지체장애 독거노인가구를 위한 고령자 맞춤형 주택개조에 대한 거주 후 평가 연구

Abstract

With the aging of the world"s population, Korea is facing a super-aged society, so active countermeasures are urgently needed. Home modification is an important mechanism for adapting to retirement life and is a key topic that can reduce the national welfare burden. This study attempted to understand the effect of an aging-friendly customized home modification through the reaction of the elderly residents. Accordingly, first the characteristics of the modified features and the residents respectively, second the fit between them for each modified feature, and third the effectiveness of the entire modification through measures of lifw quality such as perceived self-reliance and expectation of continuous residence and happiness. In order to understand the resident response, a graphic scale was used by replacing the 5-step Likert scale text with the FPRS" face icon. The target households were elderly women living alone with physical disabilities, whose houses currently had aging friendly customized modification. Interview and observation techniques were used for the investigation. As results, very positive responses to various dimensions of user benefits were identified for each changed feature of the houses in which the deficiency part of the previous houses were supplemented by modification. In addition, the remarkable improvement of the three aspects of life quality was also confirmed. This proved the overall effectiveness of customized home modification at a limited cost, along with the accumulation of satisfaction with various modified features. In particular, it is meaningful that it has shown the rationality of the customized modification process previously done to improve residents’ self-reliance and expectation of continuous residence which are the core topics and hopes of Aging In Place.