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This study examines the condition on which elderly Koreans tie to their family and community. Main subjects of the study are to develop a typology with regard to the elderly’s everyday based contact to family and community and to find factors and functions which differentiate various types of social...

This study examines the condition on which elderly Koreans tie to their family and community. Main subjects of the study are to develop a typology with regard to the elderly’s everyday based contact to family and community and to find factors and functions which differentiate various types of social ties from one another. Elderly Korean’s ties are classified into traditional extended family-based, modified family-based, community-based, multiple, and disengaged ones. The most prevailing type is based on the traditional family tie. Ties to children are made exclusively by coresidence not by geographic nearness. Also, most elderly Koreans fail to maintain a closely-knit tie to their community. The strength or weakness of social ties is significantly influenced by the elderly’s residence, health status, and socioeconomic characteristics. Elderly Koreans living in urban areas are more likely than those in rural areas to preserve a close family and community network. Results show that the elderly in a poor health are more likely than those in a good health to be disengaged from both their family and community. This suggests that current family and community have only limited role providing care for the elderly in need of health care. It is also noted that elderly Koreans relatively poor in economic status are more likely to maintain the traditional family tie. Results also show that ties to family and community contribute to promoting the elderly’s subjective wellbeing in a hierarchical manner; the elderly maintain greater life satisfaction through family ties than community ties, through coresidence with children than contact in a nearness to them, and through multiple ties than single one.