• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of parent-to-child financial transfers and economic resources on financial transfers, caregiving, and time donated from middle-aged adult children to their elderly parents. Analyzing data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which provides long-term observations of financial reciprocity and recent reports about elder care, the current study finds strong positive effects of prior parent-to-child financial transfers in the models of caregiving and time; which indicates the importance of reciprocity. In terms of determinants of resource transfers, the findings of logistic regression analyses suggest that the economic resources of parents and adult children are strong determinants of child-to-parent financial resource transfers. Sociodemographic characteristics of parents and respondents were observed as strong determinants of caregiving or time. In addition, caregiving responds more to the health and income levels of parents whereas donated time is responsive to the net worth of parents and parents' status. For adult children, gender is a strong determinant of both caregiving and time donation. The long-term health problem of adult children is a statistically significant predictor of caregiving, while the employment status of adult children and the number of siblings have statistically a significant association with time donated to care for the parents.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.395-403
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• 2021

Objectives: Previous studies have shown that participation in social activities (SA) can prevent cognitive decline (CD) and that living arrangements (LA) can affect cognitive function. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of SA and LA on CD, as well as their interactions, using longitudinal data. Methods: Data were used from the 2006-2018 Korean Longitudinal Study for Aging, which followed 10 254 adults older than 45 years over a 12-year period. CD was defined as a ≥4-point score decrease in the Mini-Mental Status Exam over 2 years. We developed an extended Cox proportional hazards model for time-dependent covariates to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) of CD in 4 groups: (1) socially active and living with others, (2) socially active and living alone, (3) socially inactive and living with others (SILO), and (4) socially inactive and living alone (SILA). The model was stratified by gender and adjusted for important confounders. Results: The HR of CD was significantly higher in the SILO group in men (HR,1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08 to 1.78) and in the SILA group in women (HR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.08 to 2.75). However, the interaction term for gender was not significant. Conclusions: Among socially inactive elderly adults, the HR of CD was elevated in men who lived with others and in women who lived alone, although the interaction term for gender was not significant. Socially inactive men who live with others and socially inactive women who live alone are particularly encouraged to participate in SA to prevent CD.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2021

This study was conducted on 1,174 retirees in their 50s and 60s nationwide using the 7th data of the National Pension Service's National Elderly Security Panel Survey. We were able to confirm the following results through the SPSS WIN 18.0 program.. First, men showed a higher level of education than women. From these results, it is expected that men will be better prepared for retirement. Second, men had spouses and two or more household members than women. According to previous studies showing that men are better prepared for retirement if they have a spouse, it is expected that men are better prepared for retirement. Second, 38% of men and 62% of women were voluntary retirees. Third, both men and women responded that their own and spouses should play the main role in preparing for retirement. Fourth, both men and women had very low rates of preparation for old age, economic independence, and public and private pensions. Among them, women were lower than men. Fifth, economic problem solving, health, and medical care were the priority as parts to be done for retirement in oneself and society. Based on these results, the directions for preparing retirees for retirement are as follows. First, education on wage peak system, retirement age extension and financial management for involuntary retirees is required, and guidance and management methods on health care and disease should be provided to address needs for health and health care. Women had more voluntary retirees than men, and they need to know why. Second, when both men and women are very poor at preparing for retirement, there should be job creation measures to ensure that they and their spouses are fully prepared for retirement.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.1420-1425
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• 2005

Purpose: We try to disclose how much the keywords of the papers from the Journal of the Korean Academy of Nursing coincide with MeSH terminologies and to understand the major subjects of the recent nursing research in Korea from keywords. Methods: Keywords of journals were extracted and compared with MeSH terms. The frequency of the appearance of each keyword was sorted by a descending order. Results: Coincidence rate of 1,235 keywords with MeSH terms was $51.6\%$. Out of them, depression, elderly, stress, self efficacy, quality of life, exercise, middle-aged women, and women appeared most frequently in descending order. Conclusion: Coincidence rate of the keywords with MeSH terms was at an acceptable level, however to improve it, the education of submitters and editorial board members are required, as well as the copy editor, to take a role in checking keywords. To infer the subjects of the research from keywords might well represent the recent topics of research work.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.141-155
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• 2024

연구배경: 최근 국내 중고령층 수면무호흡증 환자 수는 증가되는 추세이며, 그 중 가장 임상적으로 흔히 나타나는 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증은 전반적인 건강 및 웰빙과 연관된다. 이에 본 연구는 한국 중고령층의 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증 위험과 주관적 건강 및 건강 관련 삶의 질 간의 연관성을 파악하고자 하였다. 방법: 2019-2020년 국민건강영양조사(Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey VIII) 전체 응답자 22,559명 중 40세 이상 성인을 추출하여, 결측치가 없는 총 6,659명의 중고령층을 대상으로 데이터를 2차 분석하였다. 그리고 로지스틱 회귀분석과 다중회귀분석을 통해 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 위험 여부와 주관적 건강 및 건강 관련 삶의 질 간의 연관성을 조사하였다. 결과: 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 비위험군에 비해 위험군인 경우 주관적 건강이 저하될 오즈비는 1.84배(p<0.001) 통계적으로 유의하게 높았고, 건강 관련 삶의 질은 0.02점(β, -0.02; p<0.001) 통계적으로 유의하게 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 특정 변수에 대해 하위그룹 분석을 실시한 결과, 성별, 수면시간, 우울증 여부, 가구소득, 가구원 수에 따라 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 위험과 주관적 건강 및 건강 관련 삶의 질 간의 연관성이 통계적으로 유의하게 나타났다. 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 위험군을 기준으로 하였을 때, 남성에 비해 여성에서 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 더 높았고 건강 관련 삶의 질 점수가 낮았다. 수면시간이 8시간 이상이거나 6시간 이하인 경우 6-8시간인 경우보다 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 더 높았고 건강 관련 삶의 질 점수가 낮았다. 우울증이 있는 경우 없는 경우보다 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 높았다. 가구소득 수준이 낮을수록, 가구원 수가 감소할수록 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 높아지고 건강 관련 삶의 질 점수가 낮아졌다. 결론: 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증 위험이 단순히 수면장애로만 직결되는 것이 아니라 개인의 주관적 건강과 건강 관련 삶의 질과도 연관성이 있다는 점을 인식할 수 있도록 사회적인 지원 및 교육이 제공되어야 한다. 특히 여성, 낮은 가구소득, 1인 가구원, 우울증이 있는 취약계층을 대상으로 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증 예방 및 관리프로그램을 통해 주관적 건강과 건강 관련 삶의 질을 향상시킬 수 있도록 해야 할 것이다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.511-526
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• 2011

This study aims at surveying how Koreans look upon and prepare for the age of longevity("age of 100 years") drawing near at hand, analyzing factors affecting such a perception and behavior. To this end, a telephone survey was launched for 1200 persons sampled to evenly comprise the young, middle-aged, and elderly groups. Our findings indicate that more Koreans looked upon the upcoming "age of 100 years" as a 'disaster' rather than a 'blessing.' The sense of combined uneasiness over the aged life being further elongated while they are unprepared for it, anxiety over maintaining health and so forth came into play. However, the better a person is prepared by way of health management, savings for retirement, preparation for leisure activities and employment for the later life, the more positively he or she looked upon the "age of 100 years". An analysis by group indicates that women rather than men, the elderly rather than the young, the less educated rather than the highly educated, the low-income bracket rather than the high-income bracket looked upon the "age of 100 years" more negatively. Under such circumstances, it is suggested that the nation's social system tailored to a life expectancy of 80 years should be readjusted, tailored to a 'longevity paradigm' and that to this end social systems should be reoriented toward the direction where 'healthy aging' and 'active aging' are fully supported.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.72-80
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• 1986

The purpose of this study was to investigate the dietary-intake and that of health by mean of questionarie and interview for male and female old persons living in Seoul area. The contents of study included general aspects, physical status and health, nutrient intake, and food intake frequency. The results from the above survey are summarized as follows ; 1. The age group in the range of 60 to 79 years old was 71%, and the average number of family was 4.9. The educational level was 56% of elderly persons were elementary or middle school graduates . 42.8% of elderly persons had an average monthly income of \490,000 to 300,000. 2. The aged average height, weight, and physical index were 164.9cm, 55.8kg and 20.4 in male, 152.7cm, 46.0kg and 20.3 in female which were lower than the Korean average standard. (male; 167.0cm, 61.0kg, female; 156.0cm, 55.0kg) In the degree of health self-consciousness, percentage distribution of poor and very poor was 29% in male, 59% in female. Among the condition of disease, neuralgia was 23.8%, hypertension was 17.2%, diabetes was 5.4%. 3. Average daily calorie intake was $63.9{\sim}70.4%$ for male and $76.4{\sim}83.9%$ for female which were lower than the Recommended Dietary Allowances for Koreans. Protein intake was $42.9{\sim}57.3g$ (which was $72.8{\sim}82.6%$ RDA) for elderly person, the proportion of animal protein to total protein intake were $24.3{\sim}28.2%$($12.9{\sim}16.2g$). Iron, Vitamin $B_1$, $B_2$ Niacin intake exceeded the RDA, but the intake of Calcium, Vitamin C were far less than that of RDA. 4. In the correlations between nutritional intakes and environmental factors and health, economic living situations and educational level as the factors which might influence the condition of nutritional intake was significant(P<0.01). 5. Food intake frequency of meats, fishes, eggs, for average of $1{\sim}2$ days per week were $44.8{\sim}50.5%$, that of milk and milk products for scarecely week were 42.9.% Correlation of food intake frequency was divided three levels-good, fair, poor. Food intake frequency as the factors which might influence the condition of nutritional intake was significant(P<0.01). The results of the survey reveal that many of elderly show evidence of general nutrient intake deficiency, it requires first of all importance of nutrition to improve nutritional level through to promotion of elderly health.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.603-609
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• 2003

This study examined the reproducibility of nutrient intakes estimated by the 24-hour recall method in a prospective cohort study (Longitudinal study of aging and health monitoring of Korean elderly) of middle-aged volunteer subjects (42 males and 49 females) in the Seoul area. The three-day 24-hour recall was administered twice at an interval of approximately 6 months. The first data were collected and a corrective procedure was performed by interviewing of the subjects and a trained dietitian. The second data were collected by mail from the subjects without the performance of any corrective procedure. The mean age of the subjects was 53.5 $\pm$ 9.6 for the males and 52.2 $\pm$ 8.9 for the females. The subjects who had above college education were 95% in the case of the males and 60% in the case of the females. The characteristics of the male subjects in this study were that they were highly educated and held professional jobs and were from the middle or upper class. Comparing the first and second 24-hour recall data, the second data showed relatively lower intakes of all nutrients, except vitamin A, vitamin Bi and cholesterol. There was no difference in the nutrients of the first and the second data with respect to vitamin A, vitamin B$_1$ and cholesterol in the males and calcium, iron, sodium, vitamin A, vitamin B$_1$, vitamin B$_2$ and cholesterol in the females. This data may indicate that the 24 hour retail method without a dietitian's help may result in lower reporting of the subject's intakes. The men had a tendency to remember less than the women. Pearson's correlation coefficients with unadjusted nutrient intakes values were ranged from 0.24 to 0.66. When energy intake was adjusted, there was a slight increase (from 0.26 to 0.71). Intra-class correlation coefficients with nutrient-unadjusted values ranged from 0.22 to 0.66, and the energy-adjusted values were ranged from 0.23 to 0.69. The weighted Kappa statistical values ranged from 0.10 to 0.40. On the average,46.3% of the subjects who were found in the lowest quartile of the nutrient intake levels based on the first 24-hour recall, were in the lowest quartile based on the second 24-hour recall. Therefore, there was a low reproducibility between the first and the second 24-hour recall. We should examine the factors influencing low reproducibility. Also, strategies should be developed to maximize the reliability of the assessment, with regard to portion-size training and telephone validation. (Korean J Community Nutrition 8(4) : 603∼609, 2003)

• 한국주거학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국주거학회 2008년 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.140-143
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• 2008

As the number of family living alone is expected to soar due to a change in socio-demographics like divorce, more middle-aged women returning to work, homes become smaller and so on. In addition to in 2020 these people will be increase so that 85 percent of the Koreans compose elderly living alone who is over 65. This study aims at developing a sharing-typed elderly people-centered rental model which is accessible in the community integration dimension as an alternative and finding out theirconscious, their need about residence. and we need to check about their major requirements on improvement step by step. so that we suggest the desirable way on the existing multi house. The model provides benefits in the social, economical and pragmatic dimensions as the families living alone get together and living with others, Particularly, as a residence model which reduces a psychological loneliness and at the same time enables the elderly to continue to live a life in the community while they live together with other people, this model could be a strategy which supports the "Aging in Place." This study is in progress via small group workshop which debate gradually about special subject with similar group member. So we can find the residence's preference on living environment in various condition and the member can imagine freely on their future living arrangement by giving the various informations which can be proceed in future. The workshop proceed three times. at the first workshop, we're check their living environment and satisfaction level. and second time we give the knowledge about shared-type rental house then discuss about the model. and last time we're listen to the residence's opinion.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.227-256
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• 2016

본 연구는 노인 재가서비스의 확대가 노인을 돌보는 가족 구성원의 생활시간에 미친 효과를 분석하였다. 고령화와 가족구조의 변화 등으로 노인에 대한 가족의 돌봄부담이 가중되면서 공적 노인돌봄서비스를 확대해야 한다는 사회적 공감대가 형성되었고, 2000년대 이후부터 관련 제도가 본격화되었다. 본 연구에서는 가족의 노인돌봄 부담을 구성원이 직접 노인을 돌보는 부분과 이로 인해 노동이나 가사, 여가 등의 다른 주요 생활에 제약을 받는 부분으로 구분하고, 노인 재가서비스의 확대로 이러한 부담이 감소하였는지를 확인하였다. 분석자료는 통계청의 생활시간자료를 이용하였으며, 제도 확대의 효과는 건강이 취약한 노인을 돌보는 중하위 소득수준의 가구를 처치집단으로 삼아서 비교적 건강한 노인을 돌보는 가구 및 고소득 가구와의 비교를 통해 제도 효과를 추정하는 삼중차이(DDD) 방법을 통해 확인하였다. 분석결과, 노인 재가서비스의 확대는 노인을 돌보는 가족 구성원의 노인돌봄 시간을 감소시켰다. 이는 제도 확대의 목적과 부합하는 결과이지만, 돌봄 시간의 감소 정도가 크지 않았고, 여성 가구원에게만 그러한 효과가 관측되었다는 점에서 한계도 드러났다. 또한 노인돌봄 시간이 감소한 여성 가구원의 경우에도, 가사, 노동, 여가, 비노인돌봄 및 개인유지 등의 다른 생활시간 범주에서는 유의미한 변화를 보이지 않았다. 가족의 노인돌봄 부담을 실질적으로 줄이기 위해서는 공적돌봄의 대체효과를 높이기 위한 노력이 더 필요해 보인다.