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A study on the evaluation of elderly care facilities for elderly people with dementia using the therapeutic environment elements (치유환경요소를 이용한 치매노인요양시설 평가 연구)

  • Cho, Ju-Young;Lee, Hyo-Won
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • 제16권1호
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2010
  • This study is to realize the importance of the therapeutic environment of nursing facilities for elderly people; to comparatively analyze the therapeutic environment elements of the facilities in Gwangju, Jeonnam area, Seoul, and Japan by classifying the therapeutic environment elements according to two aspects on the basis of preceding studies; and to find out the differences among the three regional groupsnaFirst, all therapeutic elements were put together on the basis of two preceding studies based on the two aspects. Second, an expert group was organized primarily with architects and care-givers to find out the therapeutic environment elements of nursing facilities for elderly people with dementia, and to draw up an evaluation standard. Third, the regional differences were analyzed, by comparing the distribution of therapeutic elements of the facilities in Gwangju-Jeonnam area, Seoul, and Japan, through the found therapeutic environment elements. Consequently, eighteen therapeutic environment elements were found out of total 32 elements, and the elements were classified into nine factors based on the meaning of each element. The therapeutic environment elements were showed highest in Japan, and lowest in Gwangju-Chonnam area according to the comparative case analysis based on the nine factors. Especially, there were great regional differences in terms of awareness, safety, orientation, privacy, and freedom of choice.

Evaluation Analysis of Lounges in Elderly Skilled Nursing Facilities as Spaces for Activity Programs (프로그램 수행공간으로서 무료노인전문요양시설의 휴게홀 평가분석)

  • Lee, Min-Ah
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.513-525
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze physical characteristics, spatial composition, and using behavior of lounges in elderly skilled nursing facilities as spaces for activity programs and also to evaluate the spaces with the framework based on the indices for performing activity programs in elderly facilities. The results of the study were as follows: First, the lounge of an independent type ensured the privacy to perform programs, and so activities were managed more systematically. On the other hand, an expanded corridor type made the elderly feel difficult to pay attention to activities due to co-use of lounges and corridors. In a lounge of a hall type, the elderly had easy access to the place, but it also had weak home-like atmosphere because the space was used as a lobby entrance. Second, the facilities with western types of tables in whole lounges showed big changes in spatial composition, such as moving all the tables for any activities. It resulted in more preparation time and created obstacles in passages and space use. Third, in the evaluation of lounges based on the framework, most of lounges had accessibility of good quality, but they needed to improve home-like atmosphere and flexibility. To create home-like atmosphere, various spatial compositions and classifications in the lounge should be tried. Moreover, enough space and easy movable furniture can be considered for flexible spatial compositions.

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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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    • 한국실내디자인학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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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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The Importance and Performance of Nursing Interventions Perceived by Nurses in Long-term Care Facilities for Elderly (노인요양시설에서 활용되는 간호중재의 중요도와 수행도 분석)

  • Kim, Young-Ae;Hwang, Hye-Young;Park, Hyun-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: This study was to identify nursing interventions which were perceived highly in the importance and performance of nursing interventions by nurses in long-term care facilities for elderly. Method: Data was collected from nurses working in long-term care facilities for elderly over 2 years who participated in continuous education by Korea Association of Senior Citizens Welfare Institution. Data was analyzed using mean and paired t-test to compare difference between the importance and performance of each nursing intervention. Results: Among 264 nursing intervention, 49 nursing interventions were considered highly important and performed very often by nurses. Especially, 11 nursing interventions had significant difference between the importance and the performance, which meant that nurses perceived them as the most important and they were not implemented often as much as that by nurses. Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that what kinds of the nursing interventions were perceived highly important and performed very often by nurses in long-term care facilities for elderly. These nursing interventions can be utilized in the development of standardized nursing intervention classification to be used for the long-term care facilities for elderly.

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A Study of Characteristics and demands of the Potential Residents of Privately Funded Housing for the Aged -In reference to Korea and japan (유료노인홈의 입주희망자의 속성과 시설요구에 관한 연구 -한.일 양국의 비교-)

  • 이종협;강건희
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • 제18호
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 1999
  • The recent increase in elderly population poses various problems in the field of social infrastructure and the living environments for the aged. Providing enough housing for the elderly has become one of the fundamental goals in social welfare policies. In light of these current condition, it is necessary to understand the demands of the aged in terms of the standards of living conditions in which they would be satisfied in order to better serve them. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide basic design data for architects and builders by analysing the demands and characteristics of residents in privately-owned housings for the elderly in Korea and Japav. The method of this research was based on the comparison analysis of polls taken in Korea and Japav. The results of this research are as follows: Because the polls show that the elderly want to continue their current life-style after placed in a elderly-care facility, when designing housing for the elderly, it must not be considered separate from the general society. it must be designed in way so that the residents can fully interact with the general society. Also, in order to achieve above goals, social welfare policies must be reconsidered to meet the needs of the aged populatiov.

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A Study on the Elderly's Experience of Using Public Libraries (고령자의 공공도서관 이용 경험에 관한 연구)

  • Jong-Ae Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • 제58권3호
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    • pp.359-380
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    • 2024
  • The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of the library use behavior and preferences of the elderly by exploring positive and negative experience factors in the use of public libraries by the elderly. To this end, the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) was applied and individual in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly people who use public libraries. Analysis of the collected data was conducted by applying the constant comparison method, and 12 categories of positive experience factors and 12 categories of negative experience factors were derived under four areas: data, service-program, environment-facility, and emotion. Based on these results, suggestions were made regarding public library services for the elderly.

A Study on Burnout of the Workers in Elderly Living Facilities (노인생활시설 종사자의 소진(消盡)에 관한 연구)

  • Lee In-Soo
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • 제24권1호
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    • pp.55-69
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    • 2006
  • This study has been performed to investigate group differences and determining factors of burnout of the workers in elderly living facilities. In this study, 131 male and female workers composed of social workers, health practitioners, and other management workers were selected among 23 retirement and nursing facilities in Korea between 2003 and 2005. They were asked about their socioeconomic background, working environment, and their perceptions on burnout in the working places. As for main dimensions of the burnout, there were three elements such as emotional weariness, diminishing personal accomplishment, and depersonalized behaviors. Particularly in this study, the depersonalized behaviors were defined as aggressive or rude verbal and behavioral outbursts from anger. As a result of this study, the following results were found: Most workers have medium level of perception on their commitment and burnout, but there. are some risk factors; newly married young workers were less satisfied or fairly rewarded with their job and as a result, they have significantly higher level of emotional weariness but lower feeling of personal accomplishments. In addition, they occasionality practiced aggressive or rude behaviors such as yelling, threatening, and physically harassing As for the influence of determining variables, long-time workers of long established facilities were more satisfied and less burnout. In addition, there are some impacts of job category; health practitioners were more burnout than social workers. In this study, suggestions are made as follows: first, guiding and settlement programs should be developed for the newly started young married workers, particularly at early stage of their career. Second, future aspects of facility visions should be guided for the workers, so that they are relieved from stressful routines without any future plan. Third, medical workers such as physical therapists and nurses should be further monitored for main reasons of increasing their stress.

Spatial Configuration Analysis of the Elderly Care Facilities Based on Visibility - Visibility Analysis and Agent-Based Simulation Using Space Syntax - (가시성에 기반한 노인요양시설의 공간계획에 관한 분석 - 공간구문론을 활용한 가시성 분석과 에이전트 시뮬레이션을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Jisun;Lee, Hyunsoo
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • 제27권3호
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    • pp.14-23
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    • 2018
  • The spatial planning of the elderly care facility plans is analyzed using space syntax in terms of encouraging the social interaction of the residents in this study. First, through the visibility graph analysis, openness and accessibility of space is analysed. Second, the walking behavior of residents through agent analysis model is simulated. Third, the space planning methods for the elderly care facilities are proposed based on the results. The results are as follows. According to the visibility graph analysis, the main corridor has high visual openness and high accessibility. The visual openness and accessibility of the unit living room, where social interaction among residents is possible in each unit, is low. Space planning is needed to increase direct protection and observation of employees to the unit living room. The location of the nurse station that manages the entire floor needs to be located where the openness and accessibility is most high. The nursing station should have a high degree of connectivity to the entire space, so that any accidents can be managed and contact is accessible. Through the agent simulation the flow from the center to each unit space is highest in the corridor space and the inflow to the private rooms and the living room are similar. Therefore, it is necessary to plan the accessibility of the unit living room more for the natural inflow of residents.

A Study on the Effects of Internal Marketing Factors to Job Satisfaction, Emotional Labor, and Organizational Commitment of the Elderly Care Facility Employee (노인요양시설 종사자들의 내부마케팅 요인이 직무만족, 감정노동 및 조직몰입에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Sun;Lee, Seung-Hee
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.251-258
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of internal marketing factors on organizational commitment and emotional labor in the elderly Care Worker. The data are collected through structured questionnaires. The Subjects of the final analysis is 191 persons working in the elderly care facilities in Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk provinces. Hypothesis testing of the research model is performed using AMOS 18.0. The main results of this study are as follows. Internal marketing factors influenced only internal communication and management support for job satisfaction, internal support for managerial support for emotional labor, internal communication and management support for organizational commitment. The results of this study suggest that in order to enhance the organizational commitment of long-term care workers, it is important not to strengthen internal marketing capacity but to increase job performance first, and secondly, to improve job performance, It is necessary to establish a more diversified research on the variables of service quality of job satisfaction and emotional labor.

Walking Environment Survey for Development of Specification on Personal Mobility (PM) Device for Elderly (고령자용 개인교통수단 개발 사양 정의를 위한 보행환경 조사)

  • Kim, Youngmin;Kim, Jisoo;Moon, Byeongsup
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • 제16권6호
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    • pp.156-168
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    • 2017
  • Personal mobility (PM) can increase the mobility of individual, so that the elderly can be set as the target group for using PM because of relatively low walking ability to normal. In this study, we design PM device for elderly that can be used safely in the walking environment such as sidewalk. There are various obstacles in the walking environment, so the device must have mechanical performance to overcome all of them. In this study, we survey the status and level of obstacle factors in walking environment to determine the dynamic performance of the PM device for elderly. We check up several guidelines about walking facilities to define obstacle points for the device, establish field survey methodologies, and conduct field survey for some specific road sections. Based on the survey results, we confirm the possible problems that could arise when the dynamic performance of the device is selected based on the facility-related criteria. We also define the performance requirements for the device based on the requirements for electric wheelchair.