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Study on Measures to Enhance Convenience in Daily Life of Elderly Households through Improvement of Senior Industry: Centering Assistive Technology Devices

Study on Measures to Enhance Convenience in Daily Life of Elderly Households through Improvement of Senior Industry: Centering Assistive Technology Devices

  • Author

    Kim, Kyeongrae

  • Publication Date

    2018

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Households of elderly people with a spouse and households of elderly people living alone are the types of households most vulnerable to various risks in everyday life in cases of declined physical functions or temporary health issues. Despite the circumstances, official or informal support is not currently provided sufficiently to elderly people in such types of households. In that sense, this study aims to seek measures to enhance the convenience of such elderly households in their daily life in the perspective of use of assistive products, instead of caregivers. Everydayness features the nature of daily repetition in ordinary life. Reduced everydayness of elderly people could result from weakened muscular strengths of the lower body, requiring special care. Therefore, social isolation caused by such issue should not be taken lightly not just by their family, but society as a whole.
Assistive products are recognized to be highly effective for both users themselves and their caregivers. Such devices play a supportive role for elderly people with impaired physical functions as well as a crucial role in increasing the quality of life for users and relieving physical and psychological burdens of caregivers. Against this backdrop, major countries in the world are promoting to expand the distribution of assistive technology devices in daily life further to support independent life, social activities as well as care labor for elderly households.

Therefore, Korea needs to expand the distribution of assistive products to elderly households with a compromised everdayness in order to improve the quality of their life. To this end, the role of the Korean Government is all the more important. 

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