• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2004

Background: The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between chewing ability and health status in order to provide basic information for the development of program which may lead to an improvement of a the elderly health status in urban areas. Materials and methods: The subjects of this study were 128 elderly urban female over the age of 65 who reside at house. The data were collected from May 21 to August 20, 2001, through questionnaires about nutrient intake status, direct measurement of anthropometrics, and oral examinations. Results: In terms of remaining teeth, there was significant negative relationship between age and number of remained teeth. The average number of remained teeth our subjects was $13.1{\pm}10.6$. About sixty five percent of the subjects were denture users (partial or full dentures) and there was positive relationship between age and the percentage of denture user. There was a significant negative correlation between age and chewing ability. The group that was able to chew had more remained teeth than the other group. Conclusion: This study suggests that there is strong positive relationship between chewing ability (remaining teeth) and elderly health status in urban areas, and the importance of preserving original teeth to improve the elderly health status in the public health program.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2010

This paper aims to propose a cognitive evaluation model to be utilized in designing game devices and developing relevant software with the purpose of the prevention of dementia of the elderly among various types of serious games for the elderly intending to improve their physical, mental or social capability. Firstly, a serious game for the elderly has been developed based on the guidelines of the areas pertaining to existing hardware, software and contents. Secondly, a pre-experiment of the game targeting specialists has been conducted in order to re-establish a cognitive evaluation model for the developed result. Thirdly, the cognitive evaluation model for the serious game for the elderly that intends to improve their cognitive capacity has been materialized based on the experiment results. Given the fact that the scope of game contents, most of which used to be focused on teenagers, have been gradually expanding to cover wider range of social classes than ever before, it is expected that the results of this study could be utilized as a model that can verify the games and their contents with special purposes based on the cognitive evaluation of the users.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.179-187
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose that it is necessary to expand the programs in the future, Iand it should be possible to activate and to participate the programs continuously, because the higher the participation in leisure program is, the higher life satisfaction.. The Korean Senior Citizens Association has a branch in each province and is used as a place where voluntarily provide friendship activities, hobbies for elderly people aged 65 and information exchange with other leisure activities. However, it was considered to be only a cursory space a few years ago, unlike the activation of leisure programs for the elderly welfare center. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of satisfaction of leisure program by type on life satisfaction of users who have experience in elderly university. The subjective health status and the residential type of participating elderly people differ in their life satisfaction. Therefore, it is important for the elderly to have regular health checkups and to maintain a stable residential style. And also, the experiment results show that life satisfaction was higher when leisure program use satisfaction was higher - especially, satisfaction with health program and health care program was higher.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.187-199
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• 2009

Content services for silver users on the ubiquitous technologies are getting attention as a new business model, monitoring users in real-time on the real-world and/or cyber-world. A lot of business and service model have been developed to apply silver or elder user. This study explained a state-of-the-art silver IT service to innovative services for users, ranging from home and finance to support for healthcare and living. Due to the variation of subtle terminologies, this study was conducted to restructure an adaptive terminology including some definitions. Current silver IT service model has been evaluated from the technical, functional, and business analyst, and its suitability has also been expressed in a proposed model and service. The purpose of this study was to propose a systematic approach of new IT service business model for silver users. A proposed model was described to explain the feasibility of the silver IT industry.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.354-377
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• 2002

Aging population is a global trend and Korea is no exception. Due to the progress of the medical and scientific sectors, increase in the average lifetime incurred increase in the number of elderly people. Meanwhile, the family function of supporting the elderly has become a major issue in a society due to the changes in the society's structure and increased entry of the women into the workforce. As a means to substitute the protection of the elderly who are not protected at their respective homes and to replace the tending needs, weekly protection centers and short-stay centers for the elderly were established and operated in Seoul since 1992. However, structured and satisfactory services are not yet to be provided, thus this research intends to understand the current situation at the short-stay centers for the elderly, to identify users' characteristics and to conduct study on nursing need for the health reasons so that the results of the research can be utilized as basic data for the development of nursing care program. Towards this end, this research targeted 142 elderly people who were undergoing treatment at the 11 short-stay centers for the elderly out of total of 13 located in Seoul that were willing to cooperate. The research was conducted from April to May 2002, with the measurement tool developed by Rhee, Seon-ja (2001) to measure the level of nursing need. Then data was collected and analyzed using SPSS program. The results are as follows. The general characteristics of users of the short-stay centers for the elderly were: 123 females $(86.6\%)$, 19 males $(13.4\%)$ and 72 elderly were over the age of 80 $(50.7\%)$. Among these, 24$(16.9\%)$ were living by themselves. Among the illnesses that the subjects were inflicted with were: dementia $(54.2\%)$, stroke $(54.1\%)$ and high blood pressure $(50.7\%)$, in the respective order. Despite the fact that they were diagnosed with illnesses, $47.2\%$ responded that they do not undergo special treatment due to financial reasons. When the level of needs for nursing care among the elderly who use the short-stay centers is divided into informational. physical. and emotional need levels and scored between zero to two, the level of emotional need is the highest with 1.80, followed by physical (1.45) and informational (1.44) need levels. As for the realities of services at the centers and improvement areas, restriction on term was cited as the greatest inconvenience with $38.7\%$, followed by lack of budget (24 respondents, $16.9\%$). Wishful services were financial assistance $(46.5\%)$, medical and nursing services $(40.1\%)$, meal provision service $(8.5\%)$ and counseling service $(4.9\%)$, in the respective order. Based on the above mentioned results, the research identified the need to develop nursing program for the patients of dementia that can be applied onto the short-stay centers and the need to develop volunteer service, backed by societal support. Also, placement of specialized cadre of professionals is needed so that medical and nursing service functions can be provided in a complementary manner.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.325-336
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• 2017

이 연구는 장기요양기관 노인의 일상스트레스, 자아탄력성, 삶의 질 변인 간 인과관계 모델을 설정하고 경로분석을 실시하였다. 수도권에 소재한 민간 노인장기요양기관의 이용자를 대상으로 최종 380명을 SPSS 22.0과 AMOS 22.0을 이용하여 일상스트레스, 자아탄력성, 삶의 질 변인 간 관계를 분석하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 노인의 일상스트레스는 삶의 질에 부(-)적인 직접 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 노인의 자아탄력성은 삶의 질에 정(+)적인 직접 효과가 있었다. 셋째, 노인의 일상스트레스는 자아탄력성에 정(+)적인 직접 효과가 나타났다. 넷째, 노인의 자아탄력성을 매개로 일상스트레스는 삶의 질에 간접 효과 및 부분 매개 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 노인의 삶의 질을 향상하기 위해서는 일상스트레스를 감소하고 자아탄력성을 높이기 위한 프로그램 개발 및 제도적 지원 방안이 필요하다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.576-594
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• 2007

본 연구는 GIS 공간분석기법을 활용하여 서울특별시의 각 동별 노인주간보호시설의 접근성 지수를 산출, 비교 분석하여 향후 시설의 신설 또는 확장을 할 경우에 운영의 공간적 효율성과 형평성을 향상시킬 수 있는 입지 후보지는 어디인지를 파악해 보는데 목적을 두었다. 연구 결과, 전반적으로 서울시 노인주간보호시설의 분포가 시설을 이용하리라 추정되는 노인인구의 분포를 반영하고 있지 못했고, 특히 강서구와 송파구 등 서울의 외곽경계지역에 해당하는 동들의 접근성이 가장 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과는 노인주간보호시설의 운영정책에 있어서 다음과 같은 함의를 가진다. 첫째, 시설이용 노인들의 복지시설에의 접근성 향상이라는 대전제 하에서는 현재 노인주간보호시설로 부터 상대적으로 거리가 먼 지역에서의 시설 설치가 요구된다. 둘째, 예산의 제약 등으로 추가적인 시설의 설치 없이 기존시설의 정원을 늘리는 정책을 전개할 경우 근접성이 높게 나타난 시설들의 규모를 우선적으로 확장함으로써 보다 많은 수의 노인들이 좀 더 용이하고 빈번하게 이용할 수 있도록 하는 것이 바람직하다. 마지막으로 접근성이 중시되는 다른 노인재가시설들과 사회복지시설의 설치와 확대, 평가에 있어서도 본 접근성 분석 기법을 적극 활용함으로써, 이동에 제약이 많은 복지시설 이용자들의 복지권을 보장하는 한편 사회복지 자원 투자의 당위성을 확보할 필요가 있다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2016

In this study we carry out usability evaluation for adjustable electric beds for home care that are used the most by the elderly, and examines dissatisfaction of users. In this sense, we performed an interview with stakeholders including bed users, developers and suppliers to develop usability evaluation contents. In addition, we carried out feasibility and reliability study over evaluation form through usability assessment, and developed usability evaluation indicator.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.353-361
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• 2017

본 연구는 경증치매노인을 위한 사회복지시설인 기억학교에서 제공하고 있는 서비스와 프로그램에 대한 이용자와 보호자의 인식을 조사함으로써 기억학교의 필요성과 효과성을 확인하는 기초자료를 제공하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 대구시에서 지정 설치한 기억학교 이용자와 보호자 363명을 대상으로 기억학교 이용 만족도 및 태도에 대해 조사를 하였다. 분석결과 기억학교의 이용이 이용자에게 매우 높은 수준의 도움이 된다고 인식하고 있으며, 동시에 보호자의 부양부담 감소에도 매우 높은 수준으로 의미 있음이 드러났다. 이를 통해 기억학교가 시설의 설치목적에 적절히 부합하는 효과성을 가지고 있음을 알 수 있다. 특히, 기억학교의 프로그램 수준, 서비스의 종류 등과 향후 지속성에 대한 만족도 정도가 90% 이상의 상당히 높은 결과가 나타났음을 알 수 있었다. 따라서, 본 연구를 통해 경증치매노인을 위한 사회복지적 대응에 대한, 그리고 이를 위해 기억학교에 대한 기초자료로 정책적 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.182-193
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• 2012

The percentage of senior citizens is increasing in Korea and it is expected to become an "aging society". Problems with the elderly are becoming a big concern, such as physical and mental illness, losing their jobs and having difficulties at home. But, the silver generation, as they are being known, has changed a lot these days. With the aid of medical developments, the elderly's lifespan has become longer, making them more independent and active. Senior Welfare Center's are places where the elderly can spend their golden years in comfort, meaningfully. Senior Welfare Center's these days provide many different programs, which naturally lead to an increase in elderly users. With the rise in welfare centers and users, research on the subject also grew. As this topic has only recently become an issue, there were not many spatial structure studies considering elderly movement. Therefore, there should be spatial structure research that considers older users space awareness and how it can be managed effectively. The goal of this study is to present basic resources for providing a comfortable senior welfare center for elders. This will be based on quantitative analysis derived from spatial structure research along with special construction characteristics based on the institution's general plan. As a research method, Senior Welfare Center's will be categorized into corridor type, hall type, and hybrid types which then be reproduced into a j-graph. Based on this, special structure characteristics and connection links will be comprehended. Then the connection link will be analyzed based on the space syntax result calculated from each type's integration, connectivity, control value, and intelligibility. The analysis result shows that Senior Welfare Center j-graph's average arrangement is hybrid>corridor>hall types. Those elders lacking awareness need easily perceivable spatial structure's and hall type's would be the best choice to increase their awareness as it has high articulation. However, hall type's would be difficult to construct with the size increase, so hybrid type would be the next logical solution. Space with relatively high articulation will need to be planned in hybrid type's where rest areas can be created within the halls in the Welfare Center in connection to its corridors.