This study is the research on the actual conditions of conjugal violence in elderly Couples.
For this research, it was interviewed with 244 participants who attend silver-schools in religious communities and who are the ages over 60 year-old using welfare centers for the elder in Daegu (Metropolitan City). SPSSWIN in version 14.0. was used for statistical process.
The issues on this study are as following;
First, how the aged recognize the experiences related to the violence in their childhood?
Second, what about the status of doing violence between the aged couples?
Third, what about the status of victims of the violence between the aged couples?
The results in the research are as following.;-
First, it shows(is found) that, refer to the experiences of the aged related to some violences in their childhood, there are much more experience cases of verbal and physical violences they had directly, than indirectly through watching between their parents.
Second, it shows that verbal violences are committed more than the physical ones in the patterns of doing violence between the aged couples, which means that in case of the elder, they use psychological violences more to give menaces or fears to their partner by words or tools, because, as for the aged, they are too old biologically to use their physical power.
Third, the verbal violence is occurred more than the physical one, as for the type of victims of violences, as well as the type of offending ones.
In accordance with the results of this research, it is suggested with the followings.;-
First, in order to prevent from the violence between the aged couples, a preventive discipline of domestic violence should put in operation to thses targets.
Second, it should be set up a guidance office at the welfare centers for the elder to consult with couples' problems and provide the advices and educations accordingly to eliminate of couples' troubles and improve their good-relationships.
Third, various programs need to be developed so that aged couples can join together into the facilities such as welfare centers of the elder or silver-schools they use.
Fourth, it should be appointed the person in charge of consulting with the violence in aged couples at nursing homes or public health centers and so forth, and established the supportable system to supply the injured parties and harmers with relative aids.
Finally, we should find ways to intervene between the problem problems of adaption and problems of emotion of children, as well as developing programs to cure family for the children exposed to domestic violence.