재가급여 수급자 69.4%, "아파도 살던 집에서 살겠다"…2025년 장기요양실태조사
69.4% of Home Care Recipients Want to Stay in Their Own Home Even as Health Declines, Korea's 2025 Long-Term Care Survey Finds
Part of the August 7, 2026 daily edition
보건복지부는 ‘2025년 장기요양실태조사’ 결과를 발표했습니다. 조사에 따르면 집에서 요양 서비스를 받는 재가급여 수급자의 69.4%는 건강이 나빠지더라도 지금 사는 집에서 계속 살기를 원한다고 답했습니다. 이는 2022년 조사의 49.8%보다 19.6%포인트 증가한 수치입니다. 반면 노인요양시설 입소를 희망한다는 응답은 같은 기간 28.7%에서 17.6%로 줄었습니다. 재가급여 수급자 가족의 43.5%도 건강이 악화되더라도 집에서 돌보겠다고 답했습니다. 전체 수급자 가운데 85세 이상이 차지하는 비율은 47.3%로 나타났습니다.
Translation
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has released the results of the "2025 Long-Term Care Survey." According to the survey, 69.4% of home-care benefit recipients — people who receive care services in their own homes — answered that they want to keep living in their current home even if their health gets worse. That figure is 19.6 percentage points higher than the 49.8% recorded in the 2022 survey. By contrast, the share saying they would prefer admission to a nursing home for older adults fell over the same period from 28.7% to 17.6%. Among family members of home-care recipients, 43.5% likewise answered that they would go on caring for them at home even if the recipient's health deteriorated. People aged 85 and over accounted for 47.3% of all recipients.
Vocabulary
- 수급자명사 (noun)benefit recipient
- 재가급여명사 (noun)home-based care benefit (care received at home)
- 실태조사명사 (noun)survey on actual conditions
- 입소명사 (noun)admission (into a facility)
- 악화되다동사 (verb)to worsen, deteriorate
- 비율명사 (noun)proportion, percentage
- 수치명사 (noun)figure, numerical value
Grammar points
N에 따르면according to N
Attaches to a noun that names a source of information — a survey, a report, an announcement, a person. It marks the whole following sentence as reported information rather than the writer's own claim, so news writing uses it constantly. The sentence it introduces often ends in a reported-speech form such as -다고 합니다 or -다고 답했습니다, though a plain formal ending is also common.
Example: 조사에 따르면 시민들은 새 정책을 잘 모릅니다.
According to the survey, citizens are not well aware of the new policy.
-더라도even if, even though
Attaches to a verb or adjective stem and concedes a condition: whatever happens in the first clause, the second clause still holds. It is stronger than -아도/어도 and often refers to a situation that is hypothetical or not yet real, which is why it fits 'even if my health gets worse'. The second clause typically states an intention or a wish.
Example: 비가 오더라도 행사는 예정대로 진행됩니다.
Even if it rains, the event will go ahead as scheduled.
-다고 답하다 / -겠다고 답하다answered that…
Indirect quotation: the quoted clause takes -다고 (statements) or -겠다고 (intentions, 'will do'), and the main verb reports it — 답하다, 말하다, 밝히다. Survey reporting relies on this form because it separates what respondents said from what the writer asserts. Note that -겠다고 keeps the speaker's own will inside the quote.
Example: 주민들은 이사 계획이 없다고 답했습니다.
The residents answered that they had no plans to move.
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