노인의 일상생활 활동이 삶의 질에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

Abstract

In this study, I tried to find out the effect of the daily activities on the quality of life for the age. The dependent variable is the quality of life and the independent variables are their daily life activities like; ADL, IADL, the family centered activity, self-development activity, social-cultural activity, social aids, subjective degrees of aging and population sociological variables are age bands, gender, state of marriage, the educational standard, economical status and health condition. I collected the data with one to one individual interviews as visiting adult settlement centers, halls for the aged and home visits and the object of this research were 322 people of 65 year-old adults who reside in Seoul. I used t-verification, ANOVA, correlation, multi-regression analysis for grasping the mutual relation among variables that are related with the quality of life for the age. The main results of those researches are ; 1. As subordinations of subjective degree of aging, women', the older's and separated or divorced aged' degrees of the aging in daily life were higher than men', relatively younger people and separated by their spouse's death or married couples who are living together and the degree of mental/social aging is higher when they are relatively younger, living together with their spouses and their educational standard is high. 2. Among populational/social variables, I found that the economical status effects the degree to satisfied to their lives. 3. The aged who believe in their religion and have high standards of education is actively involved in self-development activities in daily life. 4. The aged who are in better health condition, believe in their religion, have higher economic/educational state more active in social/cultural activities. Thus, I suggest the policies that can enhance the quality of life for the aged on the basis of the results of this research. First, national/social concern is needed for raising the degree of economic satisfaction of the aged with guaranteeing their incomes. Therefore, we have to seek the up and coming plan to give jobs for the poor and heathy aged, and enlarge the subject of public assistance for the unhealthy and poor aged to enhance the quality of life. The second, it is demanded the policy to give the chances that can participate in various education and daily activity programs for their self-development like self-development activities and social/cultural activities effect to raise the satisfaction of life meaningfully among the daily activities of the aged. This is, national support is needed for activating halls for the aged and colleges for the aged that are operated unrealistically. From now on, in aging societies, there will various life styles and the daily life activities pattern for the aged be appeared that we could not thought about it before and those things will be the new elements that affect to the life of the aged. It is demanded urgently that the supporting plan for programs to make participate in various activities without the feeling of subjective degree of aging by national/social approaching in the stand point of independent planning of life to enhance the quality of life through personal subjective lives that are composed with several field.