빅카인즈 시스템을 활용한 노인학대 인식에 관한 빅데이터 분석 연구

Abstract

Even though there have been various efforts for solving the issue of elder abuse such as the government amended the Elderly Welfare Act and also established the elder abuse policies, and private institutions are providing elder abuse preventive services, the elder abuse is gradually increasing. Thus, as a fundamental approach for solving the issue of elder abuse which becomes aggravated day by day, this study analyzed domestic press report articles to understand the general awareness and trend of elder abuse in our society. In the research method, this study utilized big data analysis data and its analysis system called BIGKinds. The analysis data was divided into two sections based on 2017 when Korea entered the aged society. Section 1 is the period of aging society from 2011 to 2016 while Section 2 is the period of aged society from 2017 to 2022. The press articles collected for six years in each period were analyzed. After collecting total 5,333 articles of Section 1 and 5,630 articles of Section 2, this study conducted the keyword trend analysis, relation analysis, and related word analysis. The main results of this study are as follows. First, in the results of the keyword trend analysis, during the whole period, the most articles were reported in 2016(1,168), which was followed by 2017(1,122) and 2021(1,093) in order. Second, in the results of the relation analysis, the main keywords of Section 1 were the Elder Welfare Act, mandated reporter & reporter, and world elder abuse & world elder abuse awareness. The main keywords of Section 2 were the Elder Welfare Act, mandated reporter, COVID-19 & Corona, and anti-abuse police officer. Third, in the results of the related word analysis, the keywords commonly shown in each section were the Ministry of Health and Welfare, assailant, spouse, aging, social problem, UN, social interest, business agreement, nursing home, and elder abuse state report. Fourth, in the results of the related word analysis, the keywords solely shown in Section 1 were economic, mandated reporter, victim, children, offsprings, revised bill, INPEA(International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse), elderly, and elderly care institution while the keywords solely shown in Section 2 were ceremony, the National Police Agency, protection of human rights, growing trend, aged society, nursing facilities, economic exploitation, worker, police station, and care worker. For improving the awareness of elder abuse and preventing elder abuse, this study suggested the revision of the Elder Welfare Act, enactment of laws related to elder abuse, seeking the measures for vitalizing mandated report of elder abuse, regular activities for spreading the social awareness of elder abuse, and strengthening the care service for reducing elder abuse by spouse.