• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.3-20
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was diagnosed to grasp the needs for the elderly-elderly care activity in rural areas. The research was conducted in questions and case studies in 7 farming villages. The major findings of this study as follows: First, the senior citizens in rural areas were not in good health, and the illnesses were revealed to be arthritis, high blood pressure, and diabetes. At the occurrence of an illness, they complained about the discomfort in doing daily life routines and expected eir spouses or offsprings to te care of them. Elders in the rural community responded that they had difficulty and financial problems in family maintenance. Leisure activities included watching TV, playing card/board games, or spending time without any specific activities. Second, recipients of elderly-elderly care expected to receive services from a woman in her 50s $1{\sim}2$ hours, once to twice a week. Third, the service providers wanted to be elderly-elderly care takers, hoping to work once a week for $2{\sim}3$ hours. They wanted the education for the elderly-elderly care to be once a week for 3 hours, with understanding the elderly, consultation, preventing senile dementia, and health as the contents.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2008

Objectives: The study was to examine major factors that affect suicidal ideation of elderly in urban areas. Methods: The subjects were 302 elders who voluntarily participated in the study. The instruments for this study were scale for suicidal ideation(19 items), family concord (20 items), CED-depression(20 items) and family inventor of life events and changes(FILE, 22 items). Frequency, percentage, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan test, Pearson' correlation coefficient, stepwise multiple regression with SPSS program were used to analyze the data. Results: The average score of suicidal ideation was 14.88. Suicidal ideation was positively related to depression and stress, but negatively related to family concord, depression, family concord, stress and health status accounted for 86.1% of the variance in suicidal ideation. These results suggest that family concord, depression and stress can be potential risk factors for suicide of elderly. Conclusions: These findings may give useful information for developing suicidal prevention program on old age.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.724-735
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of the family caregivers using a nursing home for their elderly family members. Method: Participants for this study were 1 man and 9 women caregivers. Data was collected through in-depth interviews from October, 2005 to April, 2006 and analyzed using Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory methodology. Results: "Finding a way to live together" emerged as a core category and it reflected expanding consciousness allowing them to see each other in a more positive view. The basic social process of "finding a way to live together" includes 3 phases: 1) recognizing the problems, 2) finding solutions to the problems, and 3) accepting the changes in their surrounding. Lack of privacy, family troubles, extreme distress, and unavailable caregivers are reflected in the process of recognizing the problems. The process of finding solutions was making a decision, obtaining family agreement, choosing the best nursing home, and enduring the financial burden. Possible outcomes of the last phase include recovering peace of mind and continuing conflict. Conclusion: Findings from this study offer suggestions for developing a strategy to help not only the elderly but also the family caregivers.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.103-114
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• 2019

Purpose: This research was conducted to identify the effects of providing support programs to families of elderly with dementia on family empowerment and attitudes toward dementia. Methods: A nonequivalent control group pre- and post-test design was used. Participants were 49 family caregivers, experimental (24) and control (25), recruited from families through a dementia support center in Y district. This program implemented Haearim, a support program for family caregivers of demented elders developed by the National Institute of Dementia in 2016. Outcome measures were empowerment and attitudes toward to dementia. Data were analyzed with a ${\chi}^2-test$, independent t-test, Fisher's exact probability test, paired t-test, and repeated measures ANOVA with SPSS/PC version 20.0. Results: Family empowerment (F=6.84, p=.002) and family caregivers' attitudes (F=16.48, p<.001) toward dementia in the experimental group improved significantly more than that of the control group after intervention. Conclusion: Results indicate that support programs for families of elderly with dementia are effective in positively changing empowerment and attitudes toward dementia among family caregivers.

• 한국노년학
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.723-739
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• 2019

본 연구는 개인주의화, 만혼현상, 이혼율 증대 등이 복합적으로 작용하여 가족구조와 기능이 빠른 속도로 변화되는 추세에 고령화가 심화되고 있는 현실 속에서 우리나라 청소년들의 가족친밀감이 노인부양의식의 영향관계에서 노인인식과 치매에 대한 태도의 매개효과를 검증하는 것이다. 이러한 연구목적을 수행하기 위하여 광주광역시 소재 초·중·고등학교 학생을 대상으로 자기기입식 설문지를 통해 자료를 수집하였다. 통계분석을 위해서는 SPSS 20.0과 AMOS 18.0프로그램을 이용하였고, 빈도, 백분율, 기술통계, 상관관계, 요인분석, 구조모형검증, Sobel-Test를 실시하였다. 본 연구를 통해 나타난 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 가족친밀감, 노인인식, 노인부양의식은 초등학생이 가장 높고, 중학생, 고등학생 순으로 '연령'에서 유의미하게 나타났다(P<.001). 또 종교에서는 종교가 있는 청소년의 가족친밀감이 종교가 없는 청소년 보다 더 높았다(p<.001). 둘째, 가족친밀감은 노인인식과 치매에 대한 태도, 노인부양의식에 직접적으로 영향을 미쳤으며, 노인인식은 치매에 대한 태도에, 치매에 대한 태도는 노인부양의식에 직접적으로 영향을 미쳤다. 셋째, 가족친밀감(부모-자녀)은 노인인식에 7.8%, 가족친밀감과 노인인식이 치매에 대한 태도에 20.2%, 치매에 대한 태도와 가족친밀감이 노인부양의식에 34.1%의 영향력이 있는 것으로 나타났다(p<.001). 넷째, 가족친밀감과 노인부양 의식 간의 노인인식, 치매에 대한 태도의 절대 값이 1.96보다 높게 나와 매개역할을 하는 것으로 검증되었다. 이러한 연구결과는 청소년 초기에 가족친밀감과 노인인식, 치매에 대한 태도의 향상을 위한 교육프로그램의 개발과 청소년들의 치매에 대한 지식이나 태도가 올바른 지식을 전달과 긍정적인 부양의식 해결과 함께 세대 간의 갈등 해소를 통해, 노인의 삶의 질을 향상시키기 위한 노인교육복지에 기여하고자 한다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.31-49
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• 2004

The purposes of the study were to examine the trend of undergraduate students' knowledges and attitudes toward elderly and aging traits, and to present the influence of undergraduate students' attitudes. The subjects were 494 undergraduate students. Statistics used such as frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, t-test, Duncan test, ANOVA and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this study were as follow: 1) Undergraduate students' knowledge level toward the elderly was low, and undergraduate students' attitudes level was middle. 2) There were meaningful differences in attitudes level according to sex, living together with elderly (the present time), living together with elderly (the past time), the presence of grandfather. It also had a significant correlation to the undergraduate students' knowledge. 3) The variables which affected the undergraduate students' attitudes were knowledge, sex, present co-residency with grandparents, past co-residency with grandparents, the presence grandfather, period of co-residency with grandparents that were explained about $24\%$. Among variables, knowledge of elderly was a very important variable on undergraduate students' attitudes.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.405-418
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• 2016

This study was conducted to explore the influences of loss experiences and depression on ego-integraty and transcendence of elderly Koreans and to identify gender differences in the relationships among loss experiences, depression, ego-integrity, and transcendence from 146 men and 194 women aged over 60 years in Busan, Gyeong-Nam, and Gyeong-Buk area. The main results were as follows: elderly men reported more loss experiences and transcendence than elderly women. Next, loss experiences influenced ego-integrity and depression mediated the relationship between loss experiences and ego-integrity. Also, ego-integrity had a direct effect on transcendence. Last, depression of elderly men fully mediated the relationship between loss experiences and transcendence. The relationship between loss experiences and ego-integration was partially mediated by depression for elderly women. These results were discussed in terms of gero-education and elderly welfare.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.13-24
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• 1998

The increasing population of the elderly is a serious problem in our communities, and a large supply of an apartment house are to accelerate rise of elderly population in apartment house massed areas. The living Pattern of the aged is different from other generations. Accordingly, the living arrangements are induces many problems in the housing life of elderly, sometimes it lower in quality of life. The purpose of this study was to search for the actual family life and needs of the elderly in apartment house. And it was to seize discrepancy between three-generation family and elderly living alone. Also by a user of housing for the elderly, it was to search for an acknowledged and an preference degree about that.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.157-169
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• 2003

The Purpose of this study was to explore the degree of caregiving stress in caring for dementia elderly according to objective resources, perceived adequacy resource and locus of control in homemakers. The subjects of this study were 141 married women who had cared for dementia elderly. A questionnaire was used as survey method. The data was analyzed by means of Cronbach $\alpha$, factor analysis, MANOVA, and Scheffe test. The main findings were as follows First, there was significant difference in the degree of caregiving stress in caring for dementia elderly according to objective resources. Second, the degree of caregiving stress in caring for dementia elderly was significantly different according to perceived adequacy resource. Third, the degree of caregiving stress in caring for dementia elderly differed significantly according locus of control.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.105-118
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• 2005

The purposes or this study were to compare and analyze the differences between the elderly in their own home and those in facilities in terms of their self-esteem, death anxiety, depression level and psychological characteristics. The subjects were the 386 elderly over 55 living in home and in facilities, free or paid. They had no physical or cognitive disabilities and were living in Daegu city, Kyungbuk and Kyungnam province. There were significant differences in self-esteem, death anxiety, depression level and the path to depression between the two elderly groups with the elderly in facilities showing negative aspects of psychological characteristics. The problems of caregiving for the elderly should be covered by social welfare.