• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2014

The bra is one of the most essential pieces of women's underwear which gives support for the breasts and holds them in position to make better outer appearance of upper body. Despite being worn by most women of all ages, brassiere manufacturers often use brassiere sizes and shapes that are close to the body measurements of women in their 20s, which raises questions whether the bras are suitable for older women's physique. Also, many lingerie markets tend to center on designs and tastes of younger women, leaving those of older women are largely ignored in the manufacturing process despite the fact that their purchasing power and market shares are expected to grow in conjunction with the aging of the global population. Against this backdrop, this study attempts to provide information about bra preferences and breast perceptions of the middle-aged and older US women over the age of 40 years to help manufacturers better understand the bra purchasing priorities and bra elements of older women and prompt them to design bras with a high level of fit and comfort that are appreciated by the population groups as a means to ultimately acquire competitive edge in the fast growing aging market. An email survey and interviews were conducted with 301 US women who live in New York City. The findings of this study suggest that there are internal and external factors such as changes in body and breast shapes with age influence the level of fitness and effectiveness of bra components, and thus the responses to the questions on bra preferences and breast perceptions varied between the researched age groups.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.394-417
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• 2008

한국 사회의 고령화는 세계에서 유례를 찾기힘든 속도로 빠르게 진행되고 있다. 이러한 인구학적 변화는 공간적 변화가 수반되는 사회경제적, 문화적 변화를 가져온다. 이 연구의 목적은 수도권을 대상으로 노인 주거 의료 서비스와 노인 생활의 공간적 특성에 대해 고찰하는 것이다. 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 수도권 노인 주거 의료 서비스의 입지와 그 이용자의 생활은 노인의 이동성뿐만 아니라 서울로부터의 거리, 거주환경 등의 영향도 받는 것으로 보인다. 노인의 일상생활에 영향을 미치는 것은 일차적으로 노인 주거 의료 서비스의 위치와 노인의 이동성이고, 이차적으로는 가족 거주지의 위치이다. 따라서 주거 의료 서비스의 위치가 대도시로부터 멀리 떨어지는 것은 바람직하지 않다.

• 교육시설 논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to provide a fundamental data and establish policies for the utilization of closed schools in Korea. The closed schools have been increased in Korea because not only the birth rate, and the number of students have been decreased, but also a greate number of people have moved to big cities or the elderly population is increasing. In this context, this research explores the current circumstance of Japan where experienced the similar phenomenon before Korea had. The results of this study are summarized as follows: The reason for the closed schools in Japan is a decrease in population due to the urbanization and reducing students themselves by aging. The recycling proportion of the closed schools is only approximately 62% in Japan. It means that fewer facilities have been recycled due to the transfer of the managemental departments and the lack of budgets for purchasing the closed schools. As the number of children decreases, but elderly people increases as the same time, it is necessary to positively examine the transition of the closed schools to new facilities for the elderly people. Even though the number of children had been declined, and it is recently turning back to an increasing of the residential children in 23 districts of Tokyo, there are still existing many closed schools. This phenomenon is caused by the decrease of the children and residential areas due to the aging and urbanization. For these reasons, there are many diverse demands for the practical and valuable recycling of the closed schools. However, it seems that there are few cases of successful disposal or transfer of management to other suitable ministry. Therefore, it is necessary for the closed schools to be remodeled the facilities required by current residents.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.285-293
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• 2022

Background: This study was conducted to analyze the effects of low skeletal muscle mass index (SMI) and obesity on aging-related osteoarthritis (OA) in the Korean population. Methods: A total of 16,601 participants who underwent a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and 3,976 subjects with knee X-rays according to the modified Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) system were enrolled. Knees of ≥KL grade 2 were classified as radiologic OA. The severity of joint space narrowing (JSN) was classified by X-rays as normal, mild-to-moderate, and severe JSN in radiologic OA. The subjects were grouped as normal SMI (SMI of ≥-1 standard deviation [SD] of the mean), low SMI class I (SMI of ≥-2 SDs and <-1 SD), and low SMI class II (SMI of <-2 SDs). Obesity was defined as a body mass index (BMI) of ≥27.5 kg/m². Results: The modified KL grade and JSN severity were negatively correlated with the SMI and positively correlated with BMI and age. The SMI was negatively correlated with age. JSN severity was significantly associated with a low SMI class compared to a normal SMI, which was more prominent in low SMI class II than class I. Obesity was significantly associated with more severe JSN, only for obesity with a low SMI class. Furthermore, patients with a low SMI class, regardless of obesity, were prone to having more severe JSN. Conclusion: This study suggested that a low SMI class was associated with aging and that an age-related low SMI was more critically related to the severity of JSN in OA.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.242-244
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• 2022

최근 인구의 고령화와 함께 1인 가구가 늘어나고 있으며 독거노인의 증가는 인구의 고령화에 따라 빠르게 증가하고 있다. 따라서 독거노인의 고독사는 사회적으로 많은 이슈가 되고 있다. 고독사는 사망 이후 며칠이 지난 이후 시신이 발견되는 경우가 많다. 특히 독거노인의 고독사는 장례와 유품 정리 및 처리할 사람조차 없으므로 죽어서까지도 외로운 죽음이라는 문제 인식이 사회적으로 더욱 심각하게 받아들여지고 있다. 시신이 발견되는 경우는 보통 며칠이 지난 이후이기 때문에 시신의 부패가 심한 경우가 많다. 따라서 본 논문은 독거노인의 고독사 예방 및 대응을 위해 온습도 센서와 인체감지 센서를 이용해서 실내 모니터링 시스템을 제안하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.81-91
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• 2019

최근 우리나라는 급격한 고령화와, 급격한 산업화로 인한 가족의 역할 약화로 고령자 부양 자체의 문제나 부양의 질적 하락과 같은 다양한 문제를 겪고 있다. 이 중 부양의 질적 측면에서 고령자의 정서 지지에 관한 문제가 주요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 이런 정서적 지지에 관한 문제는 다양한 물적 인적 지원을 통해 해결하는 것이 가장 좋은 해결책일 것이다. 그러나, 여러 가지 한계로 인해 자원의 효율적 이용 차원의 접근이 시도되고 있으며 그중 디지털 기술의 융합을 통한 지원 노력에 주목할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 고령화 현상으로 인한 고령자 수발 인력난의 문제와 수발 서비스의 질적 하락 문제 중 정서 측면의 문제에 주목하고, 디지털 기술의 융합을 통해 정서 측면을 지원하기 위해 디지털 기술이 어떠한 형태로 접목되었는지 사례를 분석하였다. 그중 스마트 스피커를 통한 고령자 지원의 가능성을 확인하고 스마트 스피커를 통한 정서적 지원을 제안하였다. 또한 중년 고령자를 대상으로 스마트 스피커의 사용성 평가와 함께 인뎁스 인터뷰를 진행함으로써 중년 고령자의 정서 지지를 위한 스마트 스피커 대화체계 가이드라인을 제안하였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 고령자의 정서 지지를 위한 스마트 스피커 개발 시 대화체계 디자인을 위한 기초자료가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대 된다.

• 교육녹색환경연구
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.53-65
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• 2007

Our society is changing into the society of knowledge and information since the advent of 21st century. This may require that schooling need to have a new paradigm. Korea has already entered into the aging society with the help of various population control policies such as birth control from 1960s, and is expecting to go into the so called ultra- aging society. Elementary and middle schools have been facing the rapid decrease in the number of students since the mid-1980s, which high schools are now confronting with. The present study investigates how to effectively utilize extra classrooms at schools. The present study offers eight basic directions that may help establish the utilization planning of extra classrooms. One direction is offering an appropriate space utilization environment, another is to present a plan for having special classrooms. Others are having multi-purpose classrooms, management on the unified rooms for library and audio-visual teaching, securing facilities rooms for the school staff. And others are the planning of the diversion of living space for improving sanitation and the provision of meals, the necessity of the extension or rebuilding of school buildings for other uses according to school development schemes, the utilization planning for community residents to which each school belong.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.50-59
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• 2009

Korea reached an aging society in 2000, and it is progressed quickly now. Government forecasts that the number of aged people over 65 years old will increase from 7.2%(2000) to above 14.3% among total population in 2018. Workers over fifty years old are increasing in construction field every year. These aged workers are exposed to various construction accidents, and also their accident rate is very high because of physical and psychological changes by aging. Specially, a disaster of aged workers more than 50 years old is fronted at the serious situation in the construction industry which has variable working environment. Thus, the purpose of this study is to suggest the precaution by analysing disaster characteristics of aged construction workers. Also, this study aims to present a basic counter-plan according to important safety management list which is abstracted from the work, aged construction workers' accident rate is high.

• 국제물리치료학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1591-1595
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• 2018

The number of healthy older adults is rapidly increasing recently owing to the increase of the elderly population. Therefore, programs for improving the cognitive functions of these healthy seniors are actively being expanded. This study aimed to prevent the decline of cognitive function due to aging by applying a program enhancing cognitive functions to healthy older adults. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of Korean computer-based cognitive rehabilitation program (CoTras), which is commonly used in cognitive therapy for the aging, on the memory of the elderly. The subjects had scored at least 24 points in MMSE-K. CoTras was applied once a week (30 minutes) for one month. Electronic pegboard programs were used as an evaluation tool: order memory (difficulty=low) and location memory (difficulty=medium). The order and location memories were compared before and after the intervention. The Wilcoxon signed rank-sum test was used for the study at the significance level of ${\alpha}=.05$. The results showed that CoTras significantly improved order memory and location memory. Therefore, CoTras can be applied to the healthy elderly for improving that memory improvement training has a positive impact on healthy older adults result in the development of memory enhancement programs can be expanded in the future.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.421-437
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• 2020

본 논문은 최근에 널리 사용되고 있는 R 프로그램으로 출산율, 사망률, 국제이동률을 예측하고 이들 결과를 Leslie 행렬에 대입해 인구추계 산출하는 방법을 소개한다. 특히 Kaneko (2003)가 제안한 출산율의 일반화로그감마모형, Li 등 (2013)의 사망률 LC-ER 모형, Ramsay와 Silverman (2005)가 제안한 국제이동률의 함수적데이터모형을 시현할 수 있도록 하였다. 최근 R로 구현된 대표적인 인구추계 패키지로 demography, bayesPop가 소개되고 있으나, 이는 Human Mortality Database (HMD), Human Fertility Database (HFD)에 업로드된 자료에 한에서만 분석이 가능하고 기타 데이터를 적용하기 위해서는 자료 변경과 수정이 요구된다. 특히 우리나라의 경우 HMD에 단기 간의 자료로만 제공되어 있어 이 패키기를 적용하기에는 한계점이 있다. 이에 본 논문은 이런 실정과 한국의 저출산, 고령화, 내국인, 외국인 국제이동률 상이패턴을 반영할 수 있는 R 프로그램을 소개하고, 2117년까지의 인구추계를 도출하였다.