• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2014

This study found a relationship between the characteristics of the elderly with disabilities and extra health care monthly costs caused by disability and suggests methods for effectively managing health care spending of the elderly with disabilities. This study used data from the 2011 Survey on the Disabled conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. The results of the analysis indicate that the relations between the socio-demographic characteristics of the elderly with disabilities and extra health care monthly costs caused by disability of the elderly are influenced by factors such as gender, age, members of the household, average monthly income and type of health insurance. Elderly people with disabilities spend too much for their medical care. To solve this problem, the government needs to find a variety of policy approaches to improve administrative procedure, establish a medical delivery system and enhance health care services.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2014

Purpose: This study is to propose direction for healing environment design in hospital architecture considering the characteristics of elderly patients. The primary goal of a public hospital is providing cheap health care and quality service chance to the underprivileged and elderly in the dead zone. Compared to the rapid increase of the aged population and chronic diseases, Ministry of Health & Welfare is currently planning model of health promotion hospital in development plans of local based public hospital. Due to the increased elderly medical expenses, elderly patients' high utilization is considered. Methods: The literature on the design factors of healing environments were investigated. based on this, analyzed drawings of surveyed hospitals ward in architectural characteristics and observe and evaluate directly healing environment design through field surveys. Results: The design of hospital environment affects patient's therapeutic effect. There is no any official formula for hospital design but environment that architect create could be a big part of the healing process. To increase the quality of the environment, apply the characteristic factors and harmonize well as a human-centered healing environment. Implications: Healing environment design for the elderly is first necessary condition due to high proportion of elderly patients.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.74-86
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• 2020

Horse meat is nutritionally adequate to the elderly, but it has a comparatively hard texture in contrast to most of the food. In practice, the meat intake in the elderly is generally bated because the relatively difficult texture of the meat can diminish mastication. Thus, strategies are being developed to produce meat products remanding detracted mastication exertion and possibly exalt ingestion and nutritional stand, in the elderly. Hence, the effects of enzymes on textural characteristics of horse meat were studied, because they have well-known favorable efficacy on the meat tenderness by causing important demotion of the myo-fibrillar protein and collagen. Four treatments namely, papain, bromelin, pepsin, and pancreatin, alongside one control were invoked to the horse meat. Their effects on the texture parameters were determined. All the above enzymatic treatments significantly reduced hardness and resilience (p<0.001). These results present opportunities to produce essential fatty acids fortified horse meat with soft texture and satisfied technological characteristics. The intake of the essential fatty acids intensified horse meat could aid the elderly to get their aimed essential fatty acid demands. Results also suggest that horse meat tenderized through enzymatic processing stand for auspicious options for the comprehension of texture-revised diets in the elderly population.

• 한국임상보건과학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.816-824
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• 2017

Purpose. This study was classified into normal and demented elderly through K-MMSE. The purpose of this study was to analyze gait characteristics of normal elderly and demented peoples using GAITRite walking system. Methods. The subjects of this study were selected as elderly people receiving home visit physical therapy. An independent t-test was conducted to verify the statistical significance of the time-space variables of the elderly with dementia. Results. Step time(p=0.041), cycle time(p=0.037), distance(p=0.024), and cadence(p=0.048) were significantly shorter in the normal elderly than in the demented elderly on flat place. The mean age was significantly longer in normal elderly than in elderly persons with dementia. Step time(p=0.022), cycle time(p=0.023), distance(p=0.019), and cadence(p=0.015) were significantly shorter in the mat walking. The mean age was significantly longer in normal elderly than in elderly patients with dementia. Stretch time, cycle time, distance, and hair support time were significantly shorter in the mat walking. The mean age of the elderly was significantly longer than that of the elderly with dementia. The spinal support time, which is a spatial variable, was significantly shorter in the normal elderly than in the demented elderly. Conclusions. It compares the various gait characteristics of the normal and demented elderly people, thereby increasing the walking ability of the elderly person more effectively. This study should be utilized as basic data for preventing fall-down.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2021

Purpose: Problems related to the elderly's daily life, such as social isolation and absence of a place to go, are already widely recognized, but there are few domestic studies or support policies for this, and the elderly leisure welfare facilities provided by the state do not fully support the elderly's daily life. There are studies related to the elderly's neighborhood environment and facilities, which can be seen as the third place for the elderly in Korea, but these are mostly quantitative studies. In order to talk about the third place for daily support for the elderly in Korea, a detailed study of the use cases of the third place in Korea is needed. This study analyzes the third place of the elderly in Korea and discovers the characteristics and components. Based on the detailed analysis of the third place of the elderly, the characteristics of the third place of the elderly in Korea and the elements constituting it are found to be able to represent the specific necessary environment of the third place of the elderly. Methods: The research targets include 'A Mill' (located in Jungnang-gu, Seoul), and 'Roadside in front of Villa B'(located in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul), 'C-dong roadside park'(located in Dobong-gu, Seoul) within the range of repeated observations and meetings among the places used as a third place for the elderly was selected. The site survey consisted of in-depth interviews, observational surveys, and participatory observations. In-depth interviews were held for a total of 5 months, from October to December 2019 and from April to May 2020. Results: As a result, a total of 11 characteristics (adjacent to the residence, an open place, an independent space, a comfortable place to stay, a pleasant space, safety is guaranteed, a place that has been operated for a long time, a place that can be used autonomously, a place where social exchange occurs, No financial burden, fun activities) was discovered. Implications: This study is significant in that unlike the existing studies focusing on the use behavior of established institutions or facilities, the elderly identified the necessary environment through their own created places.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2011

In this research, three topics were studied for the elderly. The first was the elderly's error characteristics for tracing task and the second was for depth perception. The characteristics were compared with the young's. Twenty two old people and twenty two young people participated in the tracing experiment, respectively. In the depth perception experiment, twenty three old people and twenty two young people participated. A depth perception apparatus and a tracing one were used in the experiment. In the depth perception error, a significant difference was not detected on gender. However significant differences were detected with age and viewing distance. In the tracing error, significant difference was detected with age, also. The third experiment was push-button operation and fifteen old people participated in the experiment. As the result, operation time error was increased with the button size and the moving distance. The result of this study will be able to be considered in its user interface design to reduce the elderly's error while using a product.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.467-479
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• 2018

본 연구는 주거의 경제 및 지역적 특성이 노인의 삶의 만족도와 자아존중감에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 한국복지패널 11차 조사 자료를 이용하였으며, 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 주거의 경제적 특성인 주택가격, 가구원당 주거면적 및 총생활비대비 광열수도비 비중은 노인의 삶의 만족도와 자아존중감에 유의한 영향을 미치고, 노인의 자아존중감은 삶의 만족도에 대한 주거의 경제적 특성의 영향을 매개하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 주거의 지역적 특성인 거주 지역은 노인의 삶의 만족도와 자아존중감에 유의한 영향을 미치고, 노인의 자아존중감은 삶의 만족도에 대한 주거의 지역적 특성의 영향을 매개하는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 주거의 경제 및 지역적 특성 등과 관련한 노인주거복지정책은 노인의 자아존중감을 매개로 하여서도 노인의 심리적 복지감인 삶의 만족도에 영향을 미치므로, 주거 빈곤 및 주거불평등 등으로 인해 노인의 삶의 만족도와 자아존중감에 부정적 영향을 미치지 않도록 정책적인 고려를 하여야 할 것이다.

• 벤처혁신연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.75-93
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• 2023

4차 산업 코로나19의 진전으로 비대면 접촉이 활성화되면서 정부의 민원서비스도 급격히 이러한 현상을 반영하고 있다. 하지만 디지털 문화에서 비교적 소외 되고 있는 고령자에게는 상당히 부담스럽고 오히려 불편하게 다가오는 경우도 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 정부민원통합서비스인 '정부24'를 고령자들이 이용함에 있어서 영향을 미치는 요인들을 실증적으로 분석하고자 했다. 이를 위해 고령자의 특성과 서비스의 특성에 주목하였다. 고령자의 특성 요인으로 인지적 특성, 심리적 특성, 신체적 특성을 도출하였고 서비스의 특성으로 '정부24' 이용 시 유용성, 용이성, 보안성 그리고 정부의 지원을 도출하였다. 이러한 요인들이 정부24 이용의도에 미치는 영향을 실증 분석하였다. 실증 분석을 위해 60대 이상 고령층을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 이중 유효한 250부를 분석의 대상으로 삼았다. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 고령자의 특성중 인지적 특성, 심리적 특성, 신체적 특성은 모두 정부24 이용의도에 유의한 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 유용성, 용이성, 정부지원은 '정부24' 이용의도에 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 반면 보안성은 정부24 이용의도와 유의한 관계가 검정되지 않았다. 유의한 영향을 미치는 변수 중에서 정부24 이용의도에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것은 고령자의 심리적 특성으로 나타났다. 이어서 유용성, 인지적 특성, 신체적 특성, 용이성, 정부지원 순으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 고령자의 특성과 서비스 특성을 결합하여 실증 분석한 점은 학술적 차원에서 의미가 있었다. 아울러 심리적 특성이 가장 중요한 요인으로 나타난 것을 감안하여 고령층의 정부24 이용 활성화를 위해 이러한 점을 감안할 필요가 있어 보인다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1495-1506
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• 2004

This study was attempted to clarify the characteristics of elderly women's foot shape by examining the various measurements of women over 60 years old as compared with those of women in twenties considered as reference group. The subjects were 321 elderly women and 181 young women. Their right feet were measured directly and indirectly by using scanner and digital camera. The anthropometric measurements were composed of 62 items. They were measured during the months of July and August in 2001. As a result of comparing actual measurements of foot between the two groups, it was found that the elderly women tended to have shorter and lower foot than those among the young women. Among the elderly women, in addition, it was revealed that many deformities related to toes or legs led to the toes concentrated to the central axis of feet resulting in relatively steeper lateral angle of toe, and the heels and legs slanting forwards. As a result of comparing index values of foot between the groups, the elderly women's foot had the relatively wide width and low height in comparison with the length, showing more elliptical flattening than those of the young women. And, the width of the inside was wider than that of the outside, and the toe width was relatively short in comparison with the foot width resulting in severe deformities on the toes or the central axis of foot. Therefore, it was found that there were several deformities including flat foot or deformed toes among elderly women. It is expected that the characteristics of elderly women's foot shown in the results mentioned above will be used as the basic data in designing the footwear for elderly women.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2015

The purposes of this study are to analyze the problems of the elderly using kitchens by ergonomic work evaluation methods, and to make suggestions for planning and remodeling of the kitchens for the elderly. The work evaluation methods which used in this study were direct-observing methods, which contained the process of 2 or 3 times each visiting to four different houses where elderly people live. For direct-observing methods, analyzing with movement observations and observation methods with photos and videos were used. Characteristics of subject elderly people and problems of their kitchens were analyzed by static measurements, interviews, pictures, and videos. The data, which are recorded movements of the preparing meal of the elderly were analyzed by playing it back repeatedly. As results, physical characteristics of the elderly was the most important consideration; a participant with the arthritical knee was limping at the kitchen entrance due to the difference of the floor level, and a user with a bent back was working on the floor or place an elbow on the worktable to support her body. Those results made a conclusion about the common problems of the kitchens, and suggested the check list which has to be considered when designing the elderly using kitchen.