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A Study on the Housing for the Aged Living Alone and Living with Spouse Only in Rural Areas with Reference to the Succession and Improvement of the Traditional Rural Housing - Cases of the Rural Housing in Andong City  

Bae Jeong-Il (안동대학교 생활환경복지학과)
Katano Hiroshi (일본 큐유슈우대학 대학원 환경계획부문)
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Journal of the Korean housing association / v.16, no.6, 2005 , pp. 73-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study attempts to find out more efficient way of improving the housing conditions, by reviewing the existing improvement programs for the traditional rural housing and by aiming at finding advantages to inherit and correcting the inconvenience of the traditional forms of housing, through a survey on the housing conditions of the aged living alone and living with spouse only in the traditional rural housing. Research result shows that the openness and buffering zone of the traditional rural housing are relevant housing elements which provide the aged appropriate living space and therefore should be actively inherited and that the existing improvement programs have been largely inappropriate. But as the aged can hardly practice the appropriate way of improvement on their own, government policy consideration is urgently needed as part of the welfare policy for the aged.
Keywords
Korean Traditional Rural Housing; Housing for the Aged Living Alone and Living with Spouse Only;
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