regions)- Way of distributing the samples: Stratified multistage sampling

(Setting of the number of samples in Jung-gu/Nam-gu/Dong-gu/Buk-gu/ Ulju-gun according to proportion of population by area, to survey specific re-gion, gender or different ages)

- Method of sampling: Convenience sampling and judgement sampling- (Implementation of survey towards targets who are considered to be suitable

according to sample distribution plan)

2. Survey method

Implemented face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire

Implemented self-administered survey when face-to-face interview was not pos-sible due to request of survey respondent

3. Survey period

Jun. – Jul. 2018

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Section 3 Survey Results

Social participation/human resources

Overall awareness

Maintaining health

Retirement savings

Social participation

Pastime Preparation for job

External environment and facilities

Foot path wheel chair

Convenience for the disabled

Safety of crosswalk

Walk signal Safety of crosswalks

The old and weak

parkingfortheelderlyandthedisabled

Residential security

Reasonable prices

Convenience for the old elderly

Enough public housings

Traffic convenience

Convenience for the disabled

Convenience of public transport

Enough parking space

Opportunities for

volunteering

Lifetime education

Access to information

Opportunity for public working

Finding a job

Lifetime education

Enough Sufficient income

Working environment

for the disabled

Information on job and

creating business

Education for re-getting a job entering

the workforce

Social unification and respect

Participation in making a decision-

making

Generation participation

Including the elderly old

Acknowledgement of

contribution

Offering services

Generation common

cooperation

Caring/Quality of Life

Proper timing of service

Emergency education

Independence education

Offering information

Health service

Communication /Information

Convenience for the disabled

Obtaining information

Background explanation

Speed Automatic response suitable

Proper timing of information

Adequacy