• 제목/요약/키워드: Long-term Aging

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A Study on the Problems and Improvement of Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly (노인장기요양보험제도의 문제점 및 개선방안에 관한 고찰)

  • Ahn, Myung-Sun;Park, Joo-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • 제19권8호
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    • pp.525-534
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    • 2019
  • Korea is facing one of the fastest aging population problems in the world due to the extension of life expectancy and low birth rates due to economic development and the development of health care. It has become difficult to take care of elderly people in need of long-term care at home, and social problems such as dementia and the increase in stroke cases are serious problems. The government is enacting and implementing the Long-Term Care Insurance Act for the purpose of improving the quality of life for senior citizens subject to long-term care and alleviating the burden of family support in order to solve such social structure and problems for senior citizens. However, as a result of the implementation of the long-term care insurance system for the elderly, the privatization of the facilities and the disorder are causing widespread requests for public accountability of the services and the enhancement of the quality of the facilities. In addition, various arrangements are needed for the production of low-wage medical care workers, tasks for quality improvement, problems regarding financing methods, and so on. In order to maintain and develop the long-term care insurance system for the elderly, the government will consider seeking ways to improve the legal and institutional aspects according to changes in the social environment of the age, as well as seeking mental and psychological measures for the stabilization of old life as well as physical health.

Awareness and using status on long-term care insurance and insurance benefits (노인 장기요양보험 이용실태 및 서비스내용에 대한 인식)

  • Jung, Jae-Yeon;Kim, Soo-Hwa;Kim, Young-Kyung;Ahn, Se-Youn;Yoo, Eun-Mi;Choi, Boo-Keun;Hwang, Yoon-Sook;Han, Su-Jin
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • 제16권3호
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    • pp.373-381
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate the awareness toward use and service contents of long term care for the elderly. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 296 adults from August 13 to October 20, 2014. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects, awareness toward long term care insurance for the elderly, awareness toward long term oral health care services, use of long term care service and use intention for the long term care insurance. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0 program. Results: Those who were aware of the long term care insurance accounted for 55.4 percent. Approximately 50 percent of the respondents recognized long term care service items, home visit care, home visit bathing, and home visit nursing. Most of the respondents had information of long term care services by way of mass media and direct contact. Only 13.4 percent of the respondents were aware of the oral health service in the long term care insurance. The subjects were aware of denture cleaning, oral cleaning and oral health education out of oral health service in order; and oral health services that needed to be offered were denture cleaning, oral health education and professional toothbrushing. They reported that dental hygienists were the most important manpower that offered the efficient oral health care services. They answered that professional manpower and financial support are required for oral health services. The positive thinking to long term care insurance accounted for 89.2 percent and 91.3 percent had use intention for oral health services. Conclusions: Many elderly people have mastication or dysphagic problems due to systemic diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to announce the long term care insurance and long term care services for the elderly people.

Case Study on Network of Manpower-training related to Long-term care insurance system - Focus on Education management about Long-term care-giver of Yong Do Gu in Busan city - (장기요양보험제도에 따른 인력양성의 네트워크 사례연구 - 부산시 영도구 요양보호사 교육운영 사례 -)

  • Nam, Hee Eun;Lim, Chang Ho;Ryu, Hwang Gun;Bae, Sung Kwon;Kim, Sang Hee;Kim, Sun Hee;Lee, Jae Hee;Kim, Hwang Eun
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.125-136
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    • 2008
  • Government came to enforce long-term care insurance system in preparation for the rapid aging society. Whether this system is successful or not depends on the professionalism of long-term care-givers who are professional population in charge of care service. Currently in the early stage of enforcement, such problems as a race cutting fee resulted from numerical increase of educational facilities, insolvent operation, degradation of education level resulted from unprofessional instructor, are pointed out. As a mean of manpower-training on long-term care insurance system, this study is to research public-private-university network model of the Academy of Continuing Education attached to Ko Sin University which is the case of Yong Do Gu Busan city. Networking between the vision and development strategy of Yong Do Gu on continuing education city, education system on community manpower-training supported by Ko Sin University, and service field of welfare for the elderly can not only contribute to the professionalism of long-term care-givers but also play an ideal role in manpower-utilization and arrangement of community. Through this networking, high quality of education level and circumstance, using the existing infra, manpower-training and utilization for continuing education of Yong Do Gu can be accomplished. Additionally, the connection with facilities related with welfare for the elderly can contribute to professionalism and accountability of manpower-networking.

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The Correspondence of the Demented Patient's Desired Service with Received Service Type and Its Affecting Factors (치매노인의 서비스 희망과 이용의 일치 여부에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Park, Chong-Yon;Kang, Im-Ok;Lee, Sang-Yi;Seo, Su-Ra;Suh, Nam-Kyu;Park, Hyeung-Keun
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.52-67
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    • 2007
  • Korean government is preparing the long-term care financing and delivery system in order to cope with rapid population aging. The system should be designed to provide demented patients with an appropriate services that the patients want to take, and considered to be necessary for them. In this regard, this study aims to analyse empirically a relationship between the types of long-term care services that demented patients wanted to take and they actually received during 2004. The caregivers of 609 dementia patients, who were randomly selected in a manner of proportional allocation from a nationwide claim database of the Korean National Health Insurance Corporation, were interviewed in September, 2005. Independent variables include socio-demographic characteristics, Activities of Daily Living(ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living(IADL). To explore the correspondence of the types of long-term care services that demented patients wanted to take and that they actually received, and its affecting factors, we conducted chi-square test and logistic regression analysis. Main findings are as follows. First, while only 20% of study subjects wanted home services as a long-term care services, those who wanted to use the long-term care facilities and general hospital were 37%, 43% respectively. Second, the correspondence rate was just 38% on average, and extremely low in the demented patients who wanted to use long-term care facilities. Third, the demented patients who resided in urban areas and received relatively high level of education showed high correspondence rate. Fourth, the high ADL score was closely related to low correspondence rate.

An Efficient Chloride Ingress Model for Long-Term Lifetime Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Under Realistic Climate and Exposure Conditions

  • Nguyen, Phu Tho;Bastidas-Arteaga, Emilio;Amiri, Ouali;Soueidy, Charbel-Pierre El
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.199-213
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    • 2017
  • Chloride penetration is among the main causes of corrosion initiation in reinforced concrete (RC) structures producing premature degradations. Weather and exposure conditions directly affect chloride ingress mechanisms and therefore the operational service life and safety of RC structures. Consequently, comprehensive chloride ingress models are useful tools to estimate corrosion initiation risks and minimize maintenance costs for RC structures placed under chloride-contaminated environments. This paper first presents a coupled thermo-hydro-chemical model for predicting chloride penetration into concrete that accounts for realistic weather conditions. This complete numerical model takes into account multiple factors affecting chloride ingress such as diffusion, convection, chloride binding, ionic interaction, and concrete aging. Since the complete model could be computationally expensive for long-term assessment, this study also proposes model simplifications in order to reduce the computational cost. Long-term chloride assessments of complete and reduced models are compared for three locations in France (Brest, Strasbourg and Nice) characterized by different weather and exposure conditions (tidal zone, de-icing salts and salt spray). The comparative study indicates that the reduced model is computationally efficient and accurate for long-term chloride ingress modeling in comparison to the complete one. Given that long-term assessment requires larger climate databases, this research also studies how climate models may affect chloride ingress assessment. The results indicate that the selection of climate models as well as the considered training periods introduce significant errors for mid- and long- term chloride ingress assessment.

The Tendency of Elderly Patients Who Transferred from Long-term Care Hospital to Emergency Room, 2014-2019 (요양병원에서 응급실로 전입된 노인환자의 경향분석, 2014-2019)

  • Ko, Sung-keun;Kim, Seonji;Lee, Tae Young;Lee, Jin-Hee
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • 제32권2호
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    • pp.173-179
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    • 2022
  • Background: This study aimed to identify patterns of elderly patients who transferred from long-term care hospitals to emergency rooms and provide the evidence of emergency medical systems to prepare for a super-aged society. Methods: The data source was the National Emergency Department Information System database from January 2014 to December 2019 in Korea. We performed a cross-sectional study among elderly patients (≥65 years) who transferred from a long-term care hospital to an emergency room. Trend analysis was conducted by year. Results: We identified 225,765 elderly patients who were transferred from long-term care hospitals to emergency rooms between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2019. The proportion of the study population and their mean age were recently increased (p<0.001, respectively). The proportion of elderly patients being re-transferred (p=0.049) and the patients re-transferred to long-term care hospitals is significantly increased (p=0.005). Conclusion: The establishment of efficient emergency medical services for an aging society is important. It is necessary to develop a healthcare network with the government, long-term care hospitals, and medical institutions in the community suitable for preventing disease deterioration.

Aging Analysis of Catenary Wires in Accordance with Temperature Changes for a Long Period of Time (장기간 온도변화에 따른 전차선로 전선류의 노후도 분석)

  • Cho, Nam-Hee;Oh, Wan-Shik;Kim, Jae-moon
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • 제65권9호
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    • pp.1590-1596
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, catenary wires were analyzed aging through the experiment about a new product and a test sample in accordance with temperature changes from long-term use. In case of the contact wire, the maximum load was reduced within 7% and the tensile strength showed a reduced within 6.7% compared with a new reference standard $110mm^2$. 19 Strands of messenger wire have a little more than a standard value, but result data on tensile test were less than the reference value about stranded wire. Also parts among 49 strands of dropper was found to be smaller than the reference value and it appeared greatly increasing intensity as toward the center of the strand.

Flexural Behaviors of GFRP Rebars Reinforced Concrete Beam under Accelerated Aging Environments (GFRP Rebar 보강 콘크리트 보의 급속노화환경에서의 휨 거동에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Yeon-Ho;Choi, Yeol
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2013
  • The use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcing bars in concrete structures has been increased as an alternative of steel reinforcement which has shown greater vulnerability to corrosion problem. However, the long-term performance of concrete members with FRP reinforcement is still questioned in comparison to the used of steel reinforcement. This study presents the results of an experimental study on the long-term behaviors of GFRP (glass fiber reinforced polymer) bar reinforced concrete beams after exposed to accelerated aging in an environmental chamber with temperature of $46^{\circ}C$ ($115^{\circ}F$) and 80% of relative humidity up to 300 days. The objectives of this research was to compare strength degradation and change of ductility between GFRP reinforced concrete beams and steel reinforcement beams after accelerated aging. Two types (wrapped and sand-coated surface) of GFRP bars and steel were reinforced. in concrete beams. Test results show that the failure modes of GFRP bar reinforced concrete beams are very similar with traditional RC beams, and the change of load-carrying capacity of steel reinforcing concrete beam is greater than that of GFRP bar reinforcing concrete beam under the accelerated aging. Test result also shows that the use of GFRP reinforcing in concrete could be introduced more brittle failure than that of steel reinforcing for practical application. The deformability factor up to compression failures indicates no significant variation before and after exposure of accelerated aging.

A Combined Aging Test Facility for Evaluating an Aging Characteristics of Distribution Polymer Insulators (배전용 폴리머애자 열화특성 평가를 위한 복합열화 시험장치 구축)

  • Lee, Byung-Sung;Han, Jae-Hong;Kim, Chan-Young;Yoon, Tae-Sang
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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    • pp.1948-1950
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    • 2000
  • Polymeric composite insulators have been in use for outdoor insulation. However, our knowledge about their long-term performance in an outdoor environment is still very limited. Especially, these insulators are subjected to the environmental stress such as ultraviolet radiation, electrical stress, mechanical load, etc.. Hence, in this paper, we simulated the factors having influence on aging of polymer insulators using the combined aging test chamber. In order to evaluate an aging characteristics with time, we measured leakage current on these insulators to make out the degree of aging.

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A Study on the Partial Discharge Phase Properties with Branch Type Eleotrical Tree Growth in XLPE Cable Insulation (XLPE 케이블 절연체에서의 가지형 전기트리 성장에 따른 부분방전 위상 특성 연구)

  • Gang, Dong-Sik;Seon, Jong-Ho;Kim, Wi-Yeong;Lee, Hong-Sik;Park, Jeong-Hu
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • 제51권5호
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    • pp.213-221
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    • 2002
  • In order to improve the reliability of XLPE cables, it is necessary to find the useful diagnostic parameter according to long term aging. This paper described the change of partial discharge(PD) phase Properties of XLPE cable insulation with branch type electrical tree degradation. for long term aging. To understand the PD Properties with $\phi$ -q-n distributed shape of XLPE insulation, specimens were prepared by 22.9㎸ distribution cable and made in a type of block(16${\times}$16${\times}$3[mm]). Ogura needles having tip radius of l0${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ were inserted into each block pieces. The measuring system was consisted of PD detector, digitizer for digital conversion, VXI system for signal processing. The PD properties of the specimens were measured from initiation of tree to breakdown and their characteristics were analyzed. We analyzed the relationship between electrical properties(PD Quantity, PD initiation angle, PD extinction angle, PD occurrence angle : (PD extinction angle - PD initiation angle)) and the normalized aging rate. We found PD parameter, PD initiation angle and occurrence angle, which are a useful diagnostic parameter in estimating the branch type electrical tree for XLPE insulation condition.