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Research of policy direction of aging society's elderly residential centralized towards medical service

  • JOURNAL OF THE KOREA INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE
  • Abbr : KIHA
  • 2014, 20(4), pp.81-89
  • DOI : 10.15682/jkiha.2014.20.4.81
  • Publisher : Korea Institute Of Healthcare Architecture
  • Research Area : Engineering > Architectural Engineering
  • Published : November 30, 2014

Kang Jeongran 1

1인하대학교 도시계획

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ABSTRACT

Purpose : An aging phenomenon was recognized as only negative aspect, which impediment adevelopment with the decrease of a developing population and increase of social burden. Nevertheless, the problem of aging cannot be treated as a problem of individuals or social burden. Because Every mankind sometime will be the person directly involved the aging. Methods : Korea,predict to reach the aging society with over 20 percent of elderly in the whole population in 2020,should find an active political plan for responding. Because a previous discussion about the agingphenomenon focused on social welfare, the housing plan for the elderly with a consideration of thephysical environment for sustaining elderly's life with happiness will be primary task. Results : This research considers housing policy, focusing on the medical service. It is becausestatistics, which 85 percent of elderly people suffer from chronic diseases because of physical agingsignify the importance of medical service to the elderly in every-day-life. Implications : We prescribethe elderly as a population over 65. In this duration, the elderly retirees from the workplace e andspend the majority of time in their home. Thus, for the elderly, the residential space is a field ofaction and passageway connecting with the surroundings For the solution of physical spacepreparing the aging phenomenon, the combination of residential and medical function creates anew type of a lifestyle.

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