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The purpose of this study is to identify the type of old people’s leisure activities, to find out the relationship of the leisure activities and depression. and finally to be helpful basically for old people to select the leisure activities which are healing, preventing in old people’s Health-Welfare Program and helpful to develop quality of their lives. For this study, 72 respondents were selected among the old who were 60 years old or higher in S city of Kyung Gi Do. Interviews were conducted by trained students. Questionnaire for checking leisure activity type and geriatric depression scale in Korea(GDS-K) were used. Data were collected from March 15 to 22 in 2002. and analyzed by means of SPSS. The summarized results are as follows: 1. The old people spent most leisure time ’conversing with friends(27.8%)’, ’walking and jogging(20.8%)’. and ’gardening(19.4%)’. 2. According to general characteristics, old female spent most leisure time gardening’ and ’conversing with friends’, old people educated only to middle school spent most leisure time playing table tennis, tennis, badminton’ and old people living with married daughter spent most leisure time playing ’chess, cards’. 3. According to leisure-related characteristics, when they had many friends, old people spent their most leisure time on ’music. art, movie’ and ’conversing with friends’ and when they were satisfied with leisure activities, old people took participation significantly higher in social culture activity. 4. 34.7% of respondents were seemed to be in depression. According to general characteristics, depression point was significantly high in case of ’Female’, ’widow and widower’, ’single person’ and ’poor person’. and according to leisure-related characteristics. depression point was also significantly high in case they were not satisfied with leisure activities. 5. According to relationship between the type of leisure activity and depression. when they took part in social culture activities: swimming, fishing, climbing, music. art. playing musical instruments, dancing, gymnastics, depression point of old people was significantly low.
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