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Study on the blind zone of social service in Korea (한국 사회서비스의 사각지대 실태)

  • Noh, Hyejin
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.179-204
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to establish the concept of the blind zone of social services and analyzing the conditions by children, the elderly, the disabled, and the poor. This study used the raw data of demand/supply of social service and sample size is 4,038. Results of the study were as follows. First, in terms of the coverage, the biggest blind zones of social service are the employment support and cultural service. These results were similar for all households. But, it is noteworthy that the size and proportion of blind zones of housing support services for children, counseling services for elderly are relatively big. Second, in terms of adequacy, the most serious blind zones of social service are health and the employment support service. Especially, the elderly, the disabled, and the poor are not the most adequate adult care services and children are community service. Based on such findings, this study suggests expansion of employment support services and health care, monitoring for the services analyzed to be over-supply, and intensive involvement of private sectors about the services provided by the government of a large blind zone.

A Study on Revitalization and Development of Digital Talking Book Based on the DAISY Format (DAISY 포맷 기반의 디지털음성도서 개발 및 서비스 방안 연구)

  • Jang, Bo-Seong;Kim, Gyu-Hwan;Yi, Hyun-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.295-315
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    • 2009
  • This study suggested a scheme of revitalization and development of digital talking books(DTB) for the print disable people. In Korea, the number of print disabled people is quickly increasing because of increasing of the acquired blind and the elderly in population. To promote information service and to encourage active participation from the group categorized as print disabled people, library is required two distinctive considerations, design and implementation of authoring tool for DTB and policy and administrative consideration for revitalization for DTB service to the print disable people.

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Development of Evaluation Tool and Guidelines of Space Design for Applying the Concept of Universal Design (공간디자인을 위한 유니버설 디자인 평가도구 및 지침개발)

  • Oh, Chan-Ohk
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 2015
  • As the population of the aged and the disabled increases, the needs for universal design is also growing. Universal design is to design for diverse users including all ages from children to the elderly, the disabled and non-disabled, the pregnant, the tourist, and etc. This study is intended to develop the design evaluation tool and guidelines of universal design for applying to space design. In order to achieve this, four basic spaces in human living such as residential space, educational space, working space, and cultural space were selected. Then, the elements of universal design were chosen for each space. The numbers of areas in each space were 12 for residential spae, 5 for educational space, 6 for working space, and 6 for cultural space. Also, 60 elements of universal design for residential space, 53 for educational space, 36 for working space, and 46 for cultural space were selected. The field observation with photos and user evaluation survey were carried out for each space by using these elements. Finally, the elements and guidelines of universal design applied for spatial design were suggested. This consisted of 8 areas and 67 elements. This would be useful for designing space for all people.

Home Care Service for the Handicapped (재가장애인 방문치료에 대한 연구고찰)

  • Lee Hea-Young;Park Rae-Joon
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.179-185
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    • 1999
  • The Purpose of this study was to review the necessity of home care service for the handicapped. The Present momentum for home care for the handicapped become when the circulating rehabilitation service center for the handicapped was designated by the government in Korea. That was 1992. Home care service is a burgeoning segment of Korea health Service, driven by factors which include an expanding elderly population and increasing the disabled persons. To ensure quality of life for the disabled persons with diminishing financial resources allocated to health me, it is essential that community based rehabilitation and home care service be extended.

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Augmented Reality Pre-inspection for Barrier-Free Authentication (증강현실 기술을 활용한 BF 인증 사전 검사 방법)

  • Shin, hyung-woo;Shin, yoon-seok;Yu, Wi-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2022.11a
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    • pp.233-234
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    • 2022
  • In Korea, various policies are implemented so that the socially disadvantaged (disabled, elderly, pregnant women, temporary disabled, etc.) can easily access individual facilities and areas. As the nation's interest in the socially disadvantaged increases, the need for BF certification is also emerging in buildings in private facilities. However, this system requires a lot of cost and time in the examination process, so if certification fails, social costs and time losses are high. To solve this problem, this paper presents a measurement plan for mixed reality devices using HoloLens, a mixed reality device hardware that can pre-check BF certification based on augmented reality, and Unity 3D, MRTK, a development tool.

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A Study on the Planning and Management of Community Space for the Elderly in Local Community - Mainly on the Elderly Complex Space in Japan (지역 공동체에서의 고령자 커뮤니티 공간 계획과 운영에 관한 연구 - 일본 고령자 복합공간을 중심으로)

  • Park, Haesun;Eun, Nansoon
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.49-61
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: With particular focus on the analysis of elderly community space in local communities, this study aims to propose policies and points to consider in the planning and management of community space that can encourage the elderly to actively participate in community activities. Methods: The study explores five different Japanese community spaces that have been utilized as platforms for intergenerational interactions; the research was carried out by literature review, field work and interviews. Results: The results are as follows. First, the planning of the community space for the elderly must be combined with the space that the locals often use. Community space should not be seen as a place for a specific generation, but for everyone to interact with each other at any time; hence it must be fostered to be accessible for anyone regardless of age. Second, community space for the elderly requires to be planned as an accessible place for everyone such as cafes and restaurants. The adjacent areas require social infrastructure like libraries and public baths which are frequently used by people from various age groups. Third, in order to spark off the intergenerational community space as the stronghold of local communities, it needs to be a place where the elderly is given sufficient role and meaning as a member of the community. To achieve this, it is essential to support the locals to take active measures in creating job opportunities for the elderly and the disabled, and to develop voluntary self-sufficiency and volunteering programs.

A Study on Effective Fire Countermeasures for Facilities for the Elderly and Children (노유자시설의 효율적인 화재 대응방안에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Euy-Hong;Choi, Han-Bit;Choi, Doon-Mook
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.107-114
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    • 2020
  • With the development of the national industry, the importance of the elderly and children such as the elderly, disabled, and children is recognized. Similarly, the number of facilities for the elderly and children is increasing. Fires at facilities for the elderly and children cause heavy casualties. In response to these events, it is essential to activate fire alarms promptly and accurately and to secure evacuation routes. In this study, the laws and statistics related to facilities for elderly and children were reviewed, and problems with legal terms-such as elderly, children, others, unwanted alarm of fire alarm systems, blind spots of fire compartment standards, securing evacuation routes, and absence of standards for life safety rescue organizations-were identified. As an improvement measure, the legal definitions of similar terms-such as elderly, children, unwanted alarm checklist, and establishment of standards for fire prevention compartment-and introduction of other terms-evacuation elevators, the establishment of standards for life-safety rescue organizations, and provision of flame retardation objects for evacuees-were proposed.

Risk factors for functional disability among community dwelling elderly (지역사회 재가 노인의 기능장애 위험요인)

  • Song, Hyun-jong
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate risk factors for chronic ADL, IADL disability. The study explored clinical and socio-demographic risk factors of functional status decline. Methods: Data from the Survey of Living Condition of Elderly 3-year panel study were analyzed. The study subjects were 5,928 community-dwelling people aged 65 years or older who were no disability in ADL and IADL at baseline. Predisposing factors, pathology, impairment, and functional limitations were regarded as risk factors. Logistic regression analysis was used. Results: During the 3-year study period, 3.9% participants developed chronic ADL disability, 9.4% participants were IADL disabled. After controlling for predisposing factor, the best predictors for ADL disability at 36 months were fall as a pathology factor, cognitive decline, disability judgement, lower limb functional limitation. Comorbidity, fall, cognitive decline, disability judgement, lower limb and upper limb functional limitation were risk factors for IADL disability. Conclusions: Health promotion program focusing elderly is essential to prevent ADL and IADL disability. Mobilizing physical activity should be included in health promotion program for elderly.

Restful Web Services Composition Using Semantic Ontology for Elderly Living Assistance Services

  • Fattah, Sheik Mohammad Mostakim;Chong, Ilyoung
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.1010-1032
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    • 2018
  • Recent advances in medical science have made people live longer, which has affected many aspects of life, such as caregiver burden, increasing cost of healthcare, increasing number of disabled and depressive disorder persons, and so on. Researchers are now focused on elderly living assistance services in smart home environments. In recent years, assisted living technologies have rapidly grown due to a faster growing aging society. Many smart devices are now interconnected within the home network environment and such a home setup supports collaborations between those devices based on the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the major challenges in providing elderly living assistance services is to consider each individual's requirements of different needs. In order to solve this, the virtualization of physical things, as well as the collaboration and composition of services provided by these physical things should be considered. In order to meet these challenges, Web of Objects (WoO) focuses on the implementation aspects of IoT to bring the assorted real world objects with the web applications. We proposed a semantic modelling technique for manual and semi-automated service composition. The aim of this work is to propose a framework to enable RESTful web services composition using semantic ontology for elderly living assistance services creation in WoO based smart home environment.

A Study on Exercise Intervention for Improving Physical Activity for the Disabled: From the Perspective of Convergence Device (장애인 신체활동 증가를 위한 운동중재에 관한 연구: 융합형 디바이스 활용 관점에서)

  • Kang, Sunyoung
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the trend of exercise intervention applying various devices to increase the physical activity of the disabled, and to suggest the exercise intervention using converged devices that meet the needs of the times due to the increase of elderly people with disabilities. Exercise intervention using converged devices applicable to the disabled is divided into two types: first, exercise intervention using virtual reality-based gamification, and second, exercise intervention based on wearable devices of wearable or body-attached such as bands and watches. For exercise intervention using converged devices that can be enjoyed by the elderly with disability, minimize of environmental limitations, and easy to personalize, there is a need for configuration requirements such as easy operation and simple rules of operation, easy device installation and wearing, a trainer who can complement immature device utilization. In order to maintain and improve the daily living performance of the elderly with disabilities who experience a significant decrease in their cognitive and physical functions, it is necessary to use a physical activity game that can be experienced and can be interested in everyday life or a variety of devices to increase the amount of physical activity.