Title A Study on the Behavior of Old People in Home
Authors 장영희 ; 이문보
Page pp.83-90
ISSN 12269093
Keywords dwelling environment ; behavior pattern ; activity behavior ; community-based facility ;
Abstract The purpose of this study is to suggest the basic data of the territory of old life in planning of dwelling as a dwelling environment by studying the behavior and the pattern of behavior of old people.
The systems of community-based welfare for old people living in home is considered more efficient and encouraging then those of existed facility-based protecting institute. It is because that the changed system can settle the widely known problems in the protecting institutions. The negative affects were the breaking the established behavior pattern, cutting the intimate relations with other people or social activity and having sense of loss caused by the change of environment.
The spaces they usually move are living room and their own room and the activities they usually do are watching TV or going out and sleeping at home. In this I systemized the most typical pattern of daily lives of old people according to the activity pattern and the frequency of the activity.
The conclusion I got is that we need to make more efforts to increase community-based facility services which is strongly related with their activities in outside and to make those services more available would be our task to be followed .