• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.113-125
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• 2008

To test if the developed ubiquitous health care devices working well and vital information could be collected and monitored systematically through internet and to test if the devices and services could be used further. Kyungwon University, KT Co., Gil Medical Center, LIG Nex1 Co., and Sujeong Health Center conducted an ubiquitous health care demonstration project in Sujeong-Gu, Sungnam, Korea from Mar. 5 to May 16. We developed and applied several medical devices to monitor health of the elderly in their houses through internet. The devices were sphygmomanometer, glucometer, body fat scale, Health Pad, and activity sensor. We distributed the devices to 20 recipients of home care and 7 diabetes patients. After received the devices and were explained how to use them, they used the devices in their houses. The vital signs of the residents were monitored through internet. A nurse monitored and consulted their vital signs in the monitoring center in Kyungwon University during the demonstration period. The consultant called them and consulted on their blood pressure, blood sugar level, and body fat after a few seconds they used the devices as well as provision of recommended contents such as diets and activities through Health Pad. To investigate cognition and satisfaction of the participants for the devices, we surveyed the participants at the end of the demonstration period. For the change in blood pressure, blood sugar level, and activities, we conducted statistical test. After the demonstration period. cognition and satisfaction for the devices and change in blood pressure, blood sugar level, and activities were evaluated. Most of the participants were acknowledged how to use the device and satisfied with the use of the devices. The internet monitoring and services are considered to be promising because most of the participants were satisfied especially because somebody was monitoring their health status. However some weaknesses such as short battery life of the activity sensor, lack of connection of consultations with hospitals, and low understanding on usage of some of the devices need to be complemented.

• 대한간호
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.59-76
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• 1997

The purposes of this study were to identify the contents and satisfaction level of the patients received home care service, and to compare the differences of the contents by the characteristics of the patients. Seventy eight patients received home care service from 1st Jan. to 30th Sept., 1996 were data-collected to analyze the contents and outcomes of home care service. Sixty-nine patients currently receiving home care service were participated to evaluate the satisfaction level of home care service. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, $x^2$ test, and ANOVA by SPSS $PC^+$ program. The findings of this study were as follow : 1. The contents & outcomes of home care service 1) The mean age of the subjects was 64.4 years: 58% of them were female. Those who living in Seoul were 83% and the rest of the subjects was living in Kyung-Gi. 2) The subjects who had one diagnosis were 41%. Over 60% of them had the disease of neurologic & sensory system. 3) The mean number of visit was 6. Only one visit was 22%. The mean time of care was 79 minutes. Duration of visit from 31 minutes to 60 minutes were 47 %. The subjects who terminated the visit because of death were 67.3%. 62% of the persons who referred them to the home care service were nurses. 4) The pain after the service was more relieved than before. The amounts of intake, the degree of bed sore, edema & fracture after the service were more improved than before. Health status after the service was improved in general. 5) There were significant differences between initial and last conscious level in tracheostomy care & oxygen inhalation care. There was significant difference between initial and last degree of activity in blood sugar check. 6) There were significant differences on the number of visit in assessment of the status, evaluation & observation, vital sign check, skin care, injection, medication, bed sore care, colostomy care, relaxation therapy for pain relief, patient education, family care, exercise therapy, position change, supply of disinfected equipments and infection control. There were significant differences on visiting time in nasogastric tube care, drainage tube care and oxygen inhalation care. 2. The satisfaction level of home care service 1) 50% were male. Over 60 years of the subjects was 61 %. Those who living in Seoul were 82%. 2) The subjects who had one or two diagnosis were 32% respectively. 55% of the persons who referred them to the home care service were nurses. 3) Total level of satisfaction of home care service was very high. 4) The older the age, the higher the satisfaction level. The larger the number of visit, the higher the satisfaction level. 5) The subjects who were in cloudy state were higher level of satisfaction than in alert or coma state. The subjects whose activity were normal or who needed assistance were higher level of satisfaction than bedridden or immobilized subjects. These findings suggested that the patients had substantial need for posthospital care. They tended to be elderly and to have experienced the wide range of health problems associated with aging, chronicity, including limitations in activities, and other serious health problems. So, the nationwide home care systems beyond the limit of demonstration program by local association and the development of the effective financial system of home based health care are necessary for the clients who are in need of home care.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2023

본 연구의 목적은 사회복지사의 전문역량 및 숙련도에 관한 영국 사례 검토를 통해 한국 사회복지사의 전문역량과 숙련도 기준과 방향을 모색하는 것이다. 특별히 초고령사회를 앞둔 시점에서 노인돌봄과 관련된 영국 사회복지사협회와 보건보호전문직협의회의 역량 및 숙련도 기준 고찰을 통해 한국 노인복지 분야 사회복지사의 숙련도를 제고 하고자 하였다. 영국은 전문역량구조를 제시하므로 사회복지사의 자격 단계별 역량을 구체적으로 제시하여 역량에 기반한 사회복지사 자격취득을 촉진하고 있다. 또한, 보건 및 보호 분야 전문가의 자격 단계별 숙련도 기준을 일반 기준과 세부 기준으로 구분하여 제시하고 있고, 이러한 숙련도 기준에 준거해 돌봄분야 사회복지사의 숙련도를 제시하고 있다. 영국의 사례 고찰을 통해 한국 사회복지사의 역량과 숙련도 제고를 위해 본 연구는 '사회복지 전문직의 공통 역량-사회복지 전문분야의 역량-사회복지사의 숙련도'를 연결하는 표준제시가 필요하며 이를 위해 사회복지교육협회와 사회복지사협회의 역할의 필요성을 제언하였다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.39-51
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• 2003

본 연구는 2002년 5월부터 9월까지 5개월간 경상남도 일개 군 보건소 한방진료실에 내소한 재진 환자를 대상으로 한방진료실 직원이 직접 설문지를 통한 일대일 면접 조사를 실시하였고, 면접 조사를 꺼리는 대상자에 대해서는 자기기입식 방법으로 자료를 수집하여 한방의료 이용 실태와 주민들의 이해도와 만족도를 파악하고 한방진료실을 한방의료서비스 부족지역으로 확대 설치하는 것에 대한 의견을 수렴하는데 그 목적을 두었다. 총 조사 대상자는 163명이었으며 본 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 보건소 한방진료실을 이용하는 주된 대상은 61세 이상이 전체의 65.0%로 과반수 이상을 차지하고 있으며 대상자의 13.5%만이 자신의 건강상태가 좋다고 인지하고 있었다. 둘째, 보건소 한방진료실의 치료법에 대한 사전인식 분석 결과 보건소 한방진료실에서 시행하는 치료법에 대해 올바르게 인식하는 비율은 54.0%로 나타났으며, 특히 침 시술의 경우에는 조사 대상자 모두가 보건소 한방진료실에서 시술한다는 것으로 인식하고 있었다. 셋째, 보건소 한방진료실 이용행태에 관한 분석 결과로는 한의학적인 치료를 받고 싶어서 한방진료실을 찾은 경우가 66.9%로 가장 많았으며 집에서 보건소까지의 소요시간이 1시간에서 2시간 사이까지 많은 시간이 걸린다고 응답한 사람도 9.2%나 되었다. 넷째, 보건소 한방진료실 이용자의 한방보건의료에 대한 요구도를 조사한 결과 이동진료, 금연프로그램, 거동불능자 방문 프로그램 순으로 한방지역보건사업에 대한 요구률이 높았으며 다른 면지역으로의 한방진료실 확대 설치에 대한 요구도 조사에서는 조사 대상자의 73.7%가 한방진료실 확대 설치가 필요하다고 응답하였다. 다섯째, 한방진료실 확대설치 요구도는 학력이 높은 집단, 집과 보건소와의 거리가 멀다고 생각하는 대상자, 치료비에 대한 만족도가 높은 집단에서 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과를 볼 때 농촌지역의 한방진료서비스에 대한 이용도가 높은 것으로 나타났으며 도시지역에 비하여 한방의료자원의 분포가 낙후되어 있는 농촌지역 실정으로 보건소에 한방진료실을 설치하여 시행한 한방진료서비스에 대한 이용자들의 만족도 또한 매우 높다는 것을 파악할 수 있었다. 이러한 주민들의 높은 한방진료서비스에 대한 요구에 부응하기 위해 한방지역보건사업을 합리적으로 실시하고 한방진료실이 설치되어 있지 않은 면지역 보건지소로의 적극적인 확대설치가 적극 검토되어야 할 것이다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.945-953
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• 2014

This study aims to develop protective pants to relieve impact from falls and to present basic data for the development. The survey results are as follows; First, 45% of the respondents were in their 60s and 55% of them were in their over 70s and older. Also, 64% of them have fallen once for the past year and 36% of them have fallen twice or more. The older they were, the more there were those who have fallen twice or more. This indicated the older people has experienced more fall accidents again after a initial fall accident. Second, as per accident situations, the survey showed that fall accidents happened the most in the winter and in the afternoon (12-18 pm). Also, it happened on a street mostly and they were wearing sneakers or hiking boots when they got a hurt slipped in a front or side by missing their step in a walk. The injury areas are mostly knee and ankle. They had the bruises or a sprain in their knee and ankle mostly. The rate of bone fracture was 19.5%. Therefore, the protection area to falls in lower body is the knee. But hip and hip joint should be protected with knee as well because those are usually be broken when it is damaged. Third, approximately 80% of those who were hospitalized for treatment had surgery. Patients who had surgery were rather in their over 70s than in their 60s. The older they were, the more serious their fracture was. The period of hospital or outpatient treatment is more than three weeks in many cases. They responded their health got worse after falls. Aftereffects of accidents were physical discomfort, anxiety and medical costs. Falls to the old makes physical damage, psychological damage, which cause reduced physical activity and the increased cost of health care with economic losses. So it results on a negative impact on the life of the old. Fourth, elderly females were rarely aware of impact protective clothing and they have never purchased such clothing. For impact protective pants, the major consideration was suitable design for their body types. They liked casual style with front or side pockets and simple designs without any patterns or decorations. As per pants materials, they responded that they need functionality, activity and elasticity. Among the functional points, insulation of cloths are considered importantly, so the heat reservance of material in the impact protective pants should be considered carefully.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.345-356
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• 2015

오늘날 의료가 단지 치료라는 개념을 넘어 서비스라는 인식이 확대되면서 의료서비스 소비 주체인 이용자들이 인식하는 의료서비스 질의 중요성은 날로 강조되고 있으며, 일차의료라고 해서 예외는 아니다. 이 연구는 65세이상 노인들이 보건소에서 제공하는 의료서비스의 질을 어떻게 인식하고 있는지 파악하고, 어떠한 요인들이 의료서비스 이용량과 관련성이 있는지를 탐색하고자 하였다. 이 연구는 서울시 보건소를 이용하는 노인들을 대상으로 연구원이 면접조사를 통하여 자료를 수집하였고, 총 307명의 설문자료를 분석하였다. 의료서비스 질은 융합적 요소를 고려하여 접근하였으며, 분석 결과, 이들의 구성항목 중에서 이용시설 및 환경, 환자중심진료, 의사의 전문적 지식 및 기술수준, 그리고 직원 및 간호사의 정서적 지지에 대하여 노인들이 긍정적으로 인식할수록 보건소의 의료이용이 증가하였다. 따라서 보건소가 쾌적하고 편리한 시설환경을 갖추고, 직원 및 간호사들은 이용자들과 원활한 의사소통을 위해 노력하며, 동시에 의사가 환자중심의 전문적인 의료서비스를 제공한다면 보건소의 의료서비스 질과 가치 향상에 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.81-91
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• 2019

최근 우리나라는 급격한 고령화와, 급격한 산업화로 인한 가족의 역할 약화로 고령자 부양 자체의 문제나 부양의 질적 하락과 같은 다양한 문제를 겪고 있다. 이 중 부양의 질적 측면에서 고령자의 정서 지지에 관한 문제가 주요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 이런 정서적 지지에 관한 문제는 다양한 물적 인적 지원을 통해 해결하는 것이 가장 좋은 해결책일 것이다. 그러나, 여러 가지 한계로 인해 자원의 효율적 이용 차원의 접근이 시도되고 있으며 그중 디지털 기술의 융합을 통한 지원 노력에 주목할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 고령화 현상으로 인한 고령자 수발 인력난의 문제와 수발 서비스의 질적 하락 문제 중 정서 측면의 문제에 주목하고, 디지털 기술의 융합을 통해 정서 측면을 지원하기 위해 디지털 기술이 어떠한 형태로 접목되었는지 사례를 분석하였다. 그중 스마트 스피커를 통한 고령자 지원의 가능성을 확인하고 스마트 스피커를 통한 정서적 지원을 제안하였다. 또한 중년 고령자를 대상으로 스마트 스피커의 사용성 평가와 함께 인뎁스 인터뷰를 진행함으로써 중년 고령자의 정서 지지를 위한 스마트 스피커 대화체계 가이드라인을 제안하였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 고령자의 정서 지지를 위한 스마트 스피커 개발 시 대화체계 디자인을 위한 기초자료가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대 된다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.179-194
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• 1991

Despite its universal coverage of health insurance, the rural health insurance program(RHIP) stands at the crossroads in Korea. The RHIP has weaknesses in stability of financing, problems of inequities in the provision of health services and has suffered from high cost of running the program. The author has analyzed these problems from the perspective of health insurance policy and presented several options for improvement. First of all, this study urged the importance of a firm Governmental commitment of RHIP with the 50% subsidization of contributions as the Government had promised, instead of the current 40%. This can be justified from the 20% subsidization by the Government for the contributions of private school teachers and their dependents, who belong to richer segments of the population. Second, various cost containment measures ought to be sought curbing the rising demand for medical through strengthening health education and increasing individual responsibility, and tightening the claim review process. Third, this study requires the Government to run a demonstration project on the introduction of case payment system for primary health care. Fourth introducing an income-related cost sharing scheme is another possibility. Reforming the cost sharing formula for large medical expenditures is recommendable for a beginning. This measure can take the form of tax credit for medical expenditures of the poor. Fifth, the degree of financial adjustment among health insurance plans should be levelled up for enhancing stability of RHIP and social solidarity. Sixth, health policy should be redirected toward development of rural health resources and higher priority should be put on relieving difficulties in access to care. Seventh. the insurance plan owned-hospital needs to be developed or provision of health services in the medically underserved areas, and the need of such facilities is particularly acute for geriatric care, rehabilitation and renal dialysis, etc. Eighth, more generous insurance benefits are required of the elderly who are suffering the most : elimination of the maximum 180 days of benefit period and provision of glasses and artificial dentures, etc. Ninth. the economies of scale principle is working for the operating expenses of regional self-employed insurance plan. Thus, measures should be instituted to pursue an optimum size of health insurance plans. Lastly, excessive dependence on exclusion items is an evil so that some radical remedies are urgently required to cut them.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.35-50
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• 2001

This study was conducted for the evaluation of the effects of singing program combined with physical exercise on the physiologic changes, perception function and degree of depression. The subjects were the members of elderly women's glee club in D care center for the elderly, who have been singing for more than 6 months. 30 members were allocated to study group and 30 to control group. The singing program designed for both physical therapy and music therapy was consisted of initial physical exercise, singing art songs and classical song and the finishing physical exercise. This program was performed twice a week and about forth minutes was consumed for one session. We checked the heart rate, peripheral arterial oxygen saturation, perception function and degree of depression before and after the program. We used a pulse oxymeter to check the heart rate to oxygen saturation and a questionnaire for the evaluation of perception function and degree of depression. We need SPSS program for data analysis. The results of the investigated personnel complying with general characteristics were analyzed by frequency, two groups by t-test, data before and after the program by paired t-test, respectively. The results were as follows. 1) Heart rate after the program was significantly lower than that before program in test group(p<0.05). 2) Peripheral oxygen saturation after the program was significantly higher than that before the program(p<0.05). 3) Ability to match the right sign with a certain predetermined number was improved after the program. The frequency of wrong matching the sign with number before program was 30. But the frequency was decreased to 8 after the program. 4) Ability to calculate was improved after the program. The frequency of wrong calculation before the program was $1.10{\pm}1.94$. But the frequency after the program was decreased to $0.97{\pm}1.84$. 5) The degree of depression after the program($2.07{\pm}0.49$) was significantly lower than that before program(p<0.001). These results show that singing program combined with physical exercise improves the oxygen delivery to peripheral circulation, stability of heart function, the perception function(calculating and matching ability) and decreases the degree of depression. In conclusion, singing program combined with physical exercise can be used for the effective measure to improve the health of elderly and prevent dementia.

• 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.