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Needs Assessment of Elderly for Community-based Long-Term Care (요양보호 대상노인의 서비스 요구도 평가)

  • Lee, Jae-Chang;Kim, Eun-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: Needs of health-welfare-medical service for the elderly is rapidly increasing in Korea. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the needs of health-welfare-medical service for the long-term care elderly in the community and to compare differences by their characteristics. Method: Needs assessment was completed in the homes of 598 persons over 65 years by using the tool of needs assessment, between November and December, 2003. We examined all the health-welfare-medical service of elderly in the community. Data were analyzed using SAS program. Result: The needs of the long-term care elderly in community was largest 'home visiting service of visiting nurse(87.5%)', and then 'religious, psychological and emotional support(73.9%)', 'home visiting therapy of physician(58.5%)', 'social support service(55.7%)', 'health improvement program of public health center and social welfare center(51.8%)', 'health examination(48.8%)' followed. The difference of health-welfare-medical service needs among characteristics(age, medical security, caregiver existence, and regions) was statistically significant by service contents(p<0.05 or p<0.01). Conclusion: We can apply it in the distribution of community resource and the development of service providing programs by figure out the needs assessment for the long-term care elderly in the community, and consequently, through this, realizing the health maintenance and promotion of the long-term care elderly.

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Structural Relationship between Working Environment, Manager's Trust, and Service Quality of Workers in Elderly Medical Welfare Facilities (노인의료복지시설 종사자들의 근무환경과 관리자 신뢰, 서비스 질과의 구조적 관계)

  • Kim, Mi-Suk;Jeong, Heaeng-Jun
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to establish a research model to analyze the structural relationship between the working environment of the elderly medical welfare facility workers, the trust of the manager, and the quality of service. As a result, first, it was found that there was a significant causal relationship among service quality in the working environment of the elderly medical welfare facility workers. Second, it was found that there was a significant causal relationship between the working environment and the trust of managers of the elderly medical welfare facility workers. Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of the elderly medical welfare facility and improve the quality of service, it is necessary to create a working environment and establish a trust relationship among members. In addition, in order to cultivate competency and provide high-quality services for the elderly medical welfare facility workers, managers need to understand the individual characteristics of members, and to assign duties according to roles, accurate division of duties and personnel management are required.

Medical Treatment Service for the Housing Welfare of Elderly People- Laying stress on Aging in Place concept - (노인주거복지 향상을 위한 의료서비스 지원방안 연구 - Aging in Place 개념을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Joon-Min;Park, Nam-Hee;Shin, Hwa-Kyoung
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.367-370
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    • 2005
  • Offer of medical treatment service for recovery or preservation of physical spiritual function of elderly people by sudden population graying developing is essential. Therefore, according to increase of elderly's medical treatment demand, medical treatment service request is augmented. Number of medical treatment service utilization wishes to grope medical treatment service support way for elderly residing cloth elevation laying stress on elderly's Aging in Place in increase trend in this research. If decide, is as following : First, national hospital and public health center were concentrated most on Seoul and kyonggi, and there were many hospitals to south of a river nine, Songpagu, Seochogu, and public health center was expose that is one by one to each nine. Second, in the case of Seoul, elderly population ratio was expose that comparatively high Yeongdeungpo, Chongno, Yongsan, west passage nine is few hospital number relatively in elderly's residential area. Third, need that establish elderly full text clinic on part of general hospital or university hospital equipment. Fourth, must do so that can use access as is easy little more in local community to all elderly who need medical treatment service of visit nursing, visit medical examination and treatment etc.. that consist in present public health center.

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The Efficient Management Method about the Workers of the Welfare Facilities for Improving the Quality of Elderly Medical Service (노인의료서비스의 질적 제고를 위한 시설종사자 관리의 효율화 방안)

  • Cho, Woo-Hong;Park, Chun-Gyu;Son, Myeong-Dong
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2013
  • This study has a purpose of analyzing the difference of care giver's subjective awareness of self-efficacy and job satisfaction according to the types of welfare facilities, before studying the structural relationship between the management variables about workers at the welfare facilities for improving the quality of elderly medical welfare service. As a result of empirical analysis, there was no awareness difference of care givers according to the types of the elderly medical welfare facilities, but in general it was emphasized that the care givers' satisfaction with self-efficacy and job satisfaction was very essential in providing the elderly medical service. Therefore, this study has significance that it provided the theoretical fundament for efficient management method about the workers of the elderly medical welfare facilities.

Factors Affecting the Utilization of Emergency Medical Services by Age Group among Elderly Individuals (노년기 연령그룹에 따른 응급의료이용 영향 요인)

  • Choi, Ryoung;Ahn, Byeung-Ki;Cho, Suck Ju
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.67-79
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors affecting the utilization of emergency medical services and characteristics of emergency medical services according to age group among elderly individuals. Methods: This study conducted t-test and linear regression analysis on data of 1,960,575 participants to achieve the objective. Results: Analysis of the factors affecting the use of emergency medical services showed statistically significant correlation in all age groups. As the age of elderly people increased, the use of emergency medical service increased. Conclusions: Emergency medical policies are needed, such as coordinators with expert knowledge of medical and health administration and specialist emergency room operations that can provide specialized medical service for older patients.

The Study of Community-oriented Welfare Service for the Rural Elderly - Focused on ′Villages Supported by Special Programs for the Rural Elderly′ - (농촌노인의 지역사회 복지서비스 이용실태 - ‘노인생활지도마을’을 대상으로 -)

  • 이정화;송미영
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.149-165
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    • 2004
  • In Korea, as the elderly population is growing, the quality of life of the rural elderly is becoming a major concern. By the way, social welfare services is less available and accessible to the rural elderly. And we have very limited information about community -oriented welfare services for the elderly. The lack of social welfare services in rural area resulted from mainly geographic isolation and economic deprivation. So, the present research aimed at; 1) to explore what the social welfare service is benefited from governmental or local assembly. 2) to explore what kind of community services is provided for the rural village and elderly. 3) to appear the political propose for the rural elderly. In South Korea, The Rural Development Administration currently operate 'villages which is supported special programs for the improvement of QOL of rural elderly' in 110 villages. It is a model governmental welfare service for rural area. For the purpose, the survey data is gathered from community level data per village (107 villages), individual survey data(881people) who live in the village and qualitative data. Two kinds of quantitative data is combined to form a data. The statistical methods used for data analysis are descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA. The major findings of this study were as follows : It was founded that the majority family type of the rural elderly is elderly-only households(75%). In case of poor elderly, they have very limited social insurance benefit and they can not get medical services with satisfaction. The result show that the welfare facilities per village and welfare service for the elderly is extremely low while the needs of welfare service is greate high. A distinctive characteristics in rural villages is that they receive a lot of services from private sectors, like as Women Farmers Union, Adult Union. They operate voluntary welfare services related to food supporting, education for the elderly, free haircut services and so on. In conclusion, the community care services from private sector has specialty in rural area. We conclude it is a distinguishing characteristic of rural community.

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A Study on Types of Multi-Functional Welfare Facilities and Day Service Centers for the Elderly in Japan (일본 고령자복합시설과 데이서비스센터의 복합유형에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Hae-Sun;Oh, Eun-Jin
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.62-71
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    • 2007
  • Due to the shortage of elderly care services in urban areas, multi-functional welfare facilities are proven to be very effective for delivering various service needs of elderly in Japan. Introduction of new longterm care policy for elderly in Korea would change many aspects of elderly care service facilities. Especially elderly home care services like adult daycare centers will expand drastically after beginning of elderly longterm care insurance. The purpose of this research is to study and analyze multi-functional welfare facilities in Japan focusing on the types of day service in those facilities. Planning of daycare centers in multi-functional welfare facilities for the elderly can be classified to 8 types. Those types are daycare centers with senior housing, longterm care insurance facilities, senior centers, small multi-function facility, medical facilities, educational facilities, community facilities and general housing projects. Each type has different benefits for the networking of services for the elderly. Design of daycare centers in multi-functional welfare facilities have distinctive features in entrance and user approach, space allocation and circulation planning. The study of daycare centers and multi-function planning should be followed to make better home care environments for the elderly in Korea.

A Study on the Service Network of Intensive arrangement of the Health, Medical and Welfare facilities for Elderly in Japan - Focused on Miyagi Nango and Yamagata Nishigawa in Tohoku area of Japan - (농촌지역 고령자 보건·의료·복지시설의 집약에 따른 서비스 연계 - 일본 동북지방의 Miyagi현 Nango와 Yamagata현 Nishigawa의 비교분석 -)

  • Nam, Yun-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.111-120
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the small-scale local governments of japan are enlarging and enriching the service of health, medical and welfare facilities for the elderly . Intensive arrangement of the three types of facilities is one of the effective ways especially for the small-scale local governments. The service network between facilities benefits by the intensive arrangement. Benefits include the network of the medical service, the share of care information, the share of space and equipment. It can be a notable feature in the intensive arrangement that the elderly were taken from welfare facilities (especially dayscare center) to hospital of high movement frequency quickly. Instead of EV path as possible, It is desirable to stand close between facilities of high movement frequency. For large area, the heavy snow made low daycare ratio. Therefore, it is desirable to construct a branch office at a long distance.

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The Linkage of Health Care and Social Services for the Elderly in Jeonnam Province and its Related Factors (전라남도 노인보건복지에 있어서 방문간호사와 사회복지전담공무원의 서비스 연계실태 및 관련요인)

  • Rhee, Jung-Ae;Chung, Eun-Kyung;Ham, Cheol-Ho;Lee, Young-Hun
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.41-53
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    • 2006
  • This study was carried out to investigate the linkage between health care and social services for the elderly in Jeonnam Province and its related factors. The subjects were 831 persons of visiting health service workers and social welfare workers in Jeonnam Province who responded the mail questionnaire (85.5% respondse rate). The data were collected from 15th May to 30th June, 2004 using the structured questionnaire. It was composed of the socio-demographic characteristics, the content and frequency of services referred between health care and social welfare workers, and interdisciplinary perception. Data was analysed by SPSS for Windows 12.0. 374(45.0%) reported having experience of service cooperation between health care and social welfare workers for the last three month. The most service that health care workers requested to social welfare workers was to get information for the client, on the other hand the most service that social welfare workers requested to health care workers was to visit and treat the elderly. These service providers in rural area and good attitude toward the cooperation between health care and social welfare service showed more linkage. The findings of this study could provide the basic data for the development of efficient coordinating program of health and welfare.

A Survey of Employees' Perception on the Service Network of Concentrated Arrangement of the Health, Medical and Welfare Facilities for Elderly in Japan - Focused on Miyagi-ken Nango-cho and Yamagata-ken Nishigawa-cho in Tohoku area of Japan - (농촌지역 고령자 보건∙의료∙복지 집약시설내 서비스연계에 대한 직원의 의식조사 - 일본 동북지방의 궁성현(宮城県) 남향정(南鄕町)과 산형현(山形県) 서천정(西川町)을 대상으로 -)

  • Nam, Yun-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2008
  • Recently, Rural village of japan are enlarging and enriching the service of health, medical and welfare facilities for the elderly. Concentrated arrangement of the three types of facilities is one of the effective ways especially for the small-scale local governments. This paper focus on a questionnaire survey of employees who work in the facilities to evaluate service network. Using this survey data, it is used to make a plan of intensive arrangement. As a result, their satisfaction with concentrated arrangement was considerable high. In particular, they expressed satisfaction with service network between Medical and Welfare. Due to increasing outpatients, the concentrated arrangement has contributed to hospital funds and given emotional security to the aged in welfare facilities. In order to promote service network effect, there are many opinions that management of health facilities(local governments) is needed.

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