• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.173-179
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of human rights awareness and types of employers on the service quality of long-term care facilities for the elderly. In this relationship, the study is also to analyze the mediating effects of self-efficacy. The results showed that human righrs awareness had significant direct effects on the service quality, while types of employers did not. Additionally, the mediating effects of self-efficacy was found to be partially significant; mediating effects of self-confidence and task-preference as sub-factors of self-efficacy were significant beween human rights awareness and service quality. Based on the results, it was suggested to develop an education system that raises human rights sensitivity and to secure professionalism through continuing education on human rights.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.14 no.6 s.53
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• pp.157-167
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• 2005

The demands of nursing home for the dementia are rapidly increasing. However, there are no enough nursing homes and design guidelines for it. This study was intended to examine the needs of the staff for the nursing home design and suggest the design guidelines of the Korean nursing home for the dementia. The subjects were 15 nurses and 18 care givers who worked in D hospital for the elderly with dementia in Busan. Data were collected by the self-administered questionnaire. The findings were as follows; First, the most important design element in nursing home for the dementia which the staff mentioned was 'healing environment' and then 'function' and 'maintenance' Second, the care-givers were more satisfied with their facility design than the nurses. Third, the staff pointed out that 'the relation between individual room and nursing station', namely, short distance between them, and 'enough wandering space' had to be considered at first in design process of nursing home with dementia. Also, the comfort and intimate interior mood, fresh air and sunlight were also pointed out as the important elements in nursing home design for the dementia.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.43 no.10 s.212
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• pp.125-139
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to provide basic information about the program space planning of skilled nursing facilities for the elderly in order to consider elderly health and diversity and to improve their rehabilitation ability. A mail survey was undertaken and 58 out of 78 facilities $(74.4\%)$ responded to the questionnaire. The answers of $56 (71.8\%)$ were used for analysis. The results of the study were as follows. Many programs, especially exercise, recreation, and facility events programs that require dynamic activity, were conducted in the lounge of the facilities because that area was wide with various equipments such as tables, sofas, and sound facilities, and did not require any huge movements of the elderly since it was very close to the elderly individual rooms. The art and human knowledge programs, managed with small groups, were peformed in separate program rooms or elderly individual room so that the elderly could pay attention to the programs. On the other hand, as for the design elements, the spaces for the art and human knowledge programs required good lightings and separate program rooms. The area of the spaces for the exercise, recreation and facility events programs was found to be the most problematic element, even though they were performed in the comparatively wide lounge. For future research, a field observation study is suggested to analyze the detail relations among the program spaces.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.31-45
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to provide basic information about the facility planning to reduce elderly isolation and to improve their rehabilitation ability. Four re%archers observed the using behavior of the elderly residents in the corridor and lounge of 5 facilities. The results of the study were as follows. The using rate of the lounge wis higher than that of the corridor since most of the elderly were controlled by the staffs at the lounge. The facility could decrease the crowd of the lounge by arranging the sofa at the corridor-especially surrounding the atrium. The use rate in the lounge was very dependent on the time of the day, because its use was influenced mainly by daily schedule, and this resoled in it being largely inactive most of the time. A counter plan is needed to encourage natural interaction among the elderly. Individual or small group activities are required in addition to the regular programs. Since the furniture arrangements_(sofas and tables) at the corridor could induce elderly isolation and inactivity, various equipments should be arranged for the self-controlled activities. The indirect participation in the regular activities, which are usually conducted in the lounge, should also be considered in the corridor so that the elderly could observe them at any places.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.143-153
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• 2004

This research aimed to assess nursing homes for the elderly with geriatric diseases in Japan, and to prepare the knowledge basis to develop nursing home for the elderly with geriatric diseases in Korea. For this, researcher visited 5 facilities in Tokyo from October 3 to October 9 in 2002, collected data by observations, interviews, and visual materials by taking photographs. Visual materials were analyzed according to the environmental assessment matrix consisted of supportiveness, flexibility, efficiency in perception, accessibility, safety, amenity, and social Interaction that were assorted and were given a name by these researchers in the process of this research. Among the characteristics of environmental design of the analysis cases, 992 items picked out from 722 visual materials were used in the analysis. The data were analyzed using the frequency and percentage with SPSS 11 program. The analysis results were the fellowing. The characteristics of recent nursing home design in Japan tended to focus on supportiveness, amenity, and efficiency in perception but to leave much desired in flexibility and safety. In each space, space to support outdoor activities tended to focus on efficiency in perception, space to support living activities tended to focus on amenities, space to support treatment and living tended to focus on supportiveness, space to support administration and operation tended to focus on supportiveness, and space to support movement tended to focus on amenities.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.139-143
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristic of living environment on nursing homes and to examine the current status and problems of the nursing homes by looking into the differences in the spatial uniqueness of living environment in relation to the characteristics of the nursing home. This study utilized a mail survey during July 29 - August 31, 2006 that included a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire largely dealt with the general feature of the facility and the elderly who live there, and the spatial feature of the facility. The study limited its survey to those facilities that were registered to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which opened after 1995 and that had the capacity of more than 30 people. As a result, the questionnaire was sent to the directors of 344 facilities who were in charge of the nursing home operation and planning. 182 facilities returned the questionnaire and the study used'182 questionnaires for data analysis. The study used the SPSS 12 program to draws the frequency, percentage of the answers and utilized the cross-tab, t-test, ANOVA to analyze the differences.

• 한국노년학
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.1239-1261
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• 2010

The main purposes of the study were to identify factors affecting health-related quality of life of elderly stroke survivors, and to suggest social work interventions for improving their quality of life. The participants were 328 elderly stroke survivors over 55 years old recruited from 18 long-term care hospitals and 13 nursing care facilities in Chung-Nam Province, Korea. The data was collected through a direct survey method from Dec. 16, 2008 to Jan. 17, 2009. Statistical analysis revealed that the overall health-related quality of life among participants was relatively low, especially in the social relationships domain. As a result of hierarchical multiple regression analysis, depression emerged as the most significant predictor of elderly stroke survivors' health-related quality of life, followed by financial burden in future, activities of daily living, acceptance of disability, comorbidity, and major financial supporter(spouse). Health-related quality of life of elderly stroke survivors in long-term care facilities was affected by a variety of variables from disease-related factors to environmental ones. Particularly psychosocial variables were the most powerful factors to predict HRQOL of elderly stroke survivors. Based on the results, social work implications were discussed in the context of developing clinical strategies to alleviate elderly stroke survivors' health-related quality of life in long-term care facilities. Living with chronic illness and disability is a great challenge to the elderly. Most of all long-term residence in care facilities can cause deterioration of quality of life in old age. From now on, studies on health-related quality of life of elderly with chronic illness and disability should be activated in social work field.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.2616-2623
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is investigate the sociology population variable and social support system(emotional, financial, informal and evaluative support) with regards to the death anxiety and provide a basic data to relieve the fear of death in the elderly special nursing service. 300 old people who are living in Daeg-gu city and Kyong-buk province were selected and interviewed under their agreement which they are fully aware of the purpose and the intention of this study. Interviews for study were performed by structured questionnaire which consists of general area(11-question), social support area(emotional support 7-question, financial support 6-question, informal support 6-question and evaluative support 6-question) and death-anxiety(20-question). Statistical analysis was carried out with SPSS 12.0 program, which was applied to descriptive statistics and regression analysis to analyze the questionnaire.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.37-47
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• 1998

In Korea, it is urgently required to develop the health care facilities and services for People with dementia. The progression of dementia is associated with a gradual decline in functional, cognitive, emotional, and social abilities. Therefore, architectural design for People elderly with dementia should be focused to maintain and preserve this abilities. This study aims to derive the design guidelines of the ward and patient roon unit planning to maintain this abilities in the health care facilities for People with dementia. For this, investigation and analysis through the case studies of domestic and foreign facilities and P.O.E of domestic facilities were performed.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.6 no.11
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• pp.79-86
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• 2000

According to the increase of medical demand for aged, many of geriatric hospitals have been needed. But Korea has been short of them and has not prepared the planning guidelines. This paper aimes to identify the design concept of geriatric hospitals and provides the basic data for architectural planning of these hospitals.