• 가정과삶의질연구
• /
• 제25권1호
• /
• pp.59-75
• /
• 2007

This review synthesizes research during the past 15 years on the family relations of older persons. After discussing two background issues-sociodemographic changes of later life families and the status of the elderly-the following topics are addressed; relationships between aged parents and adult children, couple relationships, grandparents' relationship with their grandchildren and sibling relationships. Family relationships are vital support systems providing emotional and instrumental support in the lives of older persons. Mutual assistance and affection among family members were found to be common characteristics. Although research on family gerontology has increased in quantify, there are feater needs to develop qualitative, longitudinal and theory grounded studies to capture the rich complexity of family life. Other challenges and suggestions for future research on older persons' family relationship are presented.

• 성인간호학회지
• /
• 제24권5호
• /
• pp.454-465
• /
• 2012

Purpose: The aim of this study was to understand the nurses' experiences of caring for demented older persons in geriatric in care facilities. Methods: The subjects were ten nurses employed in geriatric care facilities. Open in-depth interviews were used to collect data from January, 2010 to October, 2010. The Colaizzi phenomenological method was used for data analysis. Results: The experiences of nurses' caring for patients with dementia were divided into the following six categories: 'new encounter', 'understanding of intention and satisfying', 'dilemma of caring', 'contriving of comfort', 'comprehensive coordinator', and 'being present'. There were 15 clusters of themes. The subjects stated that the best caring for the demented older persons were 'encounter, knowing, and being with them'. Conclusion: Nurses' caring could improve the quality of life for demented older patients in geriatric care facility. These results suggest that institutional, administrational strategies and schemes need to cluster around the relationship with patients who would include encounter knowing and being with them.

• 한국노년학
• /
• 제36권3호
• /
• pp.765-783
• /
• 2016

본 연구는 한국노인의 사회적 연계망 자체를 좀 더 심도있게 이해하기 위하여 2014년도 노인실태조사자료(65세 이상 10,279명)를 활용하여 관계망 크기, 연계와의 접촉 빈도, 연계에 대한 친밀도를 중심으로 잠재프로파일분석(LPA)을 실시하였다. 그 결과 노인의 사회적 연계망은 고립형(11.6%), 가족의례형(17.7%), 가족친밀형(23.6%), 제한적 다층친밀형(28.4%), 다층형(18.8%)의 다섯 개 유형으로 도출되었다. 또한 도출된 잠재집단 유형별 특징을 비교하였고, 사회적 관계망 유형에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하기 위한 다항로지스틱회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 고립형 노인의 3/4은 여성이며 독거가구 비율이 약 절반을 차지하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 상대적으로 평균연령이 높고, 도시지역에 거주하는 노인, 신체적 제한이 있는 노인, 사회적 지위가 낮은 직종에 종사한 노인이 고립형에 속할 가능성이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 반면 다층형의 경우 여성보다는 남성노인이, 연령이 낮을수록, 학력이 높을수록, 전문 관리 사무직에 종사한 노인일수록 다층형에 속할 가능성이 높았다. 한편 가족의례형과 가족친밀형은 배우자 혹은 자녀를 중심으로 연계망이 형성되어 있고, 노인부부가구의 비중이 높다는 공통점을 가지고 있으나, 가족의례형은 상대적으로 여성 비중이 높다는 특징이 있다. 그리고 제한적 다층친밀형은 배우자보다는 자녀와 친구 이웃과의 연계망의 크기, 빈도, 친밀도가 다층형 다음으로 높은 집단으로 여성노인 및 저학력이면서 농림어업에 종사한 비중이 높게 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과에 기초하여 노년기의 사회적 연계망 유형의 다양성이 갖는 학술적 및 정책적 함의와 향후 연구방향을 논의하였다.

• 한국노년학
• /
• 제32권4호
• /
• pp.1147-1162
• /
• 2012

우리나라 법은 고연령자(高年齡者)를 지칭하는 용어로 여러 개를 혼용해 왔다. 본 연구는 법에서 고연령자는 누구이며, 고연령자를 어떤 사람으로 상정하고 어떻게 범주화하고 있는지에 관한 물음을 풀어보고, 고연령자를 지칭하는 명명이 갖는 의미를 비판적으로 고찰해보려고 한다. 2011년 10월 20일 현재 시행중인 법령과 1948년 7월 17일 대한민국헌법 제정 이후부터 현재까지 시행되었던 법령을 검토대상으로 삼았다. 연구 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 도출하였다. 법규정상에서 고연령자에 대한 명명은 노쇠자, 노인, 고령자, 노령자, 노약자 등 다양한 용어를 통해서 이루어져왔다. 이러한 명명이 고연령자 집단을 연령을 기준으로 구분함으로써 이루어진 것은 아니다. 법에서 가장 빈번하게 사용하고 있는 '노인'과 '고령자' 명칭을 살펴본 결과, 현재 우리사회의 고연령자에 대한 인식과 의미구성의 차이를 찾아볼 수 있었다. 사회적 보호 대상으로서 부정적 의미가 내포된 기표로서 '노인'이라는 명칭이 사용되고, 생산성을 지닌 존재로서의 기표는 상대적으로 중립적인 평가를 받는 '고령자'라는 명칭이 주로 사용되는 경향을 통해서 고연령자 집단에 대한 사회적 가치 부여를 내비친다고 할 수 있다.

• 한국안전학회지
• /
• 제34권1호
• /
• pp.98-107
• /
• 2019

In the case of a disaster, the damage caused by the disability vulnerability of persons with disabilities is significantly increased, discussing about a problem for the protection of the vulnerable class. However, until now policy, technology and response guidelines for disaster and safety have been focused on the general public. Therefore, it is necessary to develop customized support technology for disaster and safety considering vulnerable characteristics of vulnerable class. Firstly, it is necessary to prepare draft improvement proposal of act and support system related disaster and safety for persons with disabilities and older persons. So, this study was carried out analysis of act, policy and support system on disaster and safety for persons with disabilities and older persons of domestic and overseas in order to draw implication. Furthermore, we established direction for improvement of act and policy on disaster and safety for persons with disabilities based on the analysis, and suggested draft improvement proposal.

• 한국사회복지학
• /
• 제46권
• /
• pp.319-348
• /
• 2001

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the buffering effect of social welfare services on the relationship between the level of older persons' impairment and burden experienced by the family caregivers. It also assessed the level of caregiving burden as well as the effect of both older person's impairment and the characteristics of the caregivers on burden. The survey data collected from 150 community residing family caregivers was used for analyses. Findings are as follows. First, the caregivers are more burdened in the deterioration of mental health, scarce time for oneself, and the suffering of social life than in other areas of burden. Second, the more severe the physical and the mental impairment of the elder, the more burden the caregivers experience. The caregivers' characteristics such as the worse mental health, the lower level of attachment to the elder, the longer caregiving hours are also related to the higher level of caregiving burden. Third, the caregivers' use of adult day care and respite care services buffer the relationship between the level of impairment of older persons and the caregiving burden. However, social work counselling, visiting nurse, homemaker services do not have such buffering effects. Among informal support, instrumental support buffers the relationship between the elder's physical impairment and burden, while emotional support buffers the relationship between the elder's mental impairment and burden. According to the results, implication for social welfare services and practice methods for the family caregivers was discussed.

• 말소리와 음성과학
• /
• 제6권1호
• /
• pp.119-125
• /
• 2014

Many studies have reported an age-related decline in the ability to spell words correctly. The aim of this study was to investigate the deterioration on retrieving orthographic knowledge in 64 normal elderly Korean persons. The subjects were 64 in total: they were composed of 22 persons in their 50s, 20 persons in their 60s, and 22 persons in their 70s or older. We instructed them to write from a dictation of 60 words stimuli (20 regular words, 20 irregular words, 20 nonwords). Older adults made more errors than younger adults, and the age-related decline in performance was greater for irregular than regular and nonwords. With respect to the error pattern in the irregular words, the subjects showed more phonological plausible errors than phonological implausible errors. The number of self-correction was high in nonwords. Based on the results, we found that aging differentially affects the retrieval of orthographic knowledge on regular, irregular and nonwords.

• 한국환경보건학회지
• /
• 제45권3호
• /
• pp.267-272
• /
• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine effect of anxiety about climate change on life satisfaction and mediating effect of subjective health status between anxiety about climate change and life satisfaction among older persons. Methods: This study used data from Statistics Korea 2018 Social Survey and a total of 7,870 older persons aged 65 and over were selected for the analyses. Descriptive statistics was used to identify characteristics of study participants and correlation analysis was used to examine the associations among anxiety about climate change, subjective health status, and life satisfaction. Also, multiple regression analyses were performed to examine effect of anxiety about climate change on life satisfaction and mediating effect of subjective health status between anxiety about climate change and life satisfaction. Results: Study findings show that anxiety about climate change had significant effect on life satisfaction. A higher level of anxiety decreased the level of life satisfaction of the elderly. A higher level of anxiety about climate change also decreased the level of subjective health status. In addition, the effect of anxiety about climate change on life satisfaction was partially mediated by subjective health status. Conclusions: Findings of the study suggest that the needs of older population should be considered in designing policy and interventions on climate change.

• 한국의류학회지
• /
• 제31권6호
• /
• pp.848-858
• /
• 2007

의복의 자아 근접성 개념을 기반으로 한 여러 연령층의 설문조사 결과를 바탕으로 하여 2004년에 Sontag과 Lee가 객관적 측정도구, 의복의 자아 근접성 척도(PCS Scale)를 개발하였다. Sontag과 Lee는 24-항목을 포함한 4-요인으로 구성된 PCS 척도를 청소년층을 대상으로 타당화 하였다. 본 연구는 그들 연구의 연계로 초기 6-요인으로 구성되었던 PCS 척도를 노년층에 적용하여 19-항목을 포함한 3-요인으로 구성된 PCS 척도를 타당화 한다. 65세 이상의 노인층이 본 연구의 표본집단으로 설정되었고 임의 표집방법을 이용, 미국 전역 1,700명의 노년 표본이 표본조사회사로부터 구입되었다. 2004년 11월 설문조사가 시작되어 2005년 2월에 총 250개의 이용 가능한 설문자료가 수집되었다(15.6%의 응답 비율). PCS 척도의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 Sontag과 Lee의 연구에서 사용한 요인분석과 신뢰도분석을 동일하게 3단계 절차로 노인층을 대상으로 실시하였다. AMOS 5.0 을 사용한 3단계 신뢰도 분석 결과 19-항목을 포함한 3-요인으로 구성된 PCS척도의 타당성이 노인층을 대상으로 검증되었다. 노인층의 PCS척도는 다음의 3-요인으로 구성된다: 1) 의복이 자아 구성 과정에 미치는 영향(PCS 요인 1-2-3의 병합), 2) 의복이 평가적이고 정서적인 자존 형성과정에 미치는 영향(PCS 요인 4-5의 병합), 그리고 3) 의복이 신체상과 신체에 쏟는 정신 집중정도에 미치는 영향(PCS 요인 6). Sontag과 Lee가 초기적으로 가설한 6-요인 PCS 척도는 청소년층과 노인층을 대상으로 한 어느 연구에서도 검증되지 않았다. 더 나아가, 이들이 검증한 청소년층의 4-요인 PCS 척도도 노인층을 대상으로 한 연구에서 검증되지 않았다. 이는 노인들의 자아 구성 이젊은 층보다 더 통괄/복합적인 것에서 기인된다고 보인다. 이 글은 PCS 척도의 앞으로의 연구방향과 이용방향을 끝으로 마무리 지어 진다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
• /
• 제14권1호
• /
• pp.7-12
• /
• 2008

We examined the prevalence of sarcopenia and age-related changes in body composition in Korean older persons. Community dwelling 77 men and 65 women($60{\sim}88\;yr$) were recruited for this study. Fat-free mass and the percent body fat were determined using bioelectrical impedance analysis. Isometric grip strength was measurement using grip strength dynamometer. Serum levels of fasting glucose, total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, and triglyceride were assayed. The prevalence of sarcopenia was found to increase with aging (men in their sixties 82.6%, seventies 96.6% and eighties 100%, and women in their sixties 47.4%, seventies 63%). In both gender groups, handgrip strength was inversely correlated with age and positively correlated with height, lean mass, and fat free mass. Better handgrip strength was related with higher weight in the men and with lower heart rate in the women. Fat free mass, age, and gender were found to be independent factors significantly associated with handgrip strength in the multivariate analysis. In summary, results of the present study suggest that handgrip strength is well associated with age, gender, and fat free mass and the prevalence of sarcopenia is increased with age and is exceeded by 40% among Korean persons older than 60 years.