• Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 2019

Owing to the upward shift in age structure, there is an increasing number of spinal diseases specific to elderly patients. Elderly spinal patients typically have a poor general condition with several medical comorbidities, low bone mineral density, more extensive and severe degeneration, and less effective treatment outcomes than young patients. This is why spinal physicians need to establish interventional nonsurgical treatment modalities for elderly patients with spinal disease. The objective of this study was to define the spinal disorders problematic to elderly patients and discuss the nonsurgical treatments for each subject.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.375-376
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• 2017

본 연구는 은퇴 후 신체적 건강이 시간이 지남에 따라 어떤 변화양상을 나타내는지, 은퇴 후 신체적 건강에 영향을 주는 것으로 알려진 은퇴 특성(은퇴시점, 은퇴자발성 여부) 변인이 은퇴 후 신체적 건강의 궤적에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하고자 하는 목적으로 실시되었다. 분석 자료는 국민노후보장패널 3차시(2009년), 4차시(2011년), 5차시(2013년) 종단자료이며, 2,857명을 대상으로 잠재성장모형 분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 중 고령은퇴자의 신체적 건강은 시간의 흐름의 변화를 알아보기 위해 무조건부 모형을 통해 확인한 결과, 중 고령은퇴자들은 시간이 지남에 따라 더 높은 수준의 ADL 값을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 중 고령은퇴자의 신체적 건강변화와 관련이 있는 은퇴특성은 무엇인지 조건부 모형을 통해 알아본 결과, 은퇴 특성 변수로는 조기은퇴자일 때, 은퇴가 비자발적일 때, 건강상 이유로 은퇴했을 때 더 높은 ADL 초기값을 보였다. 또한 변화궤적 영향요인을 살펴본 결과, 은퇴특성에서는 어떤 변수도 유의성을 보이지 않았고, 인구사회학적 변수 중에서는 연령이 높을수록, 소득이 높을수록 ADL의 증가속도가 더욱 가파른 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.233-246
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• 2013

This paper investigates both the spatial patterns of aging population and its formal regional structure in 2010. The results are as follows: first, aging index shows high values in remote mountainous and coastal regions while showing relatively low values in Capital Region and large provincial cities. Aging index has low negative correlation with such variables as population increasing rate, ratio of youth population, ratio of apartments, and ratio of newly built housing. However, aging index shows high positive correlation with variables including ratio of single unit house, ratio of aged peoples' house ownerships, ratio of welfare recipients, ratio of old housing, and number of public healthcare facilities. Secondly, four factors are identified from factor analysis including aging factor, welfare factor, economic vitality factor, and new town factor. The aging level of a region is negatively related to the strong level of those factors. Thirdly, cluster analysis results in four different types of formal regions including rural mountainous coastal type, rural non-capital region type, large metropolitan type, and provincial industrial city type.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.591-594
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• 2015

정보화시대에 접어듦에 따라 많은 공공기관에서 고령층을 위한 정보화교육을 실시하고 있다. 대부분의 공공기관에서 정보화교육을 신청하기 위해 회원가입 또는 본인인증을 요구하고 있고 회원가입을 위해서는 본인인증이 본인인증을 위해서는 본인명의의 휴대폰 또는 아이핀이 필요하다. 하지만 휴대폰을 이용한 본인인증의 경우 본인명의의 휴대폰이 없을 경우 본인인증을 받을 수 없고 아이핀 발급의 경우 고령층 사용자가 발급하기에는 복잡한 것이 사실이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 비회원 신청을 기반으로 신규 신청자와 재신청자를 구분하여 본인인증정보를 관리하는 시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다. 신규 신청자의 경우 휴대폰인증, 아이핀인증, 방문인증 중 인증방법을 선택할 수 있으며 추첨 시 선정자의 성명, 생년월일, 성별을 조합하여 인증코드를 생성하여 저장 후 재신청시 해당 인증코드를 확인하여 본인인증 없이 교육신청이 가능하도록 구현하였다.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2010

This study examines the characteristics of traffic accidents involving elderly pedestrians by analyzing relevant data vis-à-vis fatal pedestrian accidents and proposes solutions to reduce such accidents. We analyzed 3,853 cases of fatal accidents involving elderly pedestrians and 1,786 cases involving younger pedestrian (these cases reflect accidents that occurred from 2005 to 2008). The results show that accidents involving the elderly occur more frequently in rural areas than urban areas, especially in autumn; this condition applies even in situations where the elderly exhibit compensation behaviors such as walking on safer roads. We found that elderly pedestrians exhibit a defective behavior in crossing roads, especially in complicated road conditions where intersections and turning/reversing vehicles represent a menacing threat. These characteristics could be explained by the degenerated physical/mental ability of the elderly and by psychological factors such as reduced level of self-confidence.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.337-357
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• 2008

This study examines the characteristics of population ageing and the employment of aged workers in Seoul. Population indexes such as aged/child ratio and longevity degree are analyzed to identify the time-spatial changes and differentiation of population ageing by Gu. Job offerers, job seekers and employees related to the aged workers are also analyzed using data from Center of Job Placement for the Aged in Seoul. The results indicate that population ageing of Seoul has progressed faster than other regions in recent years. In addition, regional differences in tendency of population ageing is obvious even within Seoul. The percentage of unskilled laborer is much higher in Seoul compared with other regions. There is geographical differentiation in employment of aged workers among regions within Seoul. The employment opportunity of the aged is high in core economic areas of Seoul, while low in the outer residential area. This shows geographical mismatch between job offerers and seekers, which means that it is difficult for aged workers to get the jobs near to their residence. Accordingly, governmental support and intervention is needed considering their lower mobility.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.499-505
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• 2020

Compared to other manufacturing industries, the food manufacturing industry has a relatively large number of women casualties compared to men, and the number is steadily increasing. The age of casualties is also increasing as the society enters into an aging society. This is also evident in the food manufacturing sector. Therefore, this study conducted a survey on the safety and health awareness of workers by age and gender at small workplaces in the food manufacturing industry. Among them, we would like to focus on elderly women workers and analyze their accident characteristics to suggest ways to reduce the accident rate.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.195-210
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to understand characteristics of groups vulnerable to extreme heat and to reduce mortality caused by high temperature. For this purpose, relationship between socioeconomic factors and mortality-threshold temperatures were studied. The study area was limited to Seoul (South Korea) and climate data from 2000 to 2010 was used. Our results indicate that mortality-threshold temperatures for regions with a high proportion of aging population and a low proportion of aging population are $27.6^{\circ}C$ and $27.9^{\circ}C$, respectively. It was also found that a relative size of welfare dependant population did not affect mortality-threshold temperatures. However, regions with a high proportion of aging and welfare dependant population experienced $0.7^{\circ}C$ lower mortality-threshold temperature than other regions. This implies that low income and older people in Seoul are more easily affected by high temperature. Thus, this study suggests that it needs a policy targeted to low income and aging population to decrease mortality rate caused by extreme heat.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.272-280
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to analyze characters and determinant factors of the life satisfaction of the older adults with disabilities so as to provide suggestion for improving the quality of life. I used the data on 8th Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled(PSED). The total number of respondents was 452, 126 respondents of one-person households and 326 respondents of multi-person households. The data was analyzed using SPSS Win 24.0 program and utilizing $x^2$test, ANOVA, logistic regression analysis. First, The characteristics of older adults with disabilities was man, married, mild disorder, physical external disorder, non-basis living security recipient, unemployment and the level of life satisfaction was 3.27. Second, The one-person households group showed female, non-married, severe disorder, lower acceptance of disability, lower health status, higher help daily living activity, higher discrimination experience, unemployment, lower income, basis living security recipient, lower position than multi-person group. Third, acceptance of disability, health status, social activity, religion were found to have a significant effect on the life satisfaction of one-person households. And acceptance of disability, health status, position were found to have a significant effect on the life satisfaction of multi-person households. Base on the results of this study, suggested for improving the quality of life of the older adults with disabilities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Food and Cookery Science Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.1-17
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• 2003

지난 1세기동안 전세계적으로 평균수명(출생시의 평균여명)이 약 30년 정도 연장되어 1999년 현재 60세 이상의 고령 인구가 5억8천만 명에 이르렀으며, 2020년까지는 10억 명을 돌파할 것이라고 한다. 이는 같은 기간동안에 전세계적으로 예상되는 인구 증가율이 50％ 미만인 것에 비해 훨씬 높은 75％의 증가로서 전례가 없는 일이며, 모든 정책 입안자들의 즉각적인 주의가 요구되는 문제이다. 한편 우리 나라도 예외일 수 없어, 통계청의 인구추계 자료에 의하면 1969년 948.5 천명으로 3.0％에 불과했던 우리 나라의 65세 이상 고령 인구는 2000년 현재 3,395천명으로 전체 인구의 7.2％에 달했으며, 2019년에는 전체 인구의 14.4％에 까지 이르러 고령사회(aged society)로의 진입이 예상되고 있다. (중략)