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KMID : 0379319990240020245
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Korean Journal of Rural Medicine
1999 Volume.24 No. 2 p.245 ~ p.268
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The Physical and Social Disability of Aged Persons Who Live Alone in Goksung Area
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Kim Shin-Woel
Kim Young-Lak
Ryu So-Yeon
Park Jong
Kim Ki-Soon
Kim Yang-Ok
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Abstract
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It is necessary that the old should have the physical and social ability to perform their daily life. This study is to grasp their degree of disability and problems and suggest their solutions. It surveyed the 87 old people over 65 years old from September 1st until September 30th, in 1997. The findings are as follows. 1) The activities of daily living(ADL) to find their degree of physical disability shows that their average performance ability is 75.9% of all the action while 24.1% of all the old people needs the others’ help. As they get older and older, the aged drop off in their physical ability, which is related to a statistical sense (p<0.001). 2) The social disability shows that the aged have their great difference from 9.2% to 85.1% in their instrumental activities of daily living(IADL), intellectual ability and social role. 3) A simple analysis shows that the activities of daily living are, in a statistical sense, related to age(p<0.001), the use of elder’s hall(p<0.001), the understanding degree of health(p<0.01) and so forth. 4) A simple analysis shows that the instrumental activities o( daily living are, in a statistical sense, related to age(p<0.001), the degree of education(p<0.05), the life of leisure(p<0.001), the understanding degree of health and so forth. 5) A multivariate logistic regression analysis shows that the disability of daily living is related to age, the visit of elder’s hall, the period of solitary living, instrumental activities of daily living is age and the visit of elder’s hall, and social role is the visit of elder’s hall and the decree of education, while intellectual activity has no related variables in a statistical sense.
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KEYWORD
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Physical and social disability, ADL, IADL, Aged Persons
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