• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.275-280
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• 2010

Propose: Due to the rapid growth of medical technologies and the increasing population of older people, we investigated clinical status of ocular dimensions and visual acuity for pre and post cataract surgeries of people over age 90. Methods: From March 2007 to February 2009, we investigated eighty-two eyes of forty-eight patients who had undergone cataract surgeries at an ophthalmic clinic (Ansung, Kyungi-do), investigated maximum corrected vision, axial length, anterior chamber depth and accompanied ocular diseases before and after the surgeries based on the collected data. Results: As patients aged, axial length unchanged but anterior chamber depth decreased over all due to the increase of intraocular lens thickness, and men tended to have a higher degree than women. Seventy-one (86.6%) of eighty-two eyes showed improved corrected vision than before surgeries and forty-three (52.4%) eyes could see more than visual acuity of 0.5. Conclusions: Patients with the systemic disease and accompanied ocular disease showed low vision less than 0.5 after cataract surgery compared to same healthy age peoples. But the others improved correction visual acuity more than 0.5, so the cataract surgery was surely necessary for people over 90 years old and also the presence of ocular disease could have a great influence on correction visual acuity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.560-567
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• 2019

South Korea, which has entered an aged society, is about to enter a super-aged society in 2025. With the increase of an aging population, traffic accidents by aged drivers have been settled as a social problem. Now, when Korea is facing a super-aged society to come, a study was conducted to prevent traffic accidents that occur while the elderly people are driving through a disaster prevention design. For theoretical research, this study examined the concept and necessity of disaster prevention design, the present condition of an aged society, aged drivers' physical and cognitive characteristics, and the policies related to the forms of traffic lights the elderly people see. In addition, to propose the design, this study investigated and analyzed the traffic safety forms and colors of the International Standards Organization and proposed the first and second forms of the design of traffic lights for the gradual improvement of the traffic lights based on that. The first improved design form is a plan for displaying a triangle, an arrow with a large area, and a quadrangle in the lens of the head of the existing traffic lights, and the second improved design form is a plan for introducing a new traffic light head and forming the traffic light with a bigger triangle, an arrow with a large area and a quadrangular lens. Since it has a visually clearer form than the present traffic lights, it is expected that aged drivers who have physical and cognitive characteristics due to aging can secure better visibility and conspicuity and that they can make better reflex responses than they can now, also in the change of driving environment (rain and heavy snowstorm, etc.). In addition, it is expected that this study would be a preceding study to prepare standard guidelines on traffic safety signs other than traffic lights to be prepared for the super-aged society.

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.32-32
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• 2004

최근 초고령 노인 인구의 증가와 함께 이들에 대한 의학적 관심도 매우 커지고 있다. 본 연구는 우리나라 최초로 백세인을 대상으로 신체 기능과 인지 기능을 포함한 임상적 특성을 조사하였다. 연구에 포함된 백세인은 총 103명으로 남자가 13명, 여자가 90명이었다. 이들의 평균 나이는 102.4세이며 나이의 범위는 100~115세 이었다. 대상자 중58명은 서울 및 경기 지역에 거주하였고, 나머지는 경상도, 전라도, 제주도 등 지방 거주자였다. (중략)

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.46 no.9
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• pp.116-119
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• 2014

최근 농협경제연구소에서 실시한 조사에 따르면 2013년 기준 축산농가 경영주의 고령화율은 44.3%로 3년새 4.6% 증가하였다. 고령화 정도는 65세 이상 인구가 총인구에서 차지하는 비율이 7% 이상일 때 고령화 사회라고 부르며 20% 이상이면 초고령 사회로 분류한다. 축종별 고령화 정도를 보면 산란계 농가의 고령화율이 49.2%(2013년 기준)로 가장 높게 나타났다. 또한, 후계자가 확보된 축산농가는 50.6%에 불과한 것으로 나타났다. 가업을 승계하는 젊은 양계인들이 없다면 국내 양계업의 미래도 없다고 봐야할 것이다. 낙원농장 김동규 사장은 청소년 시절부터 가업승계를 꿈꿔 왔고 양계산업의 큰 애착을 보이고 있다. 산란계농가 2세로 산업발전에 힘쓰고 있는 김 사장을 만나 농장운영 상황에 대해 들어보았다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.149-154
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• 2010

건축기술의 눈부신 발전과 경제적 가치추구 등에 따른 국가 사회적 수요로 인하여 초고층 건축물의 건설물량은 이들 건축물에 대한 효과적인 피난안전대책을 정립하기도 전에 급속히 증가하는 추세이다. 우리나라는 2009년 7월 16일 재정된 건축법 시행령을 통하여 층수가 50층 이상이거나 높이가 200미터 이상인 건축물을 '초고층 건축물'로 규정하고, 이러한 건축물의 피난안전을 위하여 지상층으로부터 최대 30개 층마다 설치하는 대피공간을 '피난안전구역'으로 정의하였다. 이후 2010년 2월 18일 개정령에서는 초고층 건축물의 피난안전구역을 건축물의 '피난층'으로 인정하기에 이르렀다. 그러나 피난대상인원 등에 따른 대피공간의 면적이나 구조 등 내부시설에 대한 설치기준이 없어 피난안전구역으로서의 충분한 신뢰성을 확보하지 못하고 있어 이에 대한 심층적 연구와 기준의 개선이 필요한 실정이다.

• The Monthly Diabetes
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• s.223
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• pp.46-49
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• 2008

우리나라는 65세 이상 노인인구가 전체인구의 9.5%로 이미 '고령화사회'로 진입하였다. 현재 그 속도가 더욱 빨라져 이제는 '초고령사회'로 나아가고 있는 실정에서 노인들을 위한 전문 의료시설이 절실하다. 이에 발 맞춰 노인성 질환을 중심으로 진료하고 어르신들을 위한 특성화된 치료를 제공하고 있는 노인전문병원이 있어 찾아가 봤다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.280-290
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to understand the relation among health condition of physicalness, psychology and society, family support, and self-integration in age group of old people and to analysis if there are any mediated effect of family support in relationship between health condition and self-integration. For that, the survey was conducted people aged 65 or older living in B city. First, the levels of heath condition of physicalness, psychology and society, and self-integration in 'old people aged between 65 and 74' were high, the level was getting lower in the oldest aged. Second, for the aged groups between 65 and 74, and aged group between 75 and 84, health condition of society and psychology influenced meaningfully with a factor of self-integration, and for the people aged 85 or older, health condition of society and psychology influenced meaningfully. Third, all aged groups had the mediated effect of family support through self-integration in heath condition. Therefore, health promotion for the elderly age group according to a variety of family support intervention and self-integrated sense of improvement in the system by age category providing differentiated services and social assistance strategy is necessary.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.610-621
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• 2017

Medical cost for elderly is increasing with ageing society and putting more and more burden on both individuals and government. To find a solution to reduce medical cost among elderly and to propose implication/suggestion to central government and a local government, different degree of medical cost burden by type of household and factors that affect increased medical cost are investigated based on elderly in Suwon city in this article. According to the research result, 59.3% of respondents felt medical cost burdensome. Also, according to the multiple regression performed to understand factors that increases medical cost by type of household, subjectively felt health status was found to be a statistically significant factor commonly in three groups which are living household with adult child, living household with spouse only, living household alone. And the degree of medical cost was higher in living household with spouse only, more higher in living household alone. And socioeconomic status and health status, health status, and health status and private insurance, medical security system were found to be significantly related to medical cost burden to household type of the elderly.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.75-96
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to prepare and present a plan for the elderly service, in which the elderly become service providers and beneficiaries for the elderly who have emerged as the main library users in the face of a post-aged society. As a result of a survey of 119 elderly users of public libraries in the Busan area and an interview with a focus group of librarians at G Library, it was confirmed that the elderly service was needed. The most necessary services in terms of the beneficiaries of the Elderly Services by Elderly were surveyed in the order of computer information search help service, library usage guide service, book search method guide service, and recommended or popular book guide service. In terms of 'Elderly Services by Elderly' providers, the willingness to participate was the highest among those in their 60s, and the preferred method of participation was paid volunteer work three times a week, within four hours a day. Accordingly, it was analyzed that participants were recruited in connection with the social contribution activities of the government employment program for the elderly and prior training was necessary. In addition, the need for the creation of a community space for the elderly and the participation of retired librarians was raised.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.123-129
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• 2023

This study was intended to discuss the economic exclusion of the elderly, which may be experienced in a super-aged society, and to propose a method to improve the interpersonal satisfaction of the elderly through the expansion of social networks in order to overcome this. As a result of this study, first, it suggests that the method of overcoming economic exclusion and improving human satisfaction requires a high interest in women in the subject, and the elderly, low-educated, It was found that it is urgent to overcome the economic exclusion of the low-income class. Second, as a result of examining the effect of social network on human relationship satisfaction, it was found that the more women, the higher the age, the more shopping, and the smoother communication with children, the higher the human relationship satisfaction. Third, as a result of examining the effect of economic exclusion on human relationship satisfaction, it was found that the more leisure activities visited relatives and relatives, and the more paid facilities used social networks, the lower the relationship satisfaction. Therefore, it can be seen that improvement measures for leisure activities and social networks are required. Fourth, as a result of examining the mediating effect of the social network, the social exclusion in the causal relationship in which the independent variable economic exclusion affects the dependent variable, human relationship satisfaction, The relational network was found to have a complete mediating effect. In conclusion, economic exclusion and social network affect human relationship satisfaction, and it was found that human relationship satisfaction improved only when economic exclusion was overcome and social network was improved.