• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.494-502
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• 2020

이 연구는 장기간 운동에 참여한 여성 노인들의 긍정심리자본 경험과 긍정심리자본 획득·발달에 영향을 미치는 요인을 심층적으로 이해하기 위하여 수행된 현상학적 연구이다. 우리나라는 여성이 남성보다 평균연령이 8세나 높고, 도움이 필요한 국내 노인 중 2/3가 여성이므로 여성 노인 문제에 관한 연구는 시급하다. 연구참여자는 서울시에 소재한 스포츠 센터 소속 여성 노인 7명이다. 자료수집은 2020년 3월부터 5월까지 1회 90~180분, 각 참여자당 2회의 심층 면담을 통해 진행되었으며, Colaizzi의 현상학적 연구방법을 활용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과 규칙적인 삶, 관계α관심의 삶, 변화하는 삶, 만족하는 삶이 노인 여성의 긍정심리자본을 획득α발달시키는 요인으로 나타났으며, 이것은 건강을 유지하고, 규칙성과 관계성을 유지하여야 가능한 것으로 나타났다. 운동으로 긍정심리자본을 획득하며 성공적인 노화를 이루어낸 참여자들의 경험은 고령 사회문제에 해법으로 제시되며, 나아가 노년기를 앞둔 청·장년층에게 성공적 노화를 위한 건강한 길잡이 역할을 할 것으로 예상한다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.161-168
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• 1997

나이가 들어가면서 나타나는 여러 가지 변화를 임상적으로 검사하고 측정하므로써 건강상태를 예측하는 것은 노화를 지연시키고 건강한 삶을 유지하는데 상당히 유용하고 기초적인지표가 될 것이다. 점차 증가일로에 있는 노인성 질환의 여러 문제점을 해결하기 위해 노령인구 집단을 정상군과 치매군으로 구분하여 13종의 임상화학 검사를 시행한 결과, 두 집단 사이에서, 임상 생화학적 검사의 양상이 다를 것이라는 예측대로의 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 즉, serum albumin, APase, glucose, GOT, LDH 등의 수치는 정상군과 치매군 사이에서 현저한 차이를 보이는 반면, bilirubin, BUN, cholesterol, creatinine, total protein 등의 검사 수치에서는 별다른 차이를 볼 수 없었으며 , 그밖에 calcium, GPT, Pi 검사 등의 결과에서도 두 집단 사이에서 차이를 보였다. 이것은 치매가 체내에서 많은 생화학적 변화를 일으킴을 시사하고, 치매 발병에 여러 가지 환경 요인이 영향을 미치게 될 것이라는 결론을 유도할 수 있게 한다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2013

The principle of aging-in-place should be fundamental in designing post-retirement homes to support baby boomers' healthy aging in their current living conditions. This study investigated Korean-American baby boomers' opinions about their life images in their post-retirement homes and the needs for supportive services therein. A questionnaire survey was conducted, and a total of 247 responses were used for statistical analyses. As the most important life image for their post-retirement homes, baby boomers emphasized the living environments offering various recreational activities. They indicated the post-retirement homes close to their children or family members as the next important life image. These opinions differed depending on their socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, baby boomers with higher-income preferred housing environments offering diverse recreational activities while those with lower-income preferred the housing close to more employment opportunities. In terms of supportive services available in the post-retirement homes, they wanted 'healthcare assistance services' and 'diverse recreational programs.' Gender, educational attainment, and annual income affected their preferences in these services, though. Based on the findings, this study concluded that post-retirement housing environments should create spaces to accommodate various recreational activities and include places for them to work in near-home environments. In the community, various need-based customized recreational activities and educational programs should be planned considering different socioeconomic characteristics of baby boomers. All these considerations will provide supportive residential environments for their successful aging in place.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.117-125
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• 2020

PURPOSE: Aging causes changes in the postural alignment and gait due to changes in the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. On the other hand, the relationship between the changes in posture alignment and gait is unclear. This study examined the relationship between the postural alignment and spatiotemporal gait parameters in Korean elderly women. METHODS: Thirty-two-healthy elderly women participated in this study. All subjects were assessed for their posture alignment and gait ability. Stepwise multiple linear regression was performed to determine to what extent the postural alignments could explain the spatiotemporal gait parameters. RESULTS: Coronal head angle was moderately correlated with the velocity (r = -.51), normalized velocity (r = -.46) and gait-stability ratio (r = .58) (p < .05). The trunk angle was moderately correlated with the normalized velocity (r = -.32) and gait-stability ratio (r = .32) and weakly correlated with the velocity (r = -.28) (p < .05). The coronal shoulder angle was moderately correlated with the swing phase (r = -.57), stance phase (r = .56), single limb stance (r = -.56) and double limb stance (r = .51) (p < .05). The coronal head angle and trunk angle accounted for 36% of the variance in velocity, 33% variance in normalized velocity and 46% variance in the gait-stability ratio (p < .05). The coronal shoulder angle accounted for 32% variance in the swing phase, 32% variance in the stance phase, 31% variance in the single limb stance and 26% variance in the double limb stance (p < .05). CONCLUSION: Changes in posture alignment in elderly women may serve as a biomarker to predict a decrease in walking ability due to physical aging.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.396-405
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 위계적 APC(Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort)모형과 2006~2016년 한국복지패널자료를 활용하여 베이비부머세대를 포함한 중장년 노년층(32~76세)의 가계부채규모 결정요인을 연령(Age), 기간(Period), 코호트(Cohort)로 구분하여 분석하는데 있다. 연구 분석에 사용된 대상자는 총 86,056명이다. 연구결과에 의하면 가계부채에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 연령효과와 기간효과는 통계적으로 유의하게 나타났으나, 베이비부머세대를 포함하는 특정시기 출생연도별 코호트(Cohort)효과는 통계적으로 유의하지 않았다. 연령이 한 단위 증가하면 가계부채도 353만원 증가하였지만 가계부채 증가폭은 연령증가에 따라 점차 감소하였다. 또한 연령이외의 개인단위변수로 경제활동여부, 건강상태 등이 가계부채규모에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 작용했다. 미취업자일수록, 건강상태가 좋지 않을수록 가계부채가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1363-1370
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• 2023

전세계적으로 노인의 인구가 증가하고 있어서, 현대의 가장 큰 관심은 고령화 사회의 건강한 노후 생활이나 노인 복지 및 의료 시설에 관한 것이다. 그러나 노인은 노화에 따라 인지 기능이 저하되는 경우가 많으며, 인지 활동은 노인에게 중요한 활동이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 메타버스를 활용한 고령자 대상 인지 활동 지원 시스템을 개발하였다. 이를 위해 노인의 특성과 니즈를 분석하여 메타버스에서 노인이 쉽게 이용할 수 있는 인터페이스를 설계했다. 또한, 인지 활동의 종류와 난이도를 조정하여 노인들이 흥미롭게 인지 활동에 참여할 수 있도록 시스템을 구현하였다. 실험 결과, 제안한 시스템은 노인의 인지 능력을 향상시키는 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제안한 개인화된 메타버스 기반의 인지 활동 지원 시스템은 노인의 인지 능력 향상을 위한 유용한 도구로 활용될 수 있다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.46-61
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• 2024

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: An increasing life expectancy in society has burdened healthcare systems substantially because of the rising prevalence of age-related metabolic diseases. This study compared the effects of animal protein hydrolysate (APH) and casein on metabolic diseases using aged mice. MATERIALS/METHODS: Eight-week-old and 50-week-old C57BL/6J mice were used as the non-aged (YC group) and aged controls (NC group), respectively. The aged mice were divided randomly into 3 groups (NC, low-APH [LP], and high-APH [HP] and fed each experimental diet for 12 weeks. In the LP and HP groups, casein in the AIN-93G diet was substituted with 16 kcal% and 24 kcal% APH, respectively. The mice were sacrificed when they were 63-week-old, and plasma and hepatic lipid, white adipose tissue weight, hepatic glucose, lipid, and antioxidant enzyme activities, immunohistochemistry staining, and mRNA expression related to the glucose metabolism on liver and muscle were analyzed. RESULTS: Supplementation of APH in aging mice resulted in a significant decrease in visceral fat (epididymal, perirenal, retroperitoneal, and mesenteric fat) compared to the negative control (NC) group. The intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test and area under the curve analysis revealed insulin resistance in the NC group, which was alleviated by APH supplementation. APH supplementation reduced hepatic gluconeogenesis and increased glucose utilization in the liver and muscle. Furthermore, APH supplementation improved hepatic steatosis by reducing the hepatic fatty acid and phosphatidate phosphatase activity while increasing the hepatic carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity. Furthermore, in the APH supplementation groups, the red blood cell (RBC) thiobarbituric acid reactive substances and hepatic H₂O₂ levels decreased, and the RBC glutathione, hepatic catalase, and glutathione peroxidase activities increased. CONCLUSIONS: APH supplementation reduced visceral fat accumulation and alleviated obesity-related metabolic diseases, including insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis, in aged mice. Therefore, high-quality animal protein APH that reduces the molecular weight and enhances the protein digestibility-corrected amino acid score has potential as a dietary supplement for healthy aging.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2009

The purpose of the study is to examine the demographic characteristics and socio-psychological factors affecting willingness to take health foods among elderly, which is to get the basic materials of educational program for helping their desirable intake of healthy food. The data were collected from 1,032 elderly subjects and analyzed by SPSS Windows Version 12.0. About forty-one percent of the respondents were taking health foods in the period of survey. The main reason of taking health foods was to maintain and improve their health. The elderly subjects were classified into three groups: (1) a group having willingness to take healthy food, (2) a group having unwillingness to take healthy food, and (3) a group having a wait-and-see attitude. According to the results of chi-square and analysis of one-way variance, there were significant differences among three groups in the variables of 'sex', 'age', 'educational level', 'marriage status', 'monthly allowance', 'eating habit', 'concerns about health', 'self -evaluation of health condition', 'self-evaluation of health condition compared to the same age', 'concerns about health foods', and 'awareness of health foods'. In addition, the result of multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that the factors affecting willingness to take health foods in the future are 'age', 'concerns about health', 'self-evaluation of health condition compared to the same age', 'awareness of health foods', and 'intake of health foods in the period of survey'.

• 대한한의학원전학회지
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• 제3권
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• pp.1-150
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• 1989

Oriental medicine thinks life and death as the following. 1. The universe seems to be a kind of organism which is divided into 3 branches, as Heaven, Earth and Man. Man is not created from nihil by the Creator. Heaven and Earth by their interaction operate to produce man. This is similiar that zygote is not created from nihil, and that sperm and ovum are transformed into zygote by their interaction. The symbolic meaning of sperm is Heaven, and that of ovum is Earth. Mind and body, as well as spirit and body, are not the real, but artificial words for the purpose of observing and expressing one man. So there is not spiritual substance as distinct from body. The expected life span of man is subjected to change, and is always becoming through life. Fate, the Creator and the world to come cannot be said to be. 2. After one's death, man is transformend into Heaven and Earth. Dying is this process of transformation. Although man comes into existence and closes one's life, the total life of the universe does not change. The criteria of determination of death is not in cell death, but in somatic death. Somatic death divided into 2 branches, one is heart-lung death, the other is brain death. For the standard of health changes ceaselessly as time goes by, aging and dying is not the process of losing health. Because of mind cannot be seperated from body, we'll feel at ease bodily and mentally in healthy dying. The completion of lifetimes is the value of healthy dying. 3. From the viewpoint of these, we must think to let a person die healthily is the right medical ethics. The way to let a person die healthily is divided into 3 branches, one is treatment, another is prevention and the other is promotion of health. We should treat and prevent death of sickness, but take care of healthy dying.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.231-240
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• 2001

Purpose: Normal aging results in detectable changes in the brain structure and function. We evaluated the changes of regional cerebral glucose metabolism in the normal aging process with FDG PET. Materials and Methods: Brain PET images were obtained in 44 healthy volunteers (age range 20-69 'y'; M:F = 29:15) who had no history of neuropsychiatric disorders. On 6 representative transaxial images, ROIs were drawn in the cortical and subcortical areas. Regional FDG uptake was normalized using whole brain uptake to adjust for the injection dose and correct for nonspecific declines of glucose metabolism affecting all brain areas equally. Results: In the prefrontal, temporoparietal and primary sensorimotor cortex, the normalized FDG uptake (NFU) reached a peak in subjects in their 30s. The NFU in the prefrontal and primary sensorimotor cortex declined with age after 30s at a rate of 3.15%/decade and 1.93%/decade, respectively. However, the NFU in the temporoparietal cortex did not change significantly with age after 30s. The anterior (prefrontal) posterior (temporoparietal) gradient peaked in subjects in their 30s and declined with age thereafter at a rate of 2.35%/decade. The NFU in the caudate nucleus was decreased with age after 20s at a rate of 2.39%/decade. On the primary visual cortex, putamen, and thalamus, the NFU values did not change significantly throughout the ages covered. These patterns were not significantly different between right and left cerebral hemispheres. Of interest was that the NFU in the left cerebellar cortex was increased with age after 20s at a rate of 2.86%/decade. Conclusion: These data demonstrate regional variation of the age-related changes in the cerebral glucose metabolism, with the most prominent age-related decline of metabolism in the prefrontal cortex. The increase in the cerebellar metabolism with age might reflect a process of neuronal plasticity associated with aging.