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Of the Factors Organizing Independent Living of the Disabled, the Effect of Self-Determination Right and Empowerment on the Community Relation and Productivity (장애인 자립생활의 구성요인 중 자기결정권과 역량강화가 공동체관계 및 생산성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Che Sik
    • 재활복지
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.221-244
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    • 2013
  • This study made an exploratory verification targeting severely-disabled persons on how self-determination right and empowerment of the factors organizing independent living affect community relation and productivity of the disabled. For the foregoing, this study collected data for about 2months from May through July 2012 targeting the disabled using Center for Independent Living and the Center for Human Right of the Disabled. As a result of research, this study revealed First, the level of self-determination right of the disabled differed meaningfully depending on the variables such as age, academic ability, existence of spouse, receiving pension, monthly income, residential type, time of occurrence of disability and disability rating, and in the level of empowerment, it showed a meaningful difference according to the factors like academic ability and disability rating. Second, the level of formation of community relation differed meaningfully according to the variables such as age, academic ability, existence of spouse, residential type, time of occurrence of disability, disability rating etc., and the level of productivity showed a meaningful difference according to the variables such as academic ability, existence of spouse, receiving pension, monthly income, multiple disabilities, disability rating etc. Third, as a result of investigation on the effect of self-determination right and empowerment of the disabled on their community relation, both self-determination right and empowerment turned out to have a meaningful and positive (+) effect on the community relation of the disabled. Fourth, as a result of investigation on the effect of self-determination right and empowerment of the disabled on their productivity, this study found that only the variable of empowerment exercises a meaningful and positive (+) influence on the productivity of the disabled. Therefore, self-determination right and empowerment are considered an important variable for enabling them to enjoy independent living in the future by strengthening community relation and productivity of the disabled. For this, it is required to fulfill social welfare and recognize the significance of self-determination right and empowerment in the process of rehabilitation, and develop as well as revitalize a variety of programs related to the above.

A Study on Evaluation of Residential Environments and Residential Alterations for Physically Disabled Women (여성지체장애인 가정의 주택 개조 실태 및 거주자의 물리적 주거환경 평가에 관한 연구)

  • 최재순;권오정;이의정
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.39 no.11
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2001
  • In order to develop a manual of residential alterations for the physically disabled, this case study was accomplished to analyze and evaluate residential environments and residential alterations for physically disabled women. Twenty-nine physically disabled women in Seoul and Kyunggi areas were the subjects of this study. With the evaluation checklist on physical environments of their housing, data on general characteristics of wall, floor, and all features and equipments and spaces of bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, living mom, entrance and balcony were gathered. Also, data on residential alterations were gathered through personal interviews. The data were collected from July 18th to July 25th in 2000. Frequency, percentage, and mean were used to analyze the data. In kitchen, small space, hee space under the sink and heights of the lower cabinets were not properly provided. In bathroom, door width, direction of opening door, adjustable height of shower, level difference, clear space for wheelchair user, and storage place were not appropriate to the disabled. Kitchen and bathroom showed high frequencies of alteration. But most of the subjects were not satisfied with the alterations of their housing. They also wanted to alter these two spaces in the future. In order to after their housing effectively appropriate information of the residential alterations was needed. If a guide or manual book for residential alterations was provided, the physically disabled people will more easily after their housing for safe and independent life.

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A Case Study on Housing Alterations for the Physically Disabled Woman in Sweden (스웨덴 여성 지체 장애인을 위한 주택 개조 사례연구)

  • 최재순;이의정
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.115-128
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    • 2001
  • Housing is the most important environment for the disabled because they spend most of this in their housing. However, their housing do not fully support their housing needs. Most of the hoses are designed for the healthy young people. Therefore, the disabled often have accidents in their homes. The physically disabled people want to stay in their homes and familar environment as long as possible. In order for the disabled to live in the housing as long as they want, the housing should support their safe and independent living. For this purpose, the housing is required to be altered to fit their needs. Sweden is one of the best welfare countries in the world. The Swedish government supports all the expenses for the disabled to stay in their housing and familiar environments. The study was to investigate a case on housing alterations for the physically disabled woman in Sweden. In addition, this study suggested the applications and adaptability of the housing alterations for the physically disabled in Korea.

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A Study on the Architectural Planning of the Disabled Rehabilitation Facilities with the Independent Living Paradigm (자립생활 패러다임에 의한 장애인종합복지관의 건축계획 연구)

  • Seong, Ki-Chang
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2007
  • The rehabilitation facilities for disabled people keeps going to grow with social changes that disabled people are dramatically increasing. This paper try to provide basic concept of the architectural planning for the disabled rehabilitation facilities. To accomplish this purpose this study has analyzed the behavior pattern of user with disabilities. This study has introduced the problem of using space in the rehabilitation and welfare facilities for the disabled and the architectural concept for resolve it. The architectural planning concept appears by barrier-free accessibility, safety for mobility and use, amenity integrated the spatial cognition and flexible structural system.

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Content Analysis on Housing Design Guidelines for the Disabled in Korea (국내 장애인주택 디자인가이드라인 내용분석 연구)

  • Kim, Boae;Lee, Yeunsook
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2015
  • Purpose : With a recently growing population of the disabled, the importance of creating the living environment for them has been emphasized, making the design guidelines to play more important role in this sense. This research aims to generalize the existing design guidelines for the housing for the disabled, diagnose their problems, and suggest a systematic and consistent milestone of the guidelines developed in the future. Method : The analysis objects of this research are 1910 categories of the design guidelines for the domestic housing for the disabled, and the research removed the redundancy and separated multi-complex categories. A total of 1424 independent categories were extracted, and been conducted content analysis from three aspects of redundancy, sub-categorization system and descriptive form based on the extracted categories. Results : Redundancy analysis figured out important characteristics by space. Moreover, the current guideline system can be integrated by analysis of sub-category system. Lastly, the research found that the guidelines need to be understood more easily and suggested under accurate criteria by analyzing the descriptive forms. Implication : This research holds significance as a fundamental data to improve the design guidelines for the disabled in the future, ultimately contributing to a better quality of life of the disabled.

A Study on the Agreement and Bias between Parents' Proxy report and Self-report of People with Developmental Disabilities (발달장애인 부모의 대리 의사표시의 정합도와 편향에 관한 연구)

  • Chun, Dong-il;Jeon, Ji-Hye
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze whether parents with developmental disabilities are well represented by the persons with developmental disabilities. Analysis data is based on the data from the Survey on Disability Survey in 2014. We analyzed the consistency and biases of the parent's proxy respondents' opinions by the degree of agreement between the contents of the person with developmental disabilities and the value of items that the parents answered on behalf of the development disabled. First, the parents' proxy respondents responded well to the actual situation such as life satisfaction for the developmental disabled, while the parental proxy respondents showed the positive bias to overestimate the cost items and the negative bias to recognize the discrimination. Second, in relation to independent living, the majority of the parents of the developmental disabled respondents had a high agreement with the developmental disabled person. However, about 5 ~ 10% of the parents' proxy respondents seem to have a tendency to distort the independent living policy by preferring non-standard housing types, unlike those with developmental disabilities. Based on this, it was proposed that the respondents should be able to receive the answers of the possible parties in the future research on desire and independent living related intention toward the developmental disabled, and the research on the matching of the proxy response is needed in a multidimensional manner.

Comparative Analysis of Rural and Urban Residential Interior Elements Affecting Physically Disabled's Independence (재가지체장애인의 자립을 저해하는 농촌과 도시의 주거실내 환경요소에 대한 비교연구)

  • Park, Ji-Young;Jang, Mi-Seon;Lee, Yeun-Sook
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.132-141
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    • 2016
  • For those with disabilities, the residential area is the primary place to adapt the disabilities. Since the quality of the area gives a critical impact on their quality of life, it is essential to finding the measures to create the residential environment that supports their independence. In this regard, this study aimed to compare and analyze the interior elements of the houses that hinder the independence of the physically handicapped in the rural and urban areas, and conducted a survey on a total of 80 physically challenged in Seoul and Yeongwol (40 for each area). As a result, the respondents answered that the houses where they are currently living are hindering their independence regardless of area, and there were regional differences in the level of inconvenience with the size of living room, size of utility room, location of room, lighting and heating environment, ventilation system, deteriorated wallpapers and finishing materials, threshold and floor level difference and humidity control. This study has significance by providing the realistic measures to improve the housing environment of the physically challenged living in the rural and urban areas to be customized to them to increase their quality of life.

A Study on the Improvement of Independent Loan Fund Business for low-income Disabled (저소득장애인을 위한 장애인자립자금대여사업 개선방안 연구)

  • Park, Ju-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.691-704
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to analyze the current situation of Independent loan fund business for disabled for independent and living stabilization of low-income disabled and presented a plan to support effectively. Methods were reanalyzed to obtain the data inside the Ministry of Health and Welfare and conducted a expert survey. The results of this study were First, The budget was 8.1 billion won and target households was 800, but the used budget was about 5.6 billion won(executive rate was 69.3%) and beneficiaries was 384 families. Second, the loan condition was gurantee is 58.5%, pawn is 23.3%, ungurantee is 18.2%. And, the loan type was occupation is 60.0%, car purchase is 35.3%, medical expenses is 2.6% and so on. In addition, 1,735 people apply for a loan fund but 904 people received a loan fund. So, loan rate was 52.1%. Third, business retention rate was 74.7% and close rate was 25.3%. Fourth, expert opinion was government support necessary for the in low-income disabled in social and economic situation of Korea. This study suggested that the loan purpose, loan amount, loan condition, simplified course were needed to consider when establishing policy for low-incone disabled.

A Study on Social Integration of Person With Disabilities based on Independent Living Paradigm : Life Span (자립생활 패러다임에 따른 장애인의 사회통합에 관한 연구 : 생애주기를 중심으로)

  • Park, Soo-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.58 no.1
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    • pp.237-264
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the level of social integration of the person with physical disabilities based on independent living paradigm according to life span and to find factors affecting social integration and therefore to make policy implications for a better rehabilitation system. The data was obtained through telephone interviews with physically disabled residing in the city of Seoul and the suburb area of the city. The final sample consists of 591 respondents. The data was analyzed through frequency, oneway anova, pearson's correlation analysis, and multiple regression. In this study, social integration based on independent living paradigm was divided into separate but related dimensions: autonomy of activity daily living, accessibility, economic level, degree of social support satisfaction, consumer control, psychological empowerment. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, the levels of six dimensions of social integration based on independent living paradigm were very different and especially the level of dimensions such as degree of social support satisfaction and consumer control were lower than other dimensions of social integration. Second, each level of social integration by life span was very different. Finally, the factors affecting social integration were socio-psychological traits such as social support, rehabilitation services, self esteem and acceptance of disability as well as the attribution to disability. The current findings suggest that improving nay only ADL or accessibility but also consumer control or social support should be considered by professional and policy makers. And differentiated intervention and policy according to life span necessary to policy makers and field practitioners.

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Theoretical Comparison between Social Model of Disability and Independent Living Model (장애에 대한 사회적모델과 자립생활모델에 대한 이론적 비교 연구)

  • KIM, JIN-WOO
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.39-63
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    • 2010
  • This research is to make the identity of the two models clear by reviewing the similarities and differences between Social Model of Disability from U.K. and Independent Living Model from United States. Research results are as follows. As for differences, Social Model of disability intended to change disability paradigm by focusing society itself as the cause of disability rather than individuals, however Independent Living Model stressed on the freedom and control through disabled people's life with self-advocacy group and personal assistants. As for similarities, there are self-representatives, social responsibility for disability, alienation of people with intellectual disabilities at the initial stage, background in legislating Disability Discrimination Acts in both countries. This result has its significances because it shows theoretical framework which make it possible to review further how disability practice and movements understand the two models regardless of their real contents and how the two affected the induction and proceeding of Korean Discrimination Act and Independent Living Paradigm in the Disability Welfare Act.