• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.56-64
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• 2024

In this study, 293 middle-aged and elderly people in Gwangju·Jeonnam were analyzed for prevalence of hypertension and diabetes and health behavior index using composite logistic regression analysis using SPSS ver 21.0. The prevalence of hypertension was significant in age, education level, and household type, and the prevalence of diabetes was significant in education level. The prevalence of hypertension according to health behavior related indicators was significant in subjective health awareness, prosthesis repair, and discomfort chewing, and the prevalence of diabetes was significant in subjective health awareness, oral examination, discomfort chewing. The variables affecting the prevalence of hypertension were age and prosthetic repair, and the variables affecting the prevalence of diabetes were age, prosthetic repair, discomfort chewing, and annual drinking frequency. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between hypertension, diabetes mellitus prevalence and health behavior indicators of middle-aged and elderly people, and to help the importance of Community Care and oral health care improvement program.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.463-478
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• 2012

This study investigated the health and nutritional characteristics according to household income level and obesity in Koreans aged over 50 years based on the 2005 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Subjects were classified into 3 groups by average household income with reference to the minimum monthly living expenses (MLE): low (n = 319, < 100% MLE), middle (n = 222, < 200% MLE), high (n = 411, ${\geq}$ 200% MLE) and each group was compared by BMI index. With increasing income level, the prevalence of systolic hypertension and hyperlipidemia was increased. In the low income group, serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, and fasting glucose were higher in the obese compared with the normal. In the middle and high income groups, the prevalence of hyperlipidemia and diastolic hypertension were higher in the obese. Subjects had nutritional imbalance, such as inadequate intake of calcium and potassium. With increasing income level, the percentages of protein and fat to total calorie were increased in addition to the intakes and density of nutrients. The obese in the low income group had higher intakes of energy, protein, phosphorus and higher consumption frequency of cereals and potatoes compared with the normal. It was shown that the obese of the middle and high income groups tended to have lower consumption frequency of Korean cabbage and higher frequency of fruits. The obese of high income group also had binge drinking habit. Therefore, this study suggests that specific approaches based on economic status should be considered in developing nutrition education program for the elderly.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.175-192
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the preferences and needs of middle-aged salary workers' to make silver town their future care type. The sample of this study consisted of 837 middle-aged salary workers living in Seoul, Daejeon, Jeonju, Daegu, Gyonggi-do, and Jeju-do. Statistic values that were used for the analysis were frequencies, means, and logistic analysis. The major findings were as follows : First, 91.5% of the middle-aged salary workers needed silver town as their future care type and 63.2％ of all workers wanted to live in the silver town. Second, the most frequent reason for choosing silver town as their care type was the convenience of their daily life. For the most part, salary workers answered that they would be moving to a silver town when they have some problems with mobility. Also, they wanted to pay for a deposit of 54,620,000 won and a monthly payment of 870,000 won. Third, the significant factors affecting the salary workers' preference to silver town were the respondent's sex and job, possession of a first child or not, real estate asset and monthly household income, subjective recognition for their economic status, having savings for their future, and the preparation for elderly life.

• 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.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.43-59
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to analyze the residential preferences, the type of house, the size of living space, and the region for later life and contributing factors to their housing plan. The sample in this study consisted of 572 aged couple living in Korea. Statistics employed for the analysis were frequencies, means, X2test, logit analysis and multiple regression. The results could be summarized as follows. They preferred 31.2 pyung as living space, the single detacted house(81.1%) and living in middle-small cities or rural area. The present living space, present living area, satisfaction of economic status had significant effects on the living space in later life. Those who had a plan to live in the single detached house were affected by husband's educational attaintment, the type of present house, present and future living region. And the factors affecting furture living region were present living region, household income, household expenditure, total asset and preferred housing type. The affecting factors were different from future residential preferences by occupation and health status.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.45-57
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 중장년층을 대상으로 노후준비가 현재의 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향요인을 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 서울과 경기주변의 수도권에 거주하는 중장년층을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였고, 총 450부의 설문지를 회수하여 결측치가 많은 8부를 제외한 442부가 분석에 활용되었다. 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 정서적 만족도에 영향을 미치는 변수는 정서적 노후준비, 경제적 노후준비가 정서적 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 둘째, 신체적 만족도에 영향을 미치는 변수는 학력, 기술/노무직, 정서적 노후준비, 신체적 노후준비가 신체적 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 셋째, 경제적 만족도에 영향을 미치는 변수는 가계소득, 정서적 노후준비, 경제적 노후준비가 경제적 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 넷째, 사회관계 만족도에 영향을 미치는 변수는 성별, 정서적 노후준비가 사회관계 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 이러한 결과는 노년기 삶의 만족도는 노년기의 수준에서 향상되기는 매우 어렵기 때문에 중장년층 시절부터 노후준비가 잘되어 있어야 함을 시사해 주는 것이라 할 수 있다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.337-349
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• 2021

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between eating behaviour and healthy dietary competency of single and multi-person households, to improve healthy eating behavior. Methods: This study was conducted on 6,355 adult household members who participated in the Food Consumption Behavior Survey 2020. The subjects were divided into age groups comprising young people in their 20s and 30s, middle-aged people in their 40s and 50s, and the elderly in their 60s and above. The eating behavior and healthy dietary competency of single-person and multi-person households were then analyzed. Results: The average age of the members in the single-person households was found to be higher. Single-person households were also found to have a lower marriage rate and lower monthly household income than multi-person households across the age groups of young, middle-aged, and elderly people (P < 0.05). Among each of the age groups, single-person households had significantly higher rates of skipping breakfast and eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner alone than multi-person households (P < 0.05). Young single-person households had lower average scores on healthy dietary competency than multi-person households (P = 0.032). When adjusted for age, gender, marriage, education, occupation, and household income, single-person households had a higher risk of delivery/take-out, eating out, or skipping meals compared to multi-person households (P < 0.05). In multi-person households, the risk of skipping meals, eating alone, eating out, or delivery/take-out decreased as healthy dietary competency improved (P < 0.05). On the other hand, in single-person households, as healthy dietary competency increased, the risk of delivery/take-out or eating alone decreased (P < 0.05). Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that healthy dietary competency and eating practices can be improved by providing customized dietary education by age group for single and multi-person households.

• 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.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.195-210
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• 2002

The purpose of this study were to find out the difference of needs of caring between care-givers and non care-givers, and to suggest the way of lessening vigorous task of care-givers for the elderly with dementia. Data were collected from 130 nationwide respondents intentionally divided into two groups; care-givers and non care-givers in the middle aged with middle and upper income. Collected data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, t-test using SPSS package. Since the result of survey, unexpectedly, showed no difference between two groups, it could be explained as that these two groups commonly had same needs of caring for the elderly with dementia. Major findings were as follow; 1) Most Koreans stiff thought family should be the main care-giver for the elderly with dementia prior to nation or society. 2) Responsibility of caring for the elderly with dementia would be better to be shared with children instead of focusing to a child. 3) They thought ideal residential facilities for the elderly with dementia were small-scale professional dementia facility(group home) rather than home or general elderly housing. 4) Professional dementia care hospital was one of the most needed facilities for the elderly with dementia, followed by short-stay and dar-care center. 5) It was revealed care-giving task was vigorous showing that most care-givers spent 1-5 hours a day for caring, while 13% of respondents spent 11-24 hours a duty. 6) 90% of care-givers took the responsibility of main care-giver because of duty of offsprings or spouses, and wanted to be free from their current circumstances. From the result of this survey researchers would like to suggest the establishment of diverse facilities for professional dementia care to lessen the caring burden for the elderly with dementia: group home, chronic hospital, short-stay, day-care center. Financial support from the government for the housing renovation of the caring families should be considered seriously afterward. It is needed to give the opportunity to select proper paid dementia care facilities according to their income and situation of household.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.141-155
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• 2024

연구배경: 최근 국내 중고령층 수면무호흡증 환자 수는 증가되는 추세이며, 그 중 가장 임상적으로 흔히 나타나는 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증은 전반적인 건강 및 웰빙과 연관된다. 이에 본 연구는 한국 중고령층의 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증 위험과 주관적 건강 및 건강 관련 삶의 질 간의 연관성을 파악하고자 하였다. 방법: 2019-2020년 국민건강영양조사(Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey VIII) 전체 응답자 22,559명 중 40세 이상 성인을 추출하여, 결측치가 없는 총 6,659명의 중고령층을 대상으로 데이터를 2차 분석하였다. 그리고 로지스틱 회귀분석과 다중회귀분석을 통해 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 위험 여부와 주관적 건강 및 건강 관련 삶의 질 간의 연관성을 조사하였다. 결과: 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 비위험군에 비해 위험군인 경우 주관적 건강이 저하될 오즈비는 1.84배(p<0.001) 통계적으로 유의하게 높았고, 건강 관련 삶의 질은 0.02점(β, -0.02; p<0.001) 통계적으로 유의하게 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 특정 변수에 대해 하위그룹 분석을 실시한 결과, 성별, 수면시간, 우울증 여부, 가구소득, 가구원 수에 따라 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 위험과 주관적 건강 및 건강 관련 삶의 질 간의 연관성이 통계적으로 유의하게 나타났다. 폐쇄성 수면무호흡 위험군을 기준으로 하였을 때, 남성에 비해 여성에서 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 더 높았고 건강 관련 삶의 질 점수가 낮았다. 수면시간이 8시간 이상이거나 6시간 이하인 경우 6-8시간인 경우보다 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 더 높았고 건강 관련 삶의 질 점수가 낮았다. 우울증이 있는 경우 없는 경우보다 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 높았다. 가구소득 수준이 낮을수록, 가구원 수가 감소할수록 주관적 건강이 낮을 연관성이 높아지고 건강 관련 삶의 질 점수가 낮아졌다. 결론: 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증 위험이 단순히 수면장애로만 직결되는 것이 아니라 개인의 주관적 건강과 건강 관련 삶의 질과도 연관성이 있다는 점을 인식할 수 있도록 사회적인 지원 및 교육이 제공되어야 한다. 특히 여성, 낮은 가구소득, 1인 가구원, 우울증이 있는 취약계층을 대상으로 폐쇄성 수면무호흡증 예방 및 관리프로그램을 통해 주관적 건강과 건강 관련 삶의 질을 향상시킬 수 있도록 해야 할 것이다.