• 사회복지연구
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.349-375
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• 2009

본 연구는 종묘공원이라는 노인집단문화지역 속 노인들의 상호작용을 살펴봄으로써 그들의 삶을 이해하고 노인복지 실천의 시사점을 찾고자 하는 목적을 지니고 있다. 이를 위해 연구자는 2007년 12월에 연구현장에 진입하여 1년이 넘게 참여관찰을 하였으며 종묘공원 노인들과 그 주변의 이해 당사자들을 대상으로 심층 면접을 실시하여 자료를 수집했다. 자료는 스프래들리(Spradley, 1979)가 제시한 방법에 따라 종묘공원과 그 주변에서 시간을 보내는 노인들의 생활에 대해 영역을 확인 한 후 분류분석과 성분분석을 시행하였다. 이러한 과정을 통해 종묘공원 노인들의 집단 문화를 '잊었거나 혹은 밀어낸 욕망의 발현점', '불시착한 땅에서의 탈출', '죽은 시간 살려내기'라는 문화적 주제를 확인하였다. 노인집단 문화지역의 연구를 통해 노인들의 향 후 복지정책의 방향성을 제언하였다.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.46-55
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• 2024

Objective: This study was conducted to provide basic data for the establishment of effective health policies for the unmet medical experience that may occur among the elderly depending on whether they live in a singleperson household or not. Methodology: This study used data from the 8th National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2019-2020) and excluded cases with missing values in variables for the total number of respondent participants of 15,469. Finally, 2,850 subjects aged 65 or older were selected for final analysis. This study examined the relationship between experiences of unmet medical needs, attempting to confirm the relationship between single-person households and unmet medical needs through subgroup analysis considering gender, age, and household income. Results: According to the results, in the case of single-person households, the odds ratio (OR) for unmet medical needs was significantly higher at 1.60 times (95% CI: 1.16-2.21). Upon conducting subgroup analyses for gender, age, and household income quintiles, the OR was significantly higher at 2.24 times (95% CI: 1.14-4.41) for males and 1.48 times (95% CI: 1.02-2.14) for females, statistically significant in both cases. For individuals aged 65-69, the OR was significantly higher at 1.90 times (95% CI: 1.04-3.47), but for those aged 70-74 and over 75, it was not statistically significant. In the case of households with 'low' income, the OR was higher at 1.62 times (95% CI: 1.16-2.26), and for 'middle' income, it was significantly higher at 3.21 times (95% CI: 1.08-9.51). Conclusion: This study confirmed that the experience of unmet medical care is high among men who make up single-person households and low-income seniors. Therefore, this study suggests that policies to expand medical services and support welfare for single-person households should be established to resolve these problems, showing that health policies that take into account individual and regional characteristics are needed to improve medical accessibility for single-person households.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.396-408
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• 2017

한국은 고령자가 폭발적으로 증가하고 있다. 또한 고령자의 경제활동과 고령자의 통행빈도 또한 증가 할 것으로 예상된다. 반면에 고령자의 보행 중 낙상 등의 사고는 꾸준히 증가하고 있으며, 고령자의 보행시설 만족도는 최하위이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 결과의 이유들 중에 하나를 고령자들의 보행능력(일반인 대비 약 75%)을 고려하지 않은 보행 교통 시설물에서 찾았다. 이에 고령자들이 가장 불편함을 호소하는 계단 이용시 나타나는 고령자의 운동역학적인 보행특성을 동작분석시스템으로 알아보았다. 여러 보행변수들을 분석한 결과, 현재의 계단 높이로 규정되어 있는 18cm의 계단 높이는 고령자가 오름과 내림 보행 시 과도한 힘이 소요되며, 신체 중심이 흔들려 몸의 균형을 잡기에도 어려운 것으로 분석되었다. 이에 본 논문에서는 고령자 집단의 보행특성을 보여주는 보행변수들 간의 군집분석을 통하여 계단 챌면의 높이를 15cm 이하로 설정할 것 등의 계단 설계 기준을 제시하였다. 이는 일반인에게는 큰 변화는 아니지만 고령자에게는 통행빈도와 활동범위를 넓혀 보다 많은 사회경제 활동을 촉진 시킬 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2017년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.148-149
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• 2017

Recently, South Korea is reaching aged society through ageing society. Accordingly, facility related to aged is increased consistently because of effort to improve the welfare of the elderly through elderly long term care insurance in 2008. however, the number of fires in the elderly facilities is increasing rapidly too. It is becoming bigger and higher and the characteristics of person who is unable to afford are mostly having difficult evacuation. so fire safety guildelines are urgently needed but korea research is insufficient. In this study, we propose a fire scenario through investigation of fire causes for fire safety guideline development of elderly facility, and describe to the fire safety countermeasure.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.173-177
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• 2017

비데는 최근 상당수가 의료기능을 포함하여 다목적용으로 개발되어지고 있다. 그러나 이러한 비데를 사용함에 있어서도 장애인과 고령자가 일반인에 비해 추구하는 니즈들이 더 다양하고 심지어 장애유형별로도 제각각 요구사항들이 다르다. 따라서 본 연구는 고령자 및 장애인이 배변활동에서 요구하는 실질적인 니즈에 대해 조사하였으며 장애유형별로 니즈를 비교하여 분석하였다. 설문 조사는 고령자 39명, 장애인 120명을 대상으로 진행 되었다. 설문문항은 각 비데업체별 UI 인지능력 비교, 자동 물 내림 기능 선호도, 비데 컨트롤러 위치, 양각화 필요성에 대한 문항들로 이루어져 있다. 결과는 비데 UI인식에서 고령자와 장애인이 비슷한 비율로 제일 직관력이 뛰어난 아이콘을 선정하였다. 자동 물 내림 기능 선호도에 있어서는 고령자와 신체적기능장애인이 약 1:9의 비율로 자동 물 내림을 선호하였지만 감각적 기능장애인의 경우 5.1:4.9로 오히려 수동 물 내림을 더 선호하였다. 컨트롤박스 위치 또한 고령자와 신체적 기능장애인은 약 5:5의 비율로 차이가 미비했지만 감각적 기능장애인의 경우 2:8의 비율로 벽면 부착 보다는 비데 우측부착을 선호하는 것으로 나타났다. 시각 장애인에게만 해당되는 양각화 기능 선호에서는 점자지원보다 양각화 또는 점자와 양각화 모두 지원을 선호하는 응답자가 약 1:9의 비율로 높게 나타났다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2007

Objectives: This study was performed to provide the fundamental data available in the field of the elderly health of the low-income bracket by researching and comparing related factors for the assessment of the degree of depression and cognitive function between elderly welfare recipients and non-elderly welfare recipients. Methods: The study subjects, 402 elderly person over 65-year-old in Daejeon were interviewed, during the two-month from May to June 2006, about their general characteristics, depression and cognitive function. Results: elderly welfare recipients was higher than non-elderly welfare recipients in degree of depression on the other hand, in cognitive function is lower. Also, the depression and cognitive function were related with not only socio-demographic characteristics like the age, the degree of education, the presence of spouse or not and the health status but also health behavior characteristics like the sleeping time, the drinking and the exercise. Conclusions: The project of health promotion and programs that can improve the related factors to the depression and cognitive function for elderly welfare recipients should be developed and practiced.

• 대한물리치료과학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.735-744
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• 2001

After providing the purpose, scope and methods of present study in the first chapter. the second chapter discusses a theoretical overview on the social implication of medical expenditure and the medical insurance program for the aged population. In conclusion, to realize the reduction of aged population's medical expenditures, some possible plans are conceivable. Firstly, the payment level of medical insurance should be upgraded and the insurance coverage in oriental medicine treatment and the drug-store protection program need to be implemented. Secondly, the medical facilities and man-power have be expanded for the sake of reducing the social and geographical distances the aged population has to overcome to receive the medical benefits. Thirdly, the expansions of medical services for the home-stay aged are all the more required. Finally, a wide range of programs needs to be augmented to promote health for the aged population.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.99-108
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• 1996

The purpose of this review are to determine of role of physical therapist in silver industry, and to give the information about elderly person when silver industry will be needed in 21 centry. Current literature so physiological changes that occur in humans owing to aging is reviewed. Also, psychological changes are discussed. There are main important roles in silver industry. One is proper exercise prescription for helth care and the other is effective therapy for the various disease. It will help the elderly person who needs independent ADL.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제49권10호
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• pp.584-598
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• 2011

The age structure has been experiencing substantial change due to the decreased birth rate as well as the increased life expectancy. Gorge Magnus, an English economist, casts warnings of population ageing which has the potential of huge socioeconomic impact human society has never experienced before. The prediction that proportion of elderly people in need of oral health care will increase substantially is a new challenge to dentists in the future. The old paradigm that the aged person is just the person who was born earlier and needs the same conventional oral health care should be shifted to the new one. Elderly people tend to express their political interest related with health care system by actively participating in the national elections. The need to sustain economic status for the extended life span makes them seek eagerly esthetic health care to maintain sound social function. Most of them are under multiple chronic diseases and take related medicines. In addition, many studies report about mental change as well as physical change among the aged people. Since the prevalence of dental diseases among the aged is higher than other chronic devastating diseases, the aged seeking oral health care will increase. The aged who has different physical and psychological status as well as chronic disease and related medicine will show unexpected response to the conventional oral health care. In addition, the impact of tooth loss is substantial physically, mentally and emotionally. Dentist should prepare different approaches for the elderly dental patient.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.429-443
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• 2020

Purpose: This study examined the influencing factors of caregiver burden on the oral health-related quality of life of the spouse of an elderly person with dementia at home. Methods: The participants were 115 spouses of dementia patients registered at dementia safety centers in five health centers in D city. Data were collected from June through December in 2019, using questionnaires of Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) and Burden Interview (BI). The data were analyzed using an independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis using the IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0 Program. Results: A negative correlation was observed between the oral health-related quality of life and caregiver burden (r=-37, p<.001). The caregiver burden (β=-.28, p=.001), subjective health status (β=.39, p<.001), and dental clinic visit (β=-.25, p=.002) explained 33.0% of the variance in the oral health-related quality of life. Conclusion: The development of nursing care for spouses of dementia patients will be needed to reduce the caregiver burden and enhance subjective health status and dental clinic visit, which influence the oral health-related quality of life of spouse of elderly people with dementia at home.