• 농촌계획
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.69-78
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• 2012

Korean population has been rapidly aging. Most of people regard the aging population as future crisis due to the rate of change and agree to prepare for a soft-landing on aging society in South Korea. Particularly, the aging population growth in rural areas is much faster than urban areas. Also rural areas relatively have poorer social and economic conditions so the countermeasures for population aging considering related social and economic indices are required. Moreover, each rural region has the different preparedness level for rural aging based on regional socio-economic characteristics. In this study, we analyzed correlations of the rural aging rate and local characteristics and developed an evaluation index to show the regional preparedness status for rural aging. To test the applicability of developed indicators, we applied them to 161 rural regions and assessed regional preparedness level for rural aging. This study would provide basic data for establishing policies for rural aging.

• 농촌계획
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.203-212
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• 2013

The aging of farm households has caused serious problems such as productivity slowdown and aggravated income polarization in South Korea. Urban-to-rural migration has been recently suggested as a measure to attenuate the aging of rural population and other related problems. The inflow of migrants for farming can have a substantial effect on agriculture and rural communities while the natural adjustment of rural population caused by birth and death is slow. This paper forecasts population distribution of different provinces using the Origin-Destination (OD) analysis, taking into account both the size and directions of migration. In the analysis, nodes where the migration takes place are divided by the industrial sectors (agriculture and non-agriculture), regions, and ages. The results of a ten-year forecast shows that the aging of total population in most provinces will be intensified, but the portion of people over sixty will decrease in the agricultural sector. This finding implies that migration into rural areas, when occurring by a large extent, can mitigate the aging process and attendant problems.

• 한국농촌간호학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was done to examine the relationship of successful aging, depression, and family function in rural elders. Method: A descriptive correlation study design was used and data of the study were collected from 272 people who were overn 65 years of age and lived in a rural community. Result: The mean score for successful aging was $2.28{\pm}0.46$ points of a maximum 3 points. The elders showed a moderate degree of family function ($6.98{\pm}2.83$ points out of 10 points). The mean score for depression was $6.13{\pm}3.75$ points out of 15 points. There was a statistically significant correlation between successful aging and both depression (r=-.659, p<.001) and family function (r=.621, p<.001). Stepwise regression analysis was done to verify factors influencing successful aging. Depression was the dominant factor accounting for 43.2% of the total variance, followed by family function and age in that order. Inclusion of all of the study values resulted in an explanation power of 61.7%. Conclusion: The study results suggest that the provision of individual socio-psychological, and economic measures is important to promote successful aging in rural areas which are different in terms of socio-cultural as well as regional factors compared to urban areas.

• 한국농촌건축학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to establish planning criteria and development of type for the senior citizen who lives alone in home for the elderly at rural and fishing villages. In order to take most suitable co-housing, this analysis is progressed various building types based on aging in place and aging in health; self care, nono care, service care and community care. This paper is to suggest collective housing with 10 types in large scale and extracted 19 types in detail scale. The basis of classification are location condition; aging in place, building condition, health care condition; aging in health and possession & operation condition. In viewpoint of dwelling welfare 'Home for the Elderly' is to concerned with systematic methodology and architectural typology for senior citizen who lives alone in the rural and fishing village.

• 한국농촌건축학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

Korea is moving toward an aging society faster than the other advance countries such as the U.S. and France. Such aging phenomena are posing greater problems in rural areas than in urban areas, and particularly, decrease in productivity caused by aging population leads to economic difficulties and hinders the improvement of housing life. The purpose of this research is to examine and identify the housing conditions of the vulnerable in rural areas and to present ways to improve the elderly housing and the housing environment in rural areas and to provide basic data for materializing the policies to enhance the quality of life. The results of this research are as follows. First, the elderly in rural areas were found to receive relatively smooth supports for services related to clothing and food through the government and social organizations. But for the housing problems, it was found that there were not any supports. Second, the poor housing environment may cause diseases to the elderly with weak immunity, so ways to remedy these problems are urgently needed. Third, the vulnerable in rural areas can hardly bear the burden of improving the housing environment, so supports from the government and social organizations are needed. Fourth, ways to support the vulnerable such as households receiving basic living subsidies and to support the poor who are not receiving such subsidies should be explored.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.39-53
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• 2014

우리나라의 인구 고령화 현상은 매우 빠르게 진행되고 있으며 농촌지역의 인구 고령화가 도시지역보다 더욱 빠르게 진행되고 있다. 그러나 지금까지 인구 고령화에 관련한 정책이나 연구들은 농촌지역보다 주로 도시지역에 초점을 두고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 농촌지역의 고령화 문제에 대한 심각성을 일깨우고, 나아가 지역 맞춤형 인구 고령화 정책을 수립하기 위한 기초정보를 제공한다. 이를 위해 농촌지역의 인구 고령화 수준을 미시적으로 제시하고 인구 고령화 현상의 공간적 확산 패턴을 분석하였다. 분석 결과 첫째, 읍면 단위의 농촌지역에 따라 인구 고령화 수준과 공간적 확산 패턴이 각각 다르게 분석되었다. 둘째, 고령화의 시공간적 확산 측면에서 인구 고령화 지수가 높으면서 공간적으로 집중되어 있는 지역(High-High, hot spot 지역)과 지수가 낮으면서 집중되어 있는 지역(Low-Low, cold spot 지역)은 뚜렷하게 구분되었다. 이상의 분석결과를 통해, 본 연구는 지역 맞춤형 인구 고령화 정책, 특히 농촌지역의 인구 고령화 정책을 수립하는데 기여하고자 한다.

• 농촌계획
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.85-94
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the hollowization in rural villages which causes marginal villages appears in Korean rural villages and whether the hollowization has relation with decrease and aging of population or not. For achieving the research objective, survey was carried out focused on Geumsan-gun. As a result, it confirmed that rural out-migration and rural decline especially in 'people', 'land(economic situation)' and 'community' have being progressed. Also variance analysis and regression analysis were executed with using the number of population and the ratio of people over 65 as dependent variables and using each survey contents(variables) as independent variables. The results of analysis showed that the ratio of people over 65(+), the income level per household(-), the rate of fallow lands(+), the number of empty houses(+), programs for urban-rural interchange(+), and the implementing public projects(+), etc. have a relation with the number of population(-) and the number of population(-), the income level per household(-), the rate of fallow lands(+), the number of empty houses(+), activities of communities(+), and the implementing public projects(+), etc. have a relation with the ratio of people over 65(+) (+: increase, -: decrease). So the hollowization in people', 'land(economic situation)' and 'community' has direct relation with decrease and aging of population in rural areas.

• 농촌계획
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2016

Aging phenomenon is an important issue in Korea national policy. This aging phenomenon depends on the social and environmental characteristics of regions. Also aging phenomenon and regional characteristics have spatial dependency. The purpose of this study is to discover the spatial changes in aging population rate and to find local factors of regional aging phenomenon considering spatial autocorrelation. For spatial analysis of ageing phenomenon, local Moran's I and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) were applied. As the results, the most significant changes of aging phenomenon appeared between 2000 and 2005, and most of hot-spot regions (aged regions) were distributed in Jullanam-do and Jullabuk-do. The results of GWR (R-square: 0.681) shows that total fertility rate, the number of doctor per 1,000 people and forest area rate have positive relation with aging population rate, but the number of private academy per 1,000 people has negative relation.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.499-508
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• 2013

본 연구는 빠른 속도로 증가하고 있는 농촌 노인의 성공적 노화를 위한 중재 프로그램 개발의 기초자료를 얻고자 농촌 노인들의 성공적 노화의 영향요인을 조사한 서술적 조사연구이다. 자료 수집은 2012년 9월부터 12월까지 W군에 거주하는 65세 이상 노인 208명을 편의추출하여 설문지를 통해 자료를 수집하였다. 자료분석은 SPSS 21.0 program을 사용하였으며, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Multiple regression으로 분석하였다. 연구결과 농촌 노인의 성공적 노화에 영향을 주는 설명요인으로 사회적 지지, 우울, 인지기능, 생산적 활동, 일상생활활동 순서로 나타났으며, 설명력은 42.1%였다. 농촌 노인의 성공적 노화를 위해서는 지역사회와의 연계를 통한 보건의료서비스제공 및 사회적 활동 등 사회적 지지체계 구축이 가장 필요하며, 이에 따른 맞춤형 간호 중재 프로그램 개발의 필요성을 제언한다.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.773-797
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• 2010

Recent years, being advanced the phenomena of fewness and aging rapidly in rural areas, rural community has been collapsed fastly. This study is aimed for two intentions: the one is identification of the actual conditions of rural diminishing in population, and the other is having a view of real picture of it in future. The major result of this study is summarized as follows. First, as a result of the rural area's shrinking for a long time advanced, the rural community has grown to under the minimum autogenesis level. Futher more this study have a look out in ten years later that rural community will diminish in population to 42% size compared with now, and the number of elder than 80 years old occupy a half of total population in a standard case. Such a consequence of this study implies no doubt that the rural development policy must lay a stress to cope with a serious situation of rural scantiness. And policy conversion calls for having a new understanding of this situation first.