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Dementia Strategies using Welfare-technology

복지기술을 활용한 치매전략 방안

  • Han, Jeong-Won (Dept. of Aging and Social Work, Catholic University of Pusan)
  • 한정원 (부산가톨릭대학교 노인복지보건학과)
  • Received : 2022.04.27
  • Accepted : 2022.05.20
  • Published : 2022.05.28
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Abstract

South Korea faces elderly care crisis with both low fertility rate and rapid ageing rate. Long-term care insurance in 2008 has taken care burden from family to nation. However, few options, lack of tailored services, and unstable community care plan caused blankness of care in some areas. Especially, increasing dementia rate has become an emergent social issue. Welfare technology could be a useful alternative to fill out the gap between demand and supply. Using FGI method on two groups(high-risk dementia group and MCI group), intimacy, accessibility and preventive way of dementia with welfare technology are analysed in this paper. Despites of a few differences of dementia progress, interests towards technology are expressed. More suggestions using TV and normal telephone to improve daily independence are presented as well. Amongst MCI group, help-service for technology-use at ADS and linkage ways of in-home services are also suggested.

한국은 저출생 현상과 급속한 고령화로 인하여 노인돌봄 위기에 처해 있다. 2008년 노인장기요양보험이 본격적으로 실시되면서 노인돌봄의 사회화가 이루어지게 되었으나 다양하지 못한 서비스 선택권, 맞춤형 돌봄의 부족, 커뮤니티 케어의 불안정함 등으로 돌봄의 공백은 아직 사회문제로 남아있다. 또한 고령화의 진전에 따라 치매유병율의 증가는 새로운 사회위기이다. 이러한 상황에서 복지기술은 부족한 자원과 증가하는 수요의 공백을 메꾸어줄 미래의 중요한 대안이다. 본 논문에서는 지역에서 다양하게 제공되고 있는 치매서비스를 경험한 바 있는 경증치매노인 집단그룹면접, 치매고위험군 집단그룹면접을 통해 복지기술에 대한 친밀성, 접근성, 치매예방방안 등을 파악하였다. 치매 정도에 따른 차이는 있으나 두 그룹 모두 복지기술을 활용한 치매서비스에 관심이 높았다. 특히, 일상생활에서 자립적 훈련은 친밀한 도구인 TV나 전화를 활용하는 방안이 제시되었고 경증치매노인군의 경우 데이케어센터에서 기술활용을 위한 도움서비스와 가정 내 연계방안의 필요성이 제시되었다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF-2019S1A5A2A01046384).

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