• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.99-109
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify levels of quality of health-related life (EQ-5D) and its related factors among vulnerable elders receiving home visiting health care services in some rural areas. Methods: The subjects of this study were vulnerable elders aged 65 or higher receiving visiting health care benefits by a public health center in a county. Results: Levels of health-related EQ-5D were high when the subjects were males, their ADL and IADL were high. The EQ-5D of the vulnerable elders and social supports had a positive correlation, while their IADL and depression had a negative correlation with the EQ-5D. We can see that the EQ-5D related factors are variables that have significance influence on gender, subjective health status, BMI, IADL, depression levels, and social support. Conclusion: To improve the EQ-5D of the vulnerable elderly, it needs maintenance of independent IADL levels, social supporting systems using small meeting of the elderly in community. It is necessary to maintain independent IADL levels, enhance social supporting systems including small group gatherings for elders living alone by means of places like community halls, and develop specific intervention programs for the prevention and management of depressive elders.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2017

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare between performance and requirements of visiting nursing care in long-term care insurance using the OMAHA system. Methods: The subjects were 72 nurses who had worked in a visiting nursing care center in long-term care insurance. Data were collected from December 5, 2016 to January 31, 2017 using self-recorded questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired t-tests. Results: Four dimensions of the OMAHA system showed statistically significant differences between performance and requirements of visiting nursing care in long-term care insurance. The requirements of visiting nursing care were higher than was performance on all 40 items of the OMAHA system. The greatest difference was in environmental domain and then the psychosocial domain. Conclusion: Based on the results, we found that the environmental and psychosocial domains were the largest gap areas. Therefore, with the reality of elderly people living alone and the increase in elderly couples, active intervention connected with the community is needed in residential areas. Further, we suggest that the OMAHA system can be utilized as an integrated conceptual framework for developing and enhancing visiting nursing care in long-term care insurance.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.191-200
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of participation in leisure activities on the quality of life by comparing gender and household type. Methods: Data were drawn from the 2017 Korean Elderly Survey and the participants were 7,406 people who are 65 years and above. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS (version 18.0) statistical package. Results: The result of this study revealed that participation in leisure activities has a significant effect on the quality of life of In the case of older adults who are men and live with couple, voluntary activities have a significant effect on their quality of life, while for elderly women living alone, arts & cultural activities have a significant effect on their quality of life. Conclusions: Based on these results, we suggested some implications for supporting healthy leisure activities and improving the level of quality of life among aged people.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.73-89
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• 2019

This study explores the social phenomenon of the universalization of one-person households through a literature analysis and text mining in order to explore a future direction for Home Economics Education(HEE) development in the one-person household era. From 2010 to 2018, texts from newspaper articles and book content of one-person households were analyzed through R program. The results of the study are as follows. In order to develop students' competency to live a happy life in the one-person household era, it is necessary to: (1) expand the preemptive and collaborative research of HEE, (2) develop and operate a curriculum to raise the living competency to live alone, (3) expand opportunities for secondary school students as well as off-campus youth, middle-aged, and elderly students, and (4) develop various HEE's elective curriculum focusing on the ability to live as one-person household. Also, (5) in order to overcome the psychological and social poverty and isolation of one-person households, HEE should strengthen the learner's ability to form relationships through self-esteem, care of others, community life, communication and conflict resolution education. In conclusion, HEE's independent living competency, relationship formation competency, and practical problem solving competency are all necessary competencies to live in one-person households. In this study, it is meaningful to suggest a future direction for HEE and to use new research methods such as word cloud techniques in the absence of HEE's previous research in relation to the increase of one-person households.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.303-315
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• 2008

- Abstract - Objectives: The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of depression and identify its related factors among an urban elderly. Methods: The data for this study were obtained from 333 men and 514 women, aged 65-79 years who participated in '2007 community health survey' in Donggu, Gwangju metropolitan city. Their depressive symptoms were measured by Korean version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). Results: The mean CES-D score (mean±S.D) for all subjects was 7.68±0.31. The mean CES-D score was significantly greater in the women (9.09±0.43) than in the men (5.51±0.39) (p<0.001). The prevalence rates of possible depression (CES-D score ≥16), probable depression (CES-D score≥21), and definite depression (CES-D score≥25) were 8.1%, 5.4%, and 3.9% in men, respectively. The prevalence rates of possible depression, probable depression, and definite depression were 19.5%, 11.1%, and 7.2% in women, respectively. Existence of spouse (no/yes), education level (no/high school or higher), health security system (medical aid/national health insurance), self-reported health status (poor/good), vascular risk factors (present/absent) proved to be statistically significant related factors of depression. Conclusions: This study suggests that a systematic effort and attention to support for elderly people living alone, low educational level, medical aid, poor self-reported health status and vascular risk factors should be promoted to reduce the incidence of depression.

• Journal of Community Nutrition
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2002

This study was designed to assess diet and health-related factors of older adults in Korea. Subjects females were 2,660 adults aged 50 and over living in Korea. Males were 847 persons and were 1813 persons. The mean weight and height for males and females were 63.8 $\pm$ 0.3kg / 164.0 $\pm$ 0.2cm and 57.0 $\pm$ 0.2kg /150.6 $\pm$ 0.1cm respectively. BMI (body mass index), body fat, and percent fat were significantly greater in females than in males. The muscle mass and body water were significantly greater in males than in females. Twenty-one percent of total subjects lived alone and 26% with spouse only. Most of the subject's self-reported income was in middle level (65%) or low level (24%). Proportion of subjects who answered 'very poor' or 'poor' on perceived health status was higher in older group. The 50-64 years old group was facing more stress than 65yr and over group. Among male subjects,38.4% were current-smokers and 22.0% were ex-smokers. But only 6.5% of female subjects were current-smokers. Males turned out to have better dietary habits-meal frequency per day, mealtime regularity, regular meal size and balanced eating-than females (p < 0.001). This study revealed that the diet and health-related factors affect nutritional status and chronic diseases of the elderly. For better management and evaluation of health status of the elderly, more effective nutritional assessment tools should be developed.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.305-318
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• 2022

본 연구는 4차 혁명기술의 핵심인 AI 기술을 활용한 대화형 AI 토이 로봇의 독거노인 돌봄에 대한 효과성에 주목하고, 보다 인간 중심적인 돌봄으로의 개인화, 맞춤화에 기여할 수 있도록 R&D를 통한 '아가야'라는 AI 토이 로봇을 개발하였다. R&D 작업은 활용 중인 AI 스피커와 AI 대화 인형의 기능을 고찰, 현재 AI 로봇을 사용 중인 총 6명의 독거노인과의 인터뷰, 독거노인의 AI 대화 로봇 사용 현황과 효과성, 한계성, 개선점 등을 파악한 후 진행되었다. 첫째, P-TTS 기술을 적용하여 듣고 싶은 사람의 음성을 자율적으로 선택하여 들음으로써 심리적 친밀감을 강화하고 둘째, 추억저장 및 소환기능으로 자신만의 심적 치유를 가능케 하며 셋째, 눈, 코, 입, 귀, 손의 5감의 다양한 역할을 추가하였고 넷째, 따뜻한 체온 유지, 아로마, 살균 및 미세먼지 제거부, 편리한 충전방식 등의 기술을 개발하였다. 이러한 기술들은 친밀감, 개인화 지향을 통한 독거노인의 대화형 로봇에 대한 사용을 확대하고, 돌봄의 수혜자라는 수동적인 프레임에서 벗어나 스스로 남은 노후를 생산적이고 독립적으로 기획할 수 있는 긍정적 이미지의 독거 노인상을 구축하는데 기여한다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2017년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.1145-1147
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• 2017

사회적 소외계층이 증가함에 따라 무연고 사망자가 늘어나는 사례가 늘고 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 자체 제작한 웨어러블 디바이스를 활용하여 무연고 소외계층의 건강을 관찰 및 응급상황을 대처하고 고독사를 방지하는 서비스를 제안한다. 제안한 웨어러블 디바이스는 사용자가 착용 시 심장 박동, 온도, 습도의 생명 정보를 측정 및 저장하고, 저장된 데이터와 움직임을 감지할 PIR 센서의 움직임 데이터 값을 비교하여 응급 상황을 보여준다. 이를 위해서 사용자 용 웨어러블 디바이스, DB 관리서버 및 웹 페이지를 구축하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2019년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.548-551
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• 2019

위급상황 시 SOS 호출을 할 수 있는 스마트 매트로써 압력센서와 온도센서 등을 이용하여 독거노인의 움직임, 온도를 측정해 움직임이 오랫동안 변화가 없거나 온도가 지정해 놓은 범위에 벗어나면 위급상황으로 판단하여 SOS 문자 전송 Application을 통해 119나 직계가족에게 자동적으로 연락을 하여 독거노인의 고독사를 방지한다. 또한 자신이 위급상황임을 느꼈을 때에 매트를 반복적으로 두들김으로써 응급상황을 알려 즉시 위험을 대처한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2023년도 제68차 하계학술대회논문집 31권2호
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• pp.67-68
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• 2023

본 논문에서 제안한 Multi Agent Multi Action은 기존의 대화형 시스템 방식인 Single Agent Single Action 구조에 비해 확장성을 갖춘 대화 시스템을 구현하는 방식이다. 시스템을 여러 에이전트로 분할하고, 각 에이전트가 특정 액션에 대한 처리를 담당함으로써 보다 유연하고 효율적인 대화형 시스템을 구현할 수 있으며, 다양한 작업에 특화된 에이전트를 그룹화함으로써 작업의 효율성을 극대화하고, 사용자 경험을 향상 시킬 수 있다.