Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA (한국주거학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2008.11a
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- Pages.316-321
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- 2008
Ubiquitous Services in Residential Environment for Older Adults
노인을 위한 유비쿼터스 주거환경 계획요소에 관한 연구
- Published : 2008.11.28
Abstract
As people are aging, there are changes about biological psychological sociological. For these reasons, it will arise that changing body size, decreasing power of body, shrinking of living, becoming dull the senses, and feeling alienation loneliness sense of distance about society. Many studies have been done to give residential space supporting older adults' living. Recently many ubiquitous technologies are being development and applied to residential space. The purpose of this study was to classified ubiquitous services by housing supporting concept and older people's physical, psychological and social characteristics and to identify needs for ubiquitous services by older adults. The researches developed a survey instrument and collected the data from 260 people in July to August, 2008 who were more than 40 years old. The results of this study found that residents' current needs and suggested ubiquitous services in future residential environment for older adults.