• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.2079-2088
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• 2015

Most overseas Korean seniors live in China and Japan due to Korea's historical background. Although Korean seniors living in Korea China and Japan share some similarities, the overseas seniors have become culturally different as they adapted to their countries of residence. Therefore, the aim of this study was to provide basic reference data for future senior health enhancement models by comparing and analyzing the health of Korean and overseas Korea seniors. The number of subjects in this study was 603 people, which was comprised of 231 Korean seniors, 246 overseas seniors in China, and 126 overseas seniors in Japan. The average age of the subjects was 74.4 years old. The Korean seniors displayed higher average health score than the overseas seniors. Therefore, the study believes that cultural elements should be considered in a future senior health enhancement model.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.63-69
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• 2018

This study is to examine the determinants of the elderly poverty by using the Decision-tree analysis. In line with this perspective, this study includes individual characteristics, family characteristics, working characteristics, and periodic income characteristics after retirement as determinants for senior poverty. The study uses data from the Korean Retirement and Income Study based on panel survey and employs the Decision-tree analysis to explain the causes of the elderly poverty. As the result of analysis, earned wage has the greatest effect on the elderly poverty. Depending on status of the earned wage, there are 2 different variable groups. One with no earned wage includes public pension, education, and residence, paid employee and gender in the other with earned wage. Based on the analytical results, the study suggests measures to address the elderly poverty.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.223-231
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• 2020

Older drivers have an increased risk of accidents due to poor function, but they also develop self-regulation ability to check their own changes. Thus, information on whether the actual elderly driver responds to changes in driving ability and risk may provide a meaningful basis for the clinic and research of the elderly's driving ability assessment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide basic data for the evaluation of elderly drivers by analyzing the driving risk self-perception characteristics in terms of driving behavior and function with Korean elderly drivers. A self-reporting assessment was conducted on 500 elderly drivers living in the community and the characteristics of driving risk perception were analyzed. As a result, it was confirmed that many elderly drivers are aware of the driving risk when their vision and hearing are impaired or when they find it difficult to adapt to changes in driving conditions. On the other hand, the characteristics of insensitive reactions to changes in medical health conditions, such as drug use or epilepsy, seizures, and loss of consciousness, were identified. The researcher hopes this study will contribute to the safety management of elderly drivers in Korea, where aging is accelerating.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.171-180
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the characteristics of the elderly living community in rural areas on the life satisfaction of the elderly. The subjects of study were 670 elderly people living at the living communities in Jeollabuk-do. In order to achieve the research purpose, multiple regression analysis model was applied using community characteristics as independent variables and life satisfaction as dependent variable. Among community variables, programs, mutual support, pysical space satisfaction, community consciousness and conflict, household labor burden are significant variables for life satisfaction. Among the personal characteristics, subjective health, monthly average income, marriage status(bereavement) are found to have a significant effect on life satisfaction. These results suggest that the influence of community characteristics as well as individual characteristics are important on the life satisfaction of the elderly living in the group life. The results of this study suggest such as policy implications that living community features such as interactions among seniors, programs, and their relationship with local residents are the important intervention points for improving life satisfactions of the elderly living community in rural area.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.207-217
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• 2011

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to garner useful information through a comparative analysis of health behaviors and health states between the young-old and old-old elderly in a rural Korean area. Methods: We define the young-old elderly as those 65 to 74 years of age, and the old-old as those over 70. The survey was administered in October and November of 2009 at senior citizen centers in Sangju City, Kyongsangbuk-do, South Korea. The number of subjects surveyed approximated the demographics of the aged population of the administrative district of centers of 24 eup, myeon, and dong. Results: Compared with the young-old elderly, the old-old were vulnerable to population sociological characteristics. While there were many cases of contraction of diseases, only a small percentage of old-old elderly were engaged in regular exercise. In addition, the old-old elderly lagged behind the young-old in terms of physical activity, mental and oral health, hearing, and vision. Conclusions: The vulnerability of the old-old elderly in terms of physical and mental health needs to be acknowledged as various characteristics of the elderly that appears according an age group. A variety of disease prevention and health promotion programs that focus on the health behavior and status of the young-old and old-old elderly need to be developed and put into practice.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.390-392
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• 2009

본 논문은 김천시에 거주하는 60세 이상 남녀 노인의 음주특성을 조사하였다. 조사결과 남자 노인이 여자 노인보다 음주 경향이 높게 나타났으며, 남자 노인은 10대부터 음주 경험이 있는 초기시작음주유형인 반면, 여자 노인은 나이가 들면서 음주를 경험하게 되는 후기시작음주 유형으로 나타났다. 음주를 하는 노인 중 40.6%는 정상음주를 하고 있었으며, 24.7%는 상습적 과음자로 나타났다. 또한 남자 노인은 '인간관계 유지'를 위해 음주를 하는 경우가 많았으며, 이 때 '기분이 좋아지거나 어려운 일이 해결 된 것 같다'라고 응답하였다. 여자 노인은 남자 노인과 다르게 '기분전환이나 생활 스트레스'로 인한 문제로 음주를 하는 경우가 많았으며, 이 때 '우울해지거나 하소연하고 싶어진다'는 또 다른 문제를 나타내기도 하였다.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.231-255
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• 2004

본 연구의 목적은 경상북도 경산지역에 거주하는 65세 이상 노인들의 치매실태를 알아보고 치매노인들의 인구학적 특성 및 생활 습관적 특성을 알아보는데 있다. 본 연구에서는 모집단의 약 6%에 해당하는 1,120 명을 표본으로 추출하여 한국형 간이정신상태 검사를 포함한 면담표를 이용하여 2003년 8월 1일부터 2003년 9월 2l일까지 수행되었다. 면담에 응하지 않거나 분석 자료로 활용할 수 없는 160 사례를 제외한 960 사례가 최종분석에 이용되었다. 본 연구에서 밝혀진 내용은 다음과 같다. 한국형 간이정신상태 검사에 따르면 응답자들의 10.6%가 치매에 이환된 것으로 나타났으며 그들 가운데 54.9%는 경증, 31.4%는 중등증, 13.7%는 중증이었다. 치매노인들의 인구학적 및 생활 습관적 특성을 알아보기 위하여 교차분석을 도입하였으며 치매에 영향을 미치는 인구학적 및 생활 습관적 특성들을 경험적으로 규명하기 위하여 로지스틱회귀분석을 사용하였다. 로지스틱회귀분석 결과 정신노동에 관련된 직업에 종사했던, 규칙적인 운동을 하는 응답자, 규칙적 식사를 하는 사람과 적당량의 음식을 섭취하는 응답자들이 치매이환의 대수승산을 감소시키는 것으로 밝혀졌으며 통계적으로 유의미한 것으로 나타났다. 반면 나이가 높을수록 노인들의 치매이환의 대수승산을 증가시키는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 끝으로 노인들의 치매이환을 감소시키기 위한 여러 가지 정책적 대안들을 논의하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.325-326
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• 2022

통계청에 의하면 65세 이상 인구가 2024년 1,000만명을 도래할 것으로 예측하고 있으며, 노인인구 증가와 함께 노인치안 이슈들은 매년 증가하고 있다. 특히, 경찰청 자료에 따르면 최근 5년간 노인범죄피해는 매년 증가하고 있는 것으로 나타났다(경찰청, 2021). 치안서비스 대상에서 주요한 영역을 차지하게 될 노인을 대상으로 한 범죄예방정책을 마련하기 위하여 범죄피해노인의 특성에 관한 연구를 함에 있어 연도별 노인의 범죄피해영향요인의 차이가 있는지를 이 연구에서는 분석하고자 하였다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 한국형사·법무정책연구원의 2014년, 2016년, 2018년 전국범죄피해조사 2차 자료를 활용하였으며, 그 중 만65세 노인대상 자료만을 추출하여 2014년 1.921명, 2016년, 2,935명, 2018년 2,707명을 각각 최종분석에 활용하였다. Spss ver 21. 통계프로그램을 활용하여 로지스틱회귀분석을 실시하였으며, 연구결과 2014년에는 사회적 무질서 수준과 노인범죄피해와의 관계성이 높았다면, 2016년에는 물리적 무질서 수준과 노인범죄피해와의 관계성이 높았고, 2016년과 2018년에는 독거노인과 빈 집으로 가구가 노출되는 시간이 긴 정도가 노인범죄피해와의 관계성이 높은 것으로 볼 수 있었다. 이러한 연도별 노인 범죄피해 영향요인의 변화를 실증연구를 통해 검증함으로써 추후 노인범죄예방을 위한 정책마련의 자료로 활용하고자 한다.

• 한국노년학
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.1183-1196
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of characteristics of the long-term care elderly and caregivers on caregivers' stress. The data of this study were collected from 105 long-term care elderly caregivers with 3 grade in Pusan, Daegu, and Gyung-buk area. The results showed that each stress of caregivers was influenced by diverse characteristics in various ways. Time-dependent stress of caregivers was influenced by elderly dependency and caregivers' health. Self-development stress of caregivers was influenced by elderly dependency, caregivers' health, caregivers' age, and relationship quality. Physical stress of caregivers was influenced by elderly dependency and caregivers' health. Social stress of caregivers was influenced by elderly dependency, caregivers' health, and relationship quality. Emotional stress of caregivers was influenced by relationship quality between the elderly and caregivers. These results indicated that the caregivers' stress was influenced not only physical characteristics of the elderly and the caregivers but also relational characteristics.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.241-252
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• 2011

This study analyzed the factors of the physical and social characteristics, self-esteem as well as life satisfaction of elderly women, and analyzed the effects of the physical and social characteristics on self-esteem and life satisfaction. The survey was conducted from January 10 to February 10, 2011 among the elderly women aged 60 or older in the Guri-si and its environs of Gyeonggi-do, and 380 responses were used in the data analysis. The statistical analysis methods were frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. As a result, the physical characteristics of elderly women were classified by the activities of daily living(ADL), physical function, and disease status. The social characteristics of elderly women were classified by the religious and social activities. ADL, physical function, religious and social activities were shown to influence the self-esteem. In addition, ADL, physical function, and religious activities influenced the life satisfaction of elderly women.