• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.661-666
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• 2012

This article reveals the relationship between the body characteristics of the elder people and the size of park facilities during utilization of parks by scientific investigation. The experiment involves 540 elder people, and offer concrete evidence for park design in ageing society. These evidences mainly consists of the following aspects: First, the relation between physical situation of elder people and their using parks. Secondly, the relation between the hearing status and exchange circle diameter in elders. The last is the relation between the distance visual acuity and designing the scene. Finally we get the most suitable step length range, stairs height, road slope, communication space diameter and general formulas about the best vision distance for elder people.

• 한국디지털건축인테리어학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2013

Recently, the korean statistical information service reported that the elder people aged over 65 years take 11 percentage point of all population, indicating that the hyper-elder era will advent shortly. As a result, there are remarkably increasing demands for providing self-organizable home agent system for elder people. Of the home agent system, the ubiquitous home service is known to be useful to overcome this problem. However, current ubiquitous home services limited to provide functional services, and it can be observed that there is lack of consideration for elder-support products which are closely interacted with elder people in the living situation. In this paper, we analyze senior aids products that can be combined to the ubiquitous home service, and propose design procedure for senior aids products that can be applied to self-organizable ubiquitous services. We studied characteristics of elder people, current state of affairs for senior aids products, and home services that are highly required by elder people. Moreover, we observed that the ubiquitous home services related to health, safety, and amenity are urgently needed, and those services can be categorized according to residential areas. Following those observances, we proposed a design principle based on the universal design paradigm to provide self-organizable ubiquitous home service environment for elder people using senior aids products.

• 대한한의진단학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

Objectives: The basis research of aged people's healthcare technology is very important, because our nation goes into an aged society rapidly. Especially in traditional medicine, pulse shapes of aged people were supposed to weak and empty pulse until now, but any objective measurement and compare research do not taken. Methods and Results: Therefore in this study we design observation study to find characteristic of pulse between younger group (age $20{\sim}30$) and elder group (age $43{\sim}80$) in Busan area. We used 3-dimensional pulse analyzer '3-D MAC' (Daeyomedi Co., Ltd.). And major parameters for comparison are 1) pulse height (h1), 2) applied pressure, 3) pulse power (energy), 4) high pressure duration (w) and 5) R-AI. Conclusions: According to analysis result, elder people's pulse has more large value in pulse height, applied pressure and pulse power than younger's that. It reveals that elder people in modernized lifestyle has Yang symptoms as well Yin symptoms. Consequently we need new method to care elder people's health, and this means more important direction than old text book. From now on verification research with objective diagnosis device like 3-D MAC, must be activated to build of evidence in traditional medicine. Cause traditional medicine's spirit of care and prevention is suitable to care elder people's cardiac and cerebral vascular disease those are have close relation with elder people.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.120-129
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• 2009

Purpose: This study was to explore elderly people's elder abuse experiences, and the relations between the abuse experiences (direct and indirect) and their level of activities of daily living, family relations and self-integrity. Method: A descriptive survey was conducted, and the participants were 108 elderly people. Data were analyzed using SPSS by descriptive statistics and t-test. Result: It was that indirect abuse experiences of the elder was higher than direct abuse experiences. In this research, the most common kind of direct elder abuse was 'psychological abuse and negligence', and the severity was low. The largest portion of indirect abuse experiences belonged to 'physical abuse and negligence', and the severity was high. The older people who had direct abuse experiences showed lowered self-integrity and serious family problems and stress. Conclusion: The experiences of elder abuse showed differences in family relations and self integrity. Hence, there should be a nursing intervention improving psycho-social factors such as self integrity and family relations, and systematic and easily available supporting organizations for victims of elder abuse.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제50권
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• pp.109-129
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• 2002

노인학대에 대한 사회적 관심이 일고 있는 현시점에서 가장 중요한 것은 노인학대에 대한 개념 규정이다. 최근 이 문제와 관련하여, 노인학대가 정책결정가나 전문가의 관점에서만 접근되어 왔을 뿐 노인들 자신의 목소리는 반영되지 않았다는 반성이 대두되고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 반성에 기반하여, 전문가나 다른 계층의 사람들이 아닌 노인들 스스로가 노인학대의 의미를 어떻게 구성하고 있는지를 질적 연구방법을 통해 검토하였다. 이 연구 목적을 달성하기 위해 10명의 노인들을 대상으로 노인, 노인학대, 그리고 사회적 개입에 대한 노인들의 주관적 인식을 조사하였다. 조사 결과, 대상 노인들은 독립성과 프라이버시를 추구하고 보호자로서 기능하고 있었기 때문에, 더 이상 기존의 노인에 대한 사회적 고정관념이 적절하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 자기 삶의 주체로서 기능하는 노인들은 노인학대에 대해서도 사회적 규정과 구별되는 그들 나름의 독특한 의미를 부여하고 있었다. 조사대상자들은 노인학대를 광범위하게 규정지음으로써 특정 계층의 노인에게만 해당되는 문제가 아닌 대부분의 노인들이 경험하는 보편적인 연상으로 이해하고 있었으며, 노인학대에 대한 사회적 개입도 처벌중심의 제한된 형태나 가족부양자를 지원하는 형태가 아닌 노인의 독립성과 프라이버시를 보장하고 회복시켜주는 방향으로 전개되어야 함을 제시했다.

• 정보통신설비학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2005

This study is about designing mobile phone display in consideration of elder people's preferences by reason of their optical weakness. The research is closely connected with designing user-friendly interface by considering user characteristics. The criteria for first experiment are font sizes, font types, line spacing and background colors. With the experiment result, relative importance of each attribute and subjective preference are investigated by conjoint analysis. Secondly, an optimal display design for elder people is presented by response surface method on the basis of the result of conjoint analysis, other statistical analyses, and user interviews.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.145-160
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to examine the concept and experience of the elder mistreatment among the elderly. To achieve the purpose of this study, data were collected from 160 elders with family members through questionnaires. The major finding is that the concept on elder mistreatment of the old people is found for the most part psycological abuse or neglect. And, when the degree of family support about the elderly is high, the experience of the elder mistreament appears low. Therefore, family support may be higher to prevent elder mistreatment. Also, social support in the side economical, physical or emotional services may help to bring down the elder's disability contributing to the elder mistreatment.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2010

Purpose: This study was designed to examine the relationship between nurses' characteristics and perception of seriousness of elder abuse. Method: A cross-sectional survey design was used to describe the perception of elder abuse by 301 nurses. Data were collected by convenience sampling. The research instruments utilized in this study were 12 scenarios adapted by Yoo & Kim from the 13 senarios to measure the perception of elder abuse developed by Moon and Williams (1993), a seven item questionnaires related to elder abuse law, and a Semantic Differential Scaling to measure attitudes toward elderly people. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson's correlation. Results: The mean score for perceptions of elder abuse was 3.07. Among the types of abuse, sexual abuse was perceived as the most severe type of abuse followed by physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse, and emotional abuse in that order. Education, job position, experience of gerontological nursing course, and education on elder abuse, exposure to elder abuse information, and attitudes toward elders were significantly related to the perception of seriousness on elder abuse. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that provision of elder abuse education is needed for nurses, to enable them to identify elder abuse and address their legal and professional responsibilities.

• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.183-189
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• 2018

Purpose : As age increases, a low-level systemic inflammatory state develops and the levels of anti-aging hormones decrease. The vagus nerve activates parasympathetic nerves and promotes sulfation and secretion of neurotransmitter in the brain. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of electrical vagus nerve stimulation on systemic inflammation (CRP) and anti-aging hormone (DHEA-S) levels in elder people. Methods : A total of 30 healthy elder people participated in this study, randomly divided into two groups of 15 subjects. Electrical vagus nerve stimulation was applied to the experimental group for 4 weeks. CRP and DHEA-S levels were compared with those of the control group. Results : The CRP level was significantly lower in the experimental group than in the control group. In the experimental group, there was a significant decrease in CRP before and after the intervention. However, the DHEA-S level was not significantly different between groups. Conclusion : Electrical vagus nerve stimulation may alleviate the low-level systemic inflammatory state found in elderly people. These results suggest that it may have the effect of reducing the degenerative inflammatory diseases of the elderly and delaying aging.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.426-436
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 독거노인의 사회계층인식이 우울에 미치는 영향에 있어서의 주관적 건강상태의 조절효과를 분석하는 것이다. 이를 위해 2014년 한국고용정보원의 '고령화연구패널 5차자료'를 활용하였다. 65세 이상 독거노인 774명의 데이터를 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 연령과 성별을 통제한 상태에서 독거노인의 사회계층인식이 높을수록 우울이 감소하는 것을 경험적으로 확인할 수 있었다. 둘째, 독거노인이 자신의 건강상태가 좋다고 인식할수록 우울의 수준 역시 감소하는 것으로 확인되었다. 셋째, 독거노인의 사회계층인식이 낮아도 주관적 건강상태가 좋다고 인식할 경우 우울의 수준 역시 감소하는 것으로 확인되었다. 다시 말해 독거노인의 건강상태에 대한 인식은 사회계층인식과 우울관계를 조절한다는 것이 검증되었다. 본 연구는 초고령 시대로 진입하는 한국사회의 노인의 정신건강문제를 해결하는 방안으로 노인의 사회계층 인식과 건강상태에 대한 체계적인 접근이 필요함을 확인시켜 준다는 점에서 의의를 지닌다.