• Architectural research
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2008

Designing environments for the elderly includes studying changes in the elderly themselves, changes in their environment, and changes in the intercommunication between the elderly and their environment. The purpose of this study is to provide guidelines for a ubiquitous environment in which seniors can "age in place," using an environment-behavioral approach. 305 subjects aged 45 to 78 take part in the survey research. Temporal sequence (age groups) and behavior (daily activities) are considered as the significant variables to design digital services for the elderly in the perspective of an environment-behavioral approach. Several conclusions can be made. (1) The characteristics of subjects in the over-65 age group shows that they manage an independent lifestyle even if they realize some body functions deteriorate as they age. (2) Over-65 age group is more engaged in healthcare and pastime activities. The male subjects of it are most inactive. (3) The IDA (importance of daily activities) and FDA (frequency of daily activities) are classified by five to six factors in each group. The IDA and FDA of the group aged over 65 differ from other age groups. (4) Five affordance dimensions of digital services for the elderly are proposed: Healthcare, Domesticity, Mobility & Security, Network, and Recreation & Pastime. These affordance dimensions will help research groups or companies design ubiquitous environments to enhance the quality of life of seniors.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.389-399
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• 2021

본 연구는 국내·외 가정환경수정 관련 정책들을 살펴봄으로써 'Aging In Place; AIP' 실현을 위한 국내 가정환경수정 관련 제도의 방향성과 가정환경수정 전문가로서 작업치료사에게 요구되는 역량에 대해 살펴보고자 하였다. 국내 가정환경수정 분야의 확장과 작업치료사 역량 강화를 위해 가정환경수정의 설계와 중재 실현이 반영된 명확하고 실질적인 가정환경수정 프로세스 확립이 요구되며, 거주인의 구체적인 필요와 요구를 파악하는 평가와 국내 주택 유형의 특성을 반영한 가정환경 평가도구의 적절한 선택 및 표준화 과정이 필요하다. 또한 정책과 제도에 대한 이해 및 타 분야 전문가와의 소통·협력을 위한 관련 지식 기반 구축을 위해 노력해야 할 것이다. 제도적 측면에서는 기존의 저소득층, 장애인 중심으로 시행되었던 주택개조 지원제도에서 저소득 고령자를 포함하여 소득 수준에 관계없이 고령자가 자신의 노화에 적응해 갈 수 있는 주택개조 지원제도가 필요하다. 더불어 국외 사례에서와 같이 베리어프리(Barrier Free) 주택개조 지원제도와 정부와 지자체의 협력을 통한 지원범위 확대, 저리 융자와 조세 감면, 환경수정 서비스 관련 단체 및 기관들의 거버넌스 구축 등 다양하고 효율적인 방안 마련을 위해 노력할 필요가 있다.

• 한국농촌건축학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2013

In the midst of growing demand for rural life of urban dwellers, this study tried to investigate the difference in behavior and recognition about urban rural exchange between Korea and Japan. For this, this study utilized 2,000 total samples of the survey conducted by MLIT in Japan, because Japan has experienced a low birth rate and aging population earlier and actively promoting urban rural exchange program than South Korea. The result of the analysis is as follows. First, the needs for rural life of urban dwellers are similar both in Japan and South Korea. However, Japanese prioritize future efforts to current efforts. Second, urban dwellers' activities in rural areas were classified into three categories; field trips and hands-on activities, cruise and circulating activities, and leisure activities. Third, similarly three types of visit or intercourse of urban dwellers into rural areas were classified; repeatedly visit the same place as 'iterative type', visit a new place as 'new pioneer type', and not yet determined as 'undefined type'. Variables such as age of household, income, number of inmate, and number of children were analyzed linked to these three types of visit or intercourse in a Discriminant analysis. As a result, only 'age of household', however, turned out to be the crucial factor which influence decisively distinguishing characteristics of these three types of visit into rural areas.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2023

Purpose: This study is to analyze the preferences for future senior housing that reflects the characteristics of the new generation of seniors and to consider the direction of future senior housing. Methods: Data from an online survey of a new generation of older adults and group interviews with professionals and baby boomers were analyzed. The data collected from the survey and interview have been using quantitative analysed method. Literature surveys also have been carried out. Results: The results show that future senior housing requires a change in perception through conceptual expansion from the Aging in Place (AIP) to the Aging in Community (AIC) paradigm. The preferences of the new generation of seniors for future senior housing were examined to determine their preferences for location, facility size and type, unit floor plans and services, and living costs. Implications: The direction of senior housing services and architectual plans for seniors aged 55 to 65 years old were discussed.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.659-668
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• 2016

Purpose: This study utilized secondary data and investigated the factors associated with life satisfaction by living arrangements among community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older in Korea. Methods: A total of 2,134 participants were selected from the 2014 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA). Univariable and multivariable logistic regression were used for data analysis. Results: The significant factors associated with life satisfaction in older adults living with others were education level (odds ratio [OR] 1.73, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.41~2.11), place of residence in medium-size city (OR 1.57, 95% CI 1.25~1.97), place of residence in rural town(OR 1.52, 95% CI 1.19~1.95), depression (OR 2.99, 95% CI 2.43~3.68), frequency of contact with neighbors (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.10~1.76), and social participation (OR 1.48, 95% CI 1.14~1.93). In contrast, factors associated with life satisfaction among older adults living alone were education level (OR 1.93, 95% CI 1.15~3.24) and depression (OR 2.49, 95% CI 1.48~4.19). Conclusion: These findings indicated that nursing interventions for improving life satisfaction among older adults should take into account their specific living arrangements.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2016

For the elderly with declining sensory due to aging, various sense stimulation factors provided in indoor environment is desirable healing environment. This study aims to propose the direction of sensory healing environment by adapting the richness of natural environment in indoor place based on the biophilic design theory with implementation method of sensory richness environment. The healing environment was limited to the ward in the beginning, but it has widened its range to the whole place, and the lobby is considered quiet important to healing. Therefore, this study selected lobby space of geriatric hospital as study subject. As for the study method, we deducted the analytic matrix focusing on the property and elements of the direct and indirect experience of nature appearing in the biophilic design theory, and analyzed the field investigation of subject space. Also, this study paid attention to point where the hotel lobby leads the change of emotional environment, and conducted analysis and comparison by deciding this is what the hotel and geriatric hospital should direct to. As the result, the biophilic design factor of hotel is actively expressed by complex direction of various factors, but as for the geriatric hospital, it was rather passive and simple in expression. The adaptation ratio between hotel and geriatric hospital was almost more than twice times difference in average.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2019

최근 네트워크 환경이 확장되면서 스마트 기기 보급이 지속해서 증가하고 있다. 스마트 폰, 스마트 패드, 웨어러블 등 스마트 디바이스의 보급을 통해 스마트기술과 IT융합 기술에 많은 변화를 주고 있다. 스마트기술의 발전은 4차산업 기술의 핵심적인 요소이다. 4차산업 혁명은 IT융합과 스마트 디바이스를 이용하여 주거, 산업, 생산 환경에 지능적 요소를 추가하여 새로운 서비스 기반 산업을 확장 시켰다. 스마트 홈, 스마트 팩토리, 스마트 팜, 스마트 헬스케어 등 스마트기술을 이용한 다양한 서비스 제공에 관한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 특히 스마트 홈은 사물인터넷 기기의 보급 확산과 센서 기술, 컨트롤 기술, 애플리케이션, 데이터 관리, 클라우드 서비스 성장에 따라 급성장하고 있다. 스마트기술을 이용한 스마트 홈 서비스는 거주자에게 편리하고, 유익한 서비스 및 환경 제공이 가능하다. 스마트 홈 서비스는 기존 홈 네트워크 서비스 문제점을 보완했지만 여전히 미비한 점이 많이 있다. 즉 스마트 디바이스 보급과 공급자 위주의 서비스 개발 및 서비스 연동은 사용자 환경과 사용자 상태를 고려한 서비스 제공에 한계를 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 보완하기 위해 본 연구에선 고령자 상황을 고려한 스마트 홈 서비스 시스템을 제안한다. 제안방법은 기존 스마트 홈 서비스 제공 방법에 고령자 상황과 상태 정보를 반영하여 서비스를 지원한다. 또한, 서비스 지원 확장을 통해 지역 서비스 및 외부 서비스를 적절하게 지원하여 사용자에게 적합한 서비스 제공을 목적으로 하고 있다.

• 한국주거학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국주거학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.65-68
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• 2011

The average increase in life expectancy obtained as a gift of modern science cannot hold itself responsible for extended life's happiness. It admits of no argument that the necessity of social preparation for minimizing bad health and longevity of unhappiness to aged people who are in the state of these continuous growth. Recently, because of an aging trend, targeting on elderly housing expected continuous increased demand in housing market, this study is to comprehend it's characteristic and offer implications. For the characteristic of elderly housing, firstly it needs scientific analysis of related theory and analysis of statistical data. Also this study aims to look through and suggest an alternative included the special matters of Korean society with advanced foreign country's analysis of an alternative. And judging from economic characteristics of elderly housing to be presented as an important factor, choices of housing according to economic level are anticipated to show different forms. In future, to supply elderly housing, therefore, the introduction of the concept of housing providing various opportunity of choice is necessary. If studies proceed through expanded alternative, it is judged to be able to draw more varied results in elderly housing. Also, if going along with political dimension study, it is expected to offer more specific and effective solutions of the problem of elderly housing.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2010

As an aging population has increased vastly and nuclear families have been a dominating family type in modern Korean society, the numbers of the elderly who suffer Empty Nest Syndrome and LID (Loss Isolation Depression) syndrome have been accelerated. These syndromes involve psychological instability, melancholy, and lethargy. To make the elderly get out of this phenomenon and live actively, the scheme of converting their existing house into shared housing was set as a hypothetical solution in this study. This study sets out to find out responses of the elderly to alter their own house's function in housing improvement area. A Small Workshop Panel method was used and the elderly aged 55 years upwards took part and they own a detached house in a housing improvement area that is relatively large for the elderly or the elderly couple to live alone. Through the workshop, problems that the elderly have been experiencing within their houses were looked into and responses of the elderly on altering their house to shared housing by introducing developed schematic plans. Although, the first response was negative, positive responses from the house owners were carried out when a visual support i.e. developed shared housing plan was provided. The positive response was based on the fact that subsidies from the government on house renovation and tenants matching programs are supported as shared housing could provide home owners economical support with rents and help them to feel less lonely. This is a way of relieving the elderly from being neglected and supporting them to live and age actively in their later lives. Furthermore, by providing a visual media to the elder residents in housing improvement area, their greater understandings on the development and addressing their opinions were possible. Therefore, more tools that promote elder residents' participation are needed for future housing improvement projects and an aging society.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2009

Globally, the issue of aging populations has become a significant one, and while Korea is not yet in the same position as many other countries, it has been changing rapidly into an aged society. Korea will be an aged society and this will increase the problems which are associated with an aged society. So we are in the urgent situation of looking the solutions for aged society problems. On this theme, a society which is rapidly aging has a growing interest with developing solutions for suitable elderly housing. A possible model of elderly housing which accomplished this is shared housing. Shared housing is more integrated in local society, and is designed like a small-scale house concept. Also as it provides benefits for social, economical and practical to the continuance of independent life, the shared housing which gives the possibility of sustainable life in the local society is a unique housing type and not only an extension of a housing community, but also it an alternative plan of social integration. This study is one of the methods for the proposal of an alternative plan for the sustainable housing using a small group workshop. It aims to understand the housing preferences of seniors and introduce various shared housing types to a low-income senior group and offer new information of the shared housing for the future. So I give the source that senior could think about their housing plan and what is housing preference type. I anticipate that the better elderly environments, facilities and service to the elderly shared housing development in the future.