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A Study of Sitting Areas Preferred to Use by Assisted Living Residents in the U.S. (미국 노인 생활지원시설 거주자의 공용공간 이용선호 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Min-Ah
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.493-509
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    • 2013
  • This study investigated the sitting areas preferred to use by assisted living residents in the U.S., compared the perceptions of staff and residents, and analyzed the effects of residents' and spatial characteristics on the preference for use of main sitting areas such as lounge, dining area, activity room and outdoor area. A total of 102 participants(66 residents and 36 staff) from eight facilities in the seven counties of southern Texas were asked about two sitting areas residents like to spend time at. The results of the study were as follows: The most frequently mentioned sitting areas were the activity and outdoor area as per the residents, but the dining area and lounge as per the staff. It might be due to that the view of staff might have been limited to sitting areas usually used by the severely frail residents. Residents using higher level of mobility assistance such as wheelchairs and walkers, or living in the facility having more dispersed sitting areas were less likely to prefer to use the lounge. The residents who were younger or having good centralized outdoor area were more likely to prefer to use the outdoor area. The preference for use of dining area was affected by its proximity from the residents' individual rooms. Diverse survey methods need to be developed for a more in-depth collection and analysis of data from functionally frail older residents and staff caring for them.

A Study on Interior Design of Living Unit Space in Assisted Living Facilities (거주지원 노인 주거의 공간구성과 실내디자인에 관한 연구)

  • 김화경;김형우
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 1999.04a
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    • pp.16-22
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    • 1999
  • The present asylums are reported to be hurting the privacy and self-reliance of the individuals by the uniformed manugerial regulations and fragmentary service. Due to the poor linkage of service and uneven quality between facilities, when a person falls into a serious disease he should bear the inconvenience of moving to other facility for the treatment. This study is to investigate the types and pater of welfare facilities for the aged where they can be provided with flexible service in the continuous living environments and to suggest the ideal environments for them to stand on their own feet by assisting properly both in physically and mentally keeping their privacy and sociality.

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An analysis of domestic research trends on elderly environment planing (국내 노인주거환경계획 분야 연구의 흐름 분석 연구)

  • Lee, Yeun Sook;Lee, So Young;Kim, Mi Sun;Lee, Jung Hwa;Kwak, Yoon Jung
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2007
  • Korean society expects to be changing into aged society more rapidly than any other countries due to low birthrate and increase in life expectancy. Increasing number of elderly and social problems of aging society have provoked increase in research on elderly environment. Elderly housing facilities and living conditions are significantly related to the quality of life for older persons. The purpose of this study is to systematically analyze empirical studies on elderly physical environments in Korea, find out research streaming and understand social backgrounds and to suggest future research problems. For this study, contents analysis was conducted. Articles of four academic peer reviewed journals published from 1986 to 2005 were units of analysis. Using a keyword through library database systems, the articles were systematically selected. As results, trends of research according to 4 periods were defined. Among them as major trends, expansion of the quantity, expansion to interior design features for older persons, more facility types for dependent elderly(assisted living facilities, facilities for elderly with dementia, long term care facilities) have appeared. This result showed some directions and implications on elderly facility planning and development.

A Study on the Present Condition of Elderly Housing Facilities in USA - Focused on Contra Costa County, California - (미국 노인주거시설의 현황분석 -캘리포니아주 콘트라 코스타 카운티를 중심으로-)

  • Ju, Seo-Ryeung;Song, Bin-Na
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.157-158
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    • 2004
  • In this study, we try to understand the present condition of elderly housing facilities in Contra Costa County, California, USA. We got the basic information of 92 facilities through the interview with the chief of elderly housing department in Contra Costa County, California. In practical way of research, this study bears various components of the elderly housing facilities, which are type of facility, financial aids, type of apartment, and provided living services. The short summerising of researches are; The present conditions of elderly housing facilities can be classified as Independent Living(53), Congregate Housing(23), Assisted Living(33), Dementia Care(12). The financial aid conditions are shown like SSI, HA, HUD. The types of apartment are studio type, 1 bedroom type, 2 bedroom type. These facilities provides meals, housekeeping, transportation, small pets. As a result of studying the present condition of elderly housing facilities in Contra Costa County, we propose the basic statistical report on the most general type of housing, financial aids, type of services that people of the states want to get.

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Suggestion on Senior Housing Policy with Consideration of the Features of Service and Housing Alternatives for the Senior of the U.S.A. (미국의 노인을 위한 주거대안과 서비스의 특성을 통해 본 한국의 노인주거 정책에 대한 제안)

  • 곽인숙
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.81-95
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    • 2003
  • While Korean traditional culture considers it necessary that children support their parents, a new trend of silver support is expanding by the recent social change, the increase of women's working, and the reluctance to support the old people. However, the number of silver welfare facilities in Korea is short for the demand with limited selections of them. Based on the situation, the following results of the study what kind of policies Korea service for the old people in the USA where early stepped into the aging society: 1. provide specific and proper social-supporting service and facilities with charge or free for the old people to be able to select one of them, according to economic, physical and psychological situation of the old people; rather to prepare service and facilities for all the old people. 2. increasing community service support for the home-staying old people 3. the development of support program for the family of the old 4. the improvement of housing environment for the home-staying senior 5. prepare the housing alternatives for the senior would be home-like environment.

Organizational Effectiveness of Social Welfare Organizations: What Can We Learn From Past Research? A Review (사회복지조직의 조직효과성 연구경향 분석)

  • Park, Ji-Hea;Park, Eun-Joo;Cho, Sang-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.61 no.1
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    • pp.33-55
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    • 2009
  • This article reviews 20 empirical studies that have focused on the organizational effectiveness of social welfare organizations since 1980. The purposes of this study were to understand the organizational phenomena of social welfare organizations, to offer practical implications for organizational management and to propose direction for the further researches. Special attention has been paid to identify 1) subjects of research 2) approach and criteria of organizational effectivess and 3) critical factors that impact on organizational effectiveness. The results showed that 1) most of researches utilized samples from social welfare community centers and assisted-living facility, 2) many researches focused on internal process approach and used diverse criteria of organizational effectiveness 3) collective developmental culture, decentralized structure, transformational leadership, open relationship between organization and external environment were critical factors of organizational effectiveness. The review suggests that social welfare managers should practice diverse approach based on vision, purpose and developmental stage of each organization. The managers also should implement more conscious efforts to make supportive and fair work environment where all employees feel valued and can demonstrate their maximum potential and to respond to task environments more proactively. Further research should be conducted from diverse organizations using various research methods. More comprehensive empirical model and multidimensional measure of organizational effectiveness need to be developed.

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The Analysis of Research Trends in Social Service Quality Using Text Mining and Topic Modeling (텍스트 마이닝과 토픽모델링 활용한 사회서비스 품질의 학술연구 동향 분석)

  • Lee, Hae-Jung;Youn, Ki-Hyok
    • Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2022
  • The aim of this study was to analyze research trends of social service quality from 2007 to 2020 based on text mining and topic modeling. Our focus was to provide foundational materials for social service improvement by discovering the latent meaning of relevant research papers. We collected 97 scholarly articles on social service, social welfare service, and quality from RISS, and implemented two segments of text mining analysis. Our results showed that the first section included 38 papers and the second 59, indicating 6.9 articles annually. Word frequency results demonstrated that the common keywords of both sections were 'service', 'quality', 'social service', 'satisfaction', 'users', 'quality control', 'reuse', 'policy', 'voucher', etc. TF-IDF suggested that 'social service', 'satisfaction', 'users', 'customer satisfaction', 'revisiting', 'voucher', 'quality', 'assisted living facility', 'quality control', 'community service investment business', etc., were represented in both categories. Lastly, topic modeling analysis revealed that the first segment displayed 'types of care services', 'service costs', 'reuse', 'users based', and 'job creation', whereas the second presented 'service quality', 'public value', 'management system of human resources', 'service provision system', and 'service satisfaction'. Future directions of social service quality were discussed based on the results.