• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1387-1394
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• 2017

As rate in an elderly population and expanding their range of activity rapidly increase, the demographics of the elderly population on a use of transportation also rise. Elderly pedestrians often find it difficult to react promptly to the traffic accidents as they are less perceptive of the dangers present under the situation. More than half of the elderly traffic accidents are elderly pedestrian accidents in road. Therefore, we design and implement smart safety hat for safety of elderly pedestrian. The smart safety hat binds stripe-shaped LED around a hat in order for a driver to perceive pedestrian easy and quickly. Features of smart safety hat include controlling the number of LEDs by using a light sensor and warning through vibration using a sound sensor. Also, we used Bluetooth to communicate with the smartphone to enable user customization of the light and numbers of LEDs.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.71-84
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• 2008

The usual reasons for elderly safety accidents include lack of care for disaster, physical disability, and an error of judgment and so on. But it is true that accidents will occur continuously with the afore-mentioned causes. Against the elderly safety accidents, safety is the main prerequisite for leading the successful and easy life in the elderly. Therefore, this study is purposed to provide the way of thinking about elderly safety issues by suggesting the methods and contents of education program. This study is specifically focused on developing audio-visual materials involved in all the safety accidents and researching the effect of safety education ability through materials with a view to identify the substantial problems. Education program should make a continuous and long term study so that the curricula of the safety accidents prevention education can be done systematically.

• 한국농촌간호학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2021

Purpose: This study was aimed to compare health promotion behaviors and safety consciousness for elderly women living alone in rural areas and elderly women in group homes, and then provide information for the development of safety awareness programs for elderly. Methods: The participants were 120 elderly women living alone in rural areas aged 65 or older and 120 elderly women living in group homes. The data collection was conducted during November 2020, and the collected data used the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program to verify frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, and independent t test. Results: There were significant differences of health promotion behaviors between elderly women living alone and elderly women in group homes (t=15.77, p<.001). In addition, there were significant differences of safety consciousness between elderly women living alone and elderly women in group homes (t=21.42, p<.001). Conclusion: Since the safety consciousness and health promotion behaviors of the elderly in group homes are significantly higher than that of the elderly living alone, various programs should be developed to improve the safety consciousness and health promotion behaviors in the elderly living alone. Based on local government' acts, continuous support and attention is needed that elderly women in group homes can maintain a healthy life.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제41호
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• pp.387-408
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• 2014

우리나라는 이미 고령화사회(aging society)에 진입했고 이제는 고령사회(aged society)로 나아가고 있다. 이처럼 노인인구가 늘어나게 되면서 교통사고나 노인자살과 같은 노인안전에 대한 문제 또한 중요해졌다. 마찬가지로 노인범죄피해도 갈수록 증가하고 있고 노인안전사고 또한 중요한 사회적 문제가 되고 있다. 경찰은 노인안전을 위해 여러 가지 활동을 하고 있다. 노인을 대상으로 하는 사기범죄를 예방하기 위한 계도활동이나 노인 교통사고 예방을 위해 안전시설점검과 교통안전교육 등을 실시하고 있다. 그리고 독거노인을 보호하기 위해 방문활동과 치매노인들의 실종을 예방하기 위해 CCTV 인프라의 확충과 지문등록제 등을 실시하고 있다. 하지만 이러한 활동들은 경찰전체의 조직적이고 체계화된 활동이 아니라 지방청이나 경찰서 단위로 이루어지고 있어서 아직은 충분하지 못한 실정이다. 이처럼 노인안전에 대한 경찰의 활동이 아직까지 미흡하기 때문에 노인안전을 강화하기 위한 경찰의 역할을 모색하고자 하는 것이 이 연구의 목적이다. 이를 위한 경찰의 활동을 제언하자면 먼저 노인대상 사기범죄를 예방하기 위해서는 지속적인 계도와 단속활동이 이루어져야 하며 사기범죄에 대한 예방교육도 이루어져야 한다. 그리고 현재는 노인학대와 같은 범죄에 대해서는 노인보호전문기관이 주도적으로 활동하지만 노인학대도 범죄인만큼 경찰이 주도적으로 나설 필요가 있다. 또한 노인자살을 예방하기 위해서 자살고위험군에 대한 세심한 관리가 필요하고 교통사고 예방을 위해 노인보호구역의 지정과 노인들의 자발적인 운전면허 반납을 유도해야 한다. 그리고 이러한 노인안전문제의 효율적인 대응을 위해서는 노인안전 전담조직이 필요하다. 노인안전이라는 개념은 광범위한 개념이므로 경찰만으로 노인의 안전을 모두 책임지기에는 무리가 있으므로 경찰의 주도로 정부 각 부처와 민간단체 그리고 지역사회 등과 협력하여 노인안전을 위한 사회안전망을 구축하는 것이 필요할 것이다.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.180-188
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• 2013

Purpose: This study aims to explore the effect of physical, emotional and environmental status on safety consciousness of the elderly who live alone. Methods: A total of 228 participants were the elderly living alone aged 65 years and older. Three questionnaires were developed to measure safety consciousness, physical status, and environmental status by researchers. Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was used to evaluate emotional status of the elderly. Data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression. Results: Average scores of participants were $3.71{\pm}1.49$ (range 0~6) for physical status, $8.28{\pm}3.38$ (range 0~15) for environmental status, $7.21{\pm}3.40$ (range 0~15) for GDS and $17.00{\pm}6.54$ (range 0~37) for safety consciousness. Safety consciousness was significantly associated with education, marital status, drinking, and depression as emotional status. These variables explained 13.6% of the variance in safety consciousness. Conclusion: The levels of safety consciousness among the elderly living alone were low. Education, marital status, drinking, and depression were the factors affecting safety consciousness. Risk assessment and management of these factors are needed to increase safety consciousness of the elderly.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1146-1153
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• 2022

As the population is aging, accidents involving elderly people are also increasing (2014:11,667 persons; 2018: 11,797 persons). In the case of the elderly population, falling accidents are the primary direct or indirect causes of death; in particular, they face an elevated risk of staircase falls. This study proposes a method of evaluating the safety of staircases using Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based virtual simulation. By making a virtual user with the behavioral characteristics of the elderly respond to a staircase in a BIM model, its safety performance can be evaluated. The evaluation criteria were derived from regulations, elements, and characteristics relevant to the safety of staircases. To validate the proposed method, safety evaluation tests were simulated on actual staircases. The evaluation result of the test simulation shows the safety scores of 1.97 points for the elderly user and 2.95 points for the average male adult user against a required safety score of a minimum of 2 points. That is, safety is relative to users as the safety of the same staircase can be different depending upon the different behavioral characteristics of users. The study suggests that the risk of staircase-related fall accidents to the elderly can be reduced by improving staircase designs through the proposed method.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 베이비부머와 예비노인, 현재노인들이 인식하고 있는 안전에 대해서 살펴보고, 그에 대한 대응방안을 모색하는데 있다. 연구대상은 통계청에서 실시한 2008 사회통계조사의 대상이 되는 약 20,000 표본 가구의 만 15세 이상 상주 가구원 중 베이비부머 세대의 코호트와 법정 노인 연령을 기준으로 세 집단으로 구성되었다. 전반적 사회의 안전도, 타인과 자신의 안전인식, 10년 전과 비교한 현재사회의 안전도, 10년 후의 사회 안전도, 사회 각 분야의 안전에 대한 인식도, 조사대상의 사회 불안 요인 순위 등에 대해서 살펴본 결과 베이비부머와 예비노인, 현재노인 간 집단 간 인식의 차이가 나타났다. 특히 안전의 취약계층인 노인의 전반적인 안전인식은 베이비부머나 예비노인에 비해 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 영역별 안전인식의 차이는 각 세대가 겪은 시대적 특성과 경험을 반영하고 있다. 따라서 안전에 대한 대책은 각 연령집단별 특성과 그들이 겪어온 세대적 특성을 함께 고려하여 이루어져야 함을 시사해 준다.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2011

The death toll of the elderly by accidents in 2007 takes 6.5% of total death toll. The lost income from this is estimated to be 17 trillion and 511 billion won. According to CISS of Korea Consumer Protection Board, the number of safety related accidents of the elderly at home in 2006 was 486 cases in 2006 and has gradually increased every year. This thesis created 115 guidelines at 14 spaces as facility evaluation index evaluating the aging friendliness of the facility and safety related accidents generated at elderly resident welfare facility, examined influence variables of safety related accidents with 191 elderly including demographic variable, physical skill variable, social psychological variable and facility environmental variables, and then verified relevance between safety accidents and each influence variable. As a result, it was verified through ANOVA test of SAS Package Program and $x^2$- test that facility environmental variable would be closely related to the accident. In this regard, this study newly proposes the facility standards of aging friendly facility by supplementing them with contents and guidelines of facility evaluation table as ways to reduce safety related facility of the elderly.

• 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.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

본 논문은 안전한 보행 경로 정보를 제공하는 IoT 기반 고령자용 교통안전 보행자 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 고령자 안전 변수의 요인분석을 수행하고 분석결과를 사용하여 고령자에게 최적의 경로를 제공한다. 이 시스템의 성능을 검증하기 위해 고령 보행자 경로에 대한 성능 측정을 실험하였습니다. 그 결과 모바일 내비게이션보다 안전 성능이 더 나은 성능 확인하였다.