• 산업과 과학
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2022

본 연구는 농촌과 도시에 거주하는 노인 여성들의 체력과 낙상효능감에 대해 분석하여 지역에 따른 노인들의 건강요인들을 분석하기 위함이다. 본 연구 대상자는 주 2회 이상 지역 마을회관에서 건강체조와 치어리딩를 하는 농촌 및 도시에 거주하는 노인 여성 98명(REG; n=46, 77.53±6.37 yrs, 151.81±5.26 cm, 60.00±9.42 kg, UEG; n=53, 73.57±2.70 yrs, 154.07±3.52 cm, 57.37±2.06 kg)으로 진행되었다. 체력은 근지구력, 심폐지구력, 유연성을 측정하였으며, 낙상효능감은 Tinetti 등이 개발한 10개 항목의 Fall Efficacy Scale을 사용하였다. 도시 노인들이 유연성과 낙상효능감에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다(p<.01, p<.05). 근지구력과 심페지구력에서는 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았다(p>.05). 추후 지역의 노인들의 건강요인의 불균형을 개선하기 위한 연구가 지속적으로 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2022

최근에 신중년이라 불리는 1955년에서 1974년 사이에 태어난 베이비붐 세대는 거대 인구 집단을 형성하며 이전의 전통적 노인 세대와는 다른 특성을 보이고 있다. 전체 국가 인구의 33%를 차지하는 이들의 은퇴가 본격화되면서 신세대 노인인구집단의 등장과 이에 따른 정책변화가 요구되고 있다. 오팔세대라고 불리기도 하는 신중년층은 평균수명의 증가로 늘어난 노년기를 생산적이고 자율적으로 보내고 싶어 하며 노후에 해외여행을 즐기는 등 어느 정도 경제적 능력도 지니고 있지만, 다른 한편 여가·취미활동, 대인관계 등 활동적 노년에 대한 준비가 미흡해서 신세대로서의 신중년층을 위한 정책적 관심이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 베이비붐 세대를 중심으로 오팔세대의 정의, 그들의 소비생활을 비롯한 태도, 사회활동, 여가활동, 건강에 대한 노력 등의 라이프스타일에 대해 알아보고, 오팔세대에 맞는 고용창출, 사회적 재교육, 지역의료시설 구축, 여가문화 생활을 위한 사회적 배려 등 노후준비에 대해 실천적 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.540-548
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop online aging and health management education for undergraduate students and to evaluate its effects analyzing the differences in knowledge and attitude toward aging and the elderly. Method: An Online aging and health management education program was established through analysis, planning, content framing and production, program application, and evaluation stages. The study sample consisted of 98 undergraduate students in one university in D city. The instruments used were FAQ I for knowledge of aging and a 20 item semantic differential scale for attitude toward aging and the elderly Results: The results of this study were as follows. First, undergraduate students' knowledge level was low and attitudes were negative at the baseline. Second, after the class, knowledge scores improved significantly from 14.44 to 20.12. In addition, the attitudes toward elderly and aging changed from negative to a more positive way showing a 23.57 point difference. Conclusion: This study shows that the online aging and health management education program was an effective educational method to improve knowledge and attitude of aging for the young generation such as college students.

• 한국의사학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2012

A growing number of people shows deep interests in healthcare and treatments for the elderly with increasing their population. Contrary to general adults, old people have their own physiological and pathological characteristics. Therefore, treatments for the elderly should be different form those for others in younger generation. Alimentotherapy, which means the treatment or prevention by means of food, is one of the best way to deal with geriatrics that are chronic, multiple. Korea has its tradition and plenty of information in this field. Even in the early ChoSun Dynasty, when people suffered from lack of proper medical care, physicians used dietary prescriptions as active treatments, Therefore, we can find lots of cases in "Hyangyak-jibseogbang" and "Euibangyoochui" which are medical books published at that time. After that, a specialized alimentotherapy book, "Sikryochanyo" was written based on that kind of total medical volumes. With development of society, economy. and medical science, alimentotherapy has grown remarkably. Unlike in the early Chosun Dynasty, it was used positively for promoting general health condition and practiced as supportive method for medication in the late Chosun Dynasty. Considering the characteristics of the elderly, alimentotherapy is the most effective way to keep them healthy and can also used with medication.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.303-314
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• 1996

The purpose of this study is to investigate the satisfaction with sharing a bedroom among grandparent(s) and grandchildren, and the differences in the housing norms and satisfactions among the three generations of the extended families in Cheong-Ju city. Each three generations of the 50 extended families was interviewed with the questionnaire designed for each generation. The respondent family had at lest one child aged from 10 to 14 years old. The results showed that 40.0% of the elderly parents and 76.0% of the grandchildren shared a bedroom with someone beside a spouse, while about 90.0% of married couples had their own bedrooms. However, sharing a bedroom did not reduce the housing satisfaction of the grandparent(s) and the grandchild. The living arrangement of coresidence was mostly preferred by the grandparents, followed by the parents. The younger generations reported the more alternatives in living arrangement for the elderly. The number of bedrooms was the most important factor to be considered with coresidence of three generations but the most inadequate characteristics of the current housing to coreside. There were some differences in elderly housing norms and coresidence housing satisfactions among the three generations. The grandparents were most satisfied with coresidence living arragement, followed by the grandchildren and the daughters-in-law.

• Advances in Traditional Medicine
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.137-156
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• 2004

Altruistic virtuous caring, possibly originated from religion and/or spirituality, is indispensable for holistic health through channeling vital energy with diet, exercise and meditation. This is a participant-observed medical anthropological research of a first generation Korean elderly immigrant health professional woman living in a four generational family. She had hypertension and was concerned about possible attack of stroke. Multi-religious, spiritual, and cosmological vital energy based on holistic Nature-oriented health beliefs and practices influenced by psychosocial, cultural and economic background, education, self- discipline and self-cultivation of individual, and group or family may create health. Self-care beliefs based on confidence in self-control of one's life style for oneself and others influence individual and group health practice. The holistic alternative health beliefs and practices were proved to be efficacious and beneficial by her self-evaluation, evaluation of significant others, biomedical professionals, and laboratory tests. That may have potential application for global health.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.123-136
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to suggest a future senior housing plan by examining the preference of aged women in urban areas. The subjects were 465 elderly women in Seoul and statistics employed for the analysis were frequencies, means, Chi-square test, multiple regression analysis. Results were as follows : The respondents prefered senior housing located in suburbs. The most important locational factors were accessibility to garden and the aged women wanted living 20 minutes apart by walking or driving from their children's house. There was a tendency of moving toward three-generation house sharing kitchen and enterence with their children or assisted living which cared by warden as they get senile -living alone, poor income and poor health condition-.

• 기독교교육논총
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• 제75권
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• pp.83-102
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• 2023

연구 목적 : 본 연구는 고령화로 인한 사회적 문제 해소를 위한 한 방안으로 노인에 관한 이해가 보다 긍정적으로 바뀌어야 함을 강조하며, 그 방안 중 하나로써 노인 인권에 대한 이해와 교육을 제안하는 데 목적을 두었다. 연구 내용 및 방법 : 먼저, 오늘날 노인 인권에 관한 관심이 필요함을 강조하면서, 노년에 발생하는 노인학대 문제에 대해 살펴보았다. 그리고 노인학대가 발생하는 원인들 가운데 하나가 노인의 인권에 대한 이해의 부재로 인해 발생하였음을 지적하였다. 다음으로 '노인 인권이란 무엇인가'에 대해 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 UNESCO에서 말하는 노인 인권에 대한 이해부터 한국의 노인 인권에 대한 정책까지 설명하였다. 이를 근거로 노인인권교육의 필요성을 주장하였다. 노인 인권이 향상되기 위해서는 인식의 전환이 큰 영향을 주기 때문이다. 특히 교회도 고령화 현상을 피할 수 없으며, 그로 인해 교회 내 노인 성도의 분포도가 높다는 사실을 전제로 하여, 교회도 노인 인권에 대해 관심을 가져야 한다고 주장하였다. 그리고 기독교적 관점에서 노인인권교육을 제안해야 함을 강조하였다. 결론 및 제언 : 결론적으로 본 연구는 노인 인권의 중요성을 강조하면서, 기독교적 노인 인권을 세 가지 측면에서 제안하였다. 첫째, 노인을 대상으로 한 자기 존엄성 교육이다. 둘째, 타 세대의 노인에 대한 존경과 권리를 인정하는 방법으로써 노인의 인생을 배우고 공감하는 교육이다. 셋째, 노인 세대와 타 세대 간의 갈등을 완화와 조화를 통한 권리 존중을 위해 상호존중교육이다. 그러나 아쉽게도 본 연구는 이론적인 제안에 주안점을 둔 관계로 방법론적인 접근 교육 등은 다루지 못한 점에서 한계가 있다. 따라서 향후 이러한 점을 보완하여 기독교 인권교육에 관한 실천적인 교육 프로그램이 연구되는 등 노인 인권 향상을 위한 구체적인 대안 마련에 도움이 되는 후속 연구들이 지속적으로 이루어지길 바란다.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.67-83
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• 2012

Baby boomers are often defined by their support of their parents and their devotion to their children's educational success by providing financial and emotional aids. Now, 7.12 million baby boomers in South Korea are retiring, or are about to retire, without any retirement plans. Similar to financial stability, health, and leisure life, social capital is another important element in the quality life after retirement. This is because social capital can function as a potential resource network. Social capital is a source that provides money, information, goods, services, emotional aids, social relational opportunities etc. In the past, family and community provided social capital for the aged. However, the baby boomer generation cannot expect the same. The baby boomers have the task of creating new social capital that can assure their quality of life. Therefore, this study examines cohort characteristics of the baby boomer generation and, based on the examination, seeks an alternative for social capital. The results are as follows: First, social capital from the local community can be an alternative source of caring for the baby boomers in old age. Second, among the social capital of the local community, elderly care supported by a family friendly community is proposed. In addition, baby boomers must become the primary social capital that contributes to a mature civil society rather than a beneficiary of welfare for the aged.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2011

The aim of this study was to achieve an understanding of the experiences of divided families in South Korea. The study adopted a qualitative method based on the interpretive science paradigm The participants were 14 elderly people who came from North Korea around 1950 and identified as belonging to the first generation of divided families. In-depth individual interviews were carried out, focusing on what divided families experienced after leaving their hometown, how these experiences affected their meaning-making about their homecoming, and how the divided community has changed. The result of theme analysis indicated that the first generation of divided families identified themselves as "people who lost their hometown." their hometown implied multiple losses, including their family members, socioeconomic status, and psychological support systems. The participants explained the process of their settlement and adaptation to South Korea based on the cohesion of the divided family community. However, they anticipated that the divided family community would fade away because of the aging of the first generation, the indifference of the second generation, and the frustration that existed about the reunion of the divided family members. The participants showed a realistic view on returning to their hometown after the reunification of North Korea and South Korea.