• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.23-39
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• 2005

우리나라의 노인인구가 전체인구에서 차지하는 비율이 다른 선진국에 비해 빠르게 증가함에 따라 한국경제에 있어 노년소비자층이 중요한 수요자로 부상하고 있다. 이렇듯 노년소비자 시장규모의 확대와 노년생활을 위한 연금제도의 확산으로 노년소비자 구매력의 비중이 크게 향상되고 있으므로 기업이 시장에서 경쟁적 우위를 차지하기 위해서는 노년소비자 구매행동의 특성을 파악하고 이에 적합한 마케팅 전략을 개발해야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우리나라 노년소비자의 구매행동특성을 파악하기 위해 이 분야에 관한 선행연구들을 검토하고 미국의 노년소비자와 비교분석하기 위한 후레임을 작성하였으며, 미국 노년소비자의 구매행동에 관한 기존의 연구들에서 많은 변수를 추출하여 작성한 설문으로 약품/건강 보조식품, 식품/주류, 의류/신발, 전기/전자제품, 또한 보험회사, 종합병원, 금융기관 등 특정 서비스업체 선호이유와 식품점, 약국 등 점포선정 이유를 조사하여 이를 미국노년소비자의 경우와 비교분석하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서의 조사 분석 결과는 이미 고령사회에 진입한 미국의 시장환경과는 차이가 있으나, 우리나라 노년소비자를 대상으로 마케팅활동을 전개하는 기업들이 소비자 구매행동에 관한 마케팅 전략을 수립하는 데 지표로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.736-743
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to research the current home delivered meal (HDM) service programs for seniors living in the community. Fifty seven centers which operated a HDM service program were surveyed with respect to their administrative structure, menu management, food purchasing and production management, hygiene and equipment and facility. -Statistical data analyses were completed using the SAS 8.1 program for descriptive analysis and t-test. The results showed that 55 percent of the study group were from 70 to 79 years old. All of the participants received free HDM. As a result of the meal cost analysis, the meal cost at 56.1% of the HDM service centers was from ￦2,000 to ￦2,499 per meal. A total of 68.4% of the HDM service centers were operated without the services of a dietitian. According to the menu analysis, all nutrients except Vitamin B2 were at levels of more than 33% of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for Koreans. Although 96.6% of the HDM service centers required a therapeutic diet menu for the health of the elderly recipients, 68% of the directors responded that they could not afford to serve therapeutic meal. Food purchasing, menu planning and other foodservice management processes were handled by non-professionals, such as volunteers, cooks or social workers. Forty two percent of the HDM service centers never used standard recipes. For determining portion sizes, 75.4% of the HDM service centers depended on personal experience. Finally, the current HDM service programs for the homebound elderly were not operated systematically. It is suggested that professionally trained personnel should be included among the staff members to provide a more effective HDM service. The HDM service programs should be supported financially and systematically by the government.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제47권
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• pp.310-333
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• 2001

The purposes of this research were 1) to investigate the characteristics of the meal service participants; 2) to evaluate the food service utilization of the elderly; 3) to identify major factors that affect food service satisfaction of the participants in Chungchongbuk-Do. For doing this, 309 subjects were selected and the survey research method was adopted. The characteristics of the meal service participants were similar to the characteristics of general elderly population in Korea. The public assistant recipients were under representative in this sample, that is, most of elderly people who participated in meal service consisted of non public assistant recipients. It meant that meal service was not provided to low-income elderly people. The health status of the elderly people was stable to be able to attend to the meal service organizations. The most important reason to use a meal service was to see their friends. It showed that meal services played an important role to provide support systems to the elderly people in community. Thus, meal services should be provided to the elderly people with social services. In order to analyze the factors influencing food service satisfaction, multiple regression analysis was employed. The results showed that physical activity, contact with friends who met in meal service program, and the number of social services were the important variables to predict meal service satisfaction in this study. These findings contributed to a better understanding of developing a meal service planning. Several improvement strategies were recommended to provide effective meal services. First, socio-economical characteristics of the elderly should be considered to provide appropriate services. Second, meal services should be provided to the elderly people with social services. Third, home delivery meal services should be available to the home-bound elderly.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.727-729
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• 2017

통계청과 보건복지가족부에 따르면 우리나라는 65세 이상 고령인구 비율이 세계 평균치보다 높게 추정되며 이미'고령화 사회(Ageing Society)'에 접어든 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 예상보다 이른 시기에 정보사회에 도달하여 국민들의 삶의 질이 개선되었을 것으로 추정된다. 그러나 고령층은 젊은 층과 달리 새로운 기계에 선뜻 접근하기 어려워 정보의 접근 및 이용에 있어 뚜렷한 차이를 보이고 있어 세대 간 정보 격차(Digital Divide) 현상을 야기 시키고 있다. 이러한 현상을 해결하기 위해 고령층을 위한 음성인식 기반의 스마트 미러 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현한 시스템은 음성인식을 통하여 조명제어 및 날씨, 지하철 시간 정보 조회 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 구현한 시스템을 통하여 고령층에게 새로운 기계에 대한 접근 용이성을 제공하여 새로운 시대 변화에 동참하는 느낌을 주고 정보를 얻어 생활이 편리하게 만들어 준다는 효과가 기대된다.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.275-284
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to provide useful insights into community-level support services for family caregivers in Korea by comparing them with the services in the United States. Similar to most developed countries, life expectancy has led to rapid population aging in Korea over the last several decades. However, despite increased social needs of long-term care for the elderly, many elderly Koreans are still dependent on their family for the long-term care. Yet, existing support programs for family caregivers are very limited. As a result, family caregivers often suffer from a lack of financial resources and emotional support. In this study, we comprehensively review the extensive literature, including relevant studies and documents of community-level support services for family caregivers of the elderly at home in Korea and the United States. One of the most important differences is that compared to Korea, diverse services based on the law of NFCSP to support the family caregivers, such as counseling, organization of support group, and educating have been available in the United States since 2000. Additionally, the legal definition of family caregivers in the United State is broader than that in Korea, where family caregivers are limited to those who are related by blood or marriage. Therefore, more caregivers are eligible for support programs and benefit from the programs in the United States. The findings of the study suggest that policy makers in Korea should legislate for diverse and comprehensive services for family caregivers. Further, it is necessary to define legal terms for family caregivers more broadly to extend beneficiaries of the programs.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.331-339
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 노령화 사회에서 노인들의 기본 건강과 생활을 케어 할 수 있는 홈 웰니스 로봇 플랫폼을 개발한다. 실내 환경에서 웰니스 서비스에 초점을 맞추어 로봇 및 센서 플랫폼을 구현한다. 로봇플랫폼에서는 정밀제어 이동기능과 정교한 로봇 팔 및 핸드를 개발하고 인간친화형 로봇구조로 설계되어진다. 이동로봇은 옴니휠 기반의 쾌속 시스템으로 제어된다. 로봇팔은 섬세한 조작기능을 수행할 수 있도록 인간의 팔과 유사한 구조로 구현한다. 센서 플랫폼에서는 RF태그와 스테레오 카메라를 활용하여 로봇자신과 대상물체의 위치 인식시스템을 구축한다. 정확한 위치와 자세 인식을 위하여 센서 융합 알고리즘이 제안된다. 끝으로 웰니스 로봇 플랫폼의 좋은 성능들이 실시간 시험 구동을 통하여 확인되어 진다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.459-467
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• 2014

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to suggest the strategies for improvement of home-delivered meal services for the elderly, to identify reasons for recipients to get started with the services and to evaluate the attitude, acceptability and adaptation of recipients to the services from the perspective of life context. Methods: The data was collected through face-to-face in-depth interviews with eighteen low-income elderly recipients of home-delivered meals and analyzed using a qualitative research method. Results: The results were deduced as four themes which comprised of long-term vulnerable socioeconomic contexts resulted in entry to the services, conflicting acceptability to the services, passive adaptation to taking the services, and positive practices to cope with supplement free meals or other services. The service participation was initiated because of a combination of prolonged, vulnerable socioeconomic contexts, including poverty and unexpected life events such as diseases, disability, living alone, aging and unemployment. With regard to taking the services, conflicting acceptability was observed: positive aspects including saving living cost and good quality of meals, and negative aspects including lack of a tailored service and feeling of stigma. Although the recipients needed an individualized service, they did not express their needs and demands for the services and they accepted the unavailability as an accustomed, prolonged vulnerable socioeconomic context. With regard to lack of tailored services, either self-solution such as modification of eating patterns or community-based network and services were used. Conclusions: We suggest that a system to concretely identify recipients' attitude, acceptability and adaptation for home-delivered meal services should be developed in the establishment of a tailored nutrition support system for the low-income elderly.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2008년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.598-601
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• 2008

대소변을 인지하지 못하여 대소변 처리를 스스로 처리할 수 없는 사람은 보호자(또는 간병인)의 도움으로 대소변을 처리하고 있다. 대소변을 했을 경우 즉시 기저귀를 갈아 주어야 기저귀의 젖음으로 인한 불쾌감, 욕창, 습진 등 엉덩이의 짖무름으로 인한 질병의 발생을 방지할 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 사람들은 대개 스스로 의사표현을 하는 것이 불가능하여 대소변에 대한 의사표현을 할 수 없거나 수치심에 의해 참음으로서 보호자가 즉시 대소변의 유무를 확인할 수 없는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 연구를 통하여 대소변을 자동으로 감지하여 보호자(또는 간병인)에게 대소변 여부를 핸드폰 문자로 즉시 알려주는 u-Care 시스템을 개발함으로써 간병 서비스의 질적 향상을 가져올 수 있으며, 간병비 증가에 따른 사회복지비용을 절감함으로써 저소득층 노인 및 독거노인 등 사회적 의존계층에 대한 복지 혜택을 증진할 수 있을 것이다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.497-521
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• 2012

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the effect of social capital, health risk behavior and health status on medical care utilization by the elderly. The data and Research method Data were obtained from the 4th wave survey of the Korea Welfare Panel Study. 4,087 household members aged 65 years and over were subject to analysis. Descriptive statistics are used to describe the basic features of the data in a study. we performed a structural equation modeling(SEM) analysis to evaluate the effect of social capital and mediating effect of health risk behavior and health status. Results Results showed that factors related to medical care utilization of the elderly were different depending on types of service (inpatient and outpatient service) except health status. Age, higher social capital, more health-risk behavior and poorer health status were associated with increased use of inpatient service. Social capital was found to have a positive direct effect on it. Also, social capital had an indirect effect on reducing use of inpatient services by improving health status. On the other hand, lower age and higher household income tended to increase use of outpatient service, while higher social capital and higher health status were inversely related. Social capital had a direct effect and an indirect effect on reducing use of outpatient service and, at that time, health status played a mediating role. Conclusions Social capital may contribute to improve health status and indirectly reduce medical care utilization of the elderly by enhancing their health status. These results provide evidence that more policy and strategy considerations should be needed for the elderly to strengthen their social capital in order to enhance their levels of health and more efficient utilization of medical care.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.2354-2360
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 가장 널리 사용 가능한 분야는 헬스케어 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 마이닝 기반 멀티 에이전트 헬스케어 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 환자의 몸으로부터 생성된 센싱 데이터를 마이닝을 이용하여 진단 패턴을 뽑아내어 정상 상태, 긴급 상태, 응급 상황으로 분류할 수 있다. 이는 실시간으로 센싱되는 엄청난 양의 생체 데이터를 처리할 수 있으며, 환자의 병력 데이터와 비교, 분석한다. 이를 위해 연관 규칙 탐사를 2가지 데이터 그룹으로 구분하여 적용한다. 첫 번째는, 기존의 방대한 의료 병력 데이터로 두 번째는, 체온, 혈압, 맥박등과 같은 센서로부터 센싱한 환자의 실시간 생체데이터로 분류한다. 제안하는 시스템은 PDA 같은 모바일 디바이스 등을 통하여 병원과 멀리 떨어진 지역에서도 긴급 상황을 판단하여 처리할 수 있다. 또한 환자(노인)의 상태를 실시간으로 모니터링 함으로써 요구되는 시간과 비용을 단축하게 되고, 의료 서비스의 지원에 대한 효율성을 높이게 된다.