Living Arrangement and Life Satisfaction of the Elderly in South Korea

Miyoung, Roh; Weon, Soyoon

doi:10.1007/s11205-020-02443-3

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“…The life satisfaction of the elderly living with their family is significantly higher than that of those living alone. Individuals with superior economic conditions and maintaining physical activity and social relations show higher life satisfaction than others [ 8 ]. The more chronic diseases the elderly have, the lower their life satisfaction [ 9 ].…”

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Study on Life Satisfaction of the Elderly Based on Healthy Aging

Hua

Chen

2022

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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The life satisfaction of the elderly is the key to subjective well-being and healthy aging. Many related studies are focused on the affected factors, including health status, economic level, social support, pension mode, social security, and intergenerational support, etc., but few are based on the macro perspective of healthy aging. This study constructed a healthy aging evaluation system with 6 dimensions, including 15 primary indicators and 57 secondary indicators, to evaluate the relationship between healthy aging and elderly life satisfaction. Results showed that the 13168 participants were, mainly, female (53.76%), 80–99 years old (47.99%), lived in rural areas (77.00%), married and living with their spouse (43.70%), and widowed (52.15%). 80.32% lived with household members. 70.37% elderly were satisfied with their lives. Specifically, there was no gender difference in life satisfaction of the elderly ( p = 0.273 ), but there were significant differences between groups of urban and rural ( p < 0.001 ), age groups of 65–79 and 80 older ( p < 0.001 ), marriage groups of unmarried and married ( p < 0.001 ), and types of elderly care of living alone and with others ( p < 0.001 ), respectively. Among the six dimensions of healthy aging, healthcare performed best and living environment dimension was the worst, which was an area that urgently needed to strengthen. The odds ratios (ORs) showed that the dimensions of social participation/social equity and economic finance played important roles in the well-being of the elderly. Under the macro background of healthy aging, how to take measures from the micro perspective of the healthy aging evaluation index system and ultimately improve the life satisfaction of the elderly and still needs to be explored in-depth.

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Study on Life Satisfaction of the Elderly Based on Healthy Aging

Hua

Chen

2022

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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“…For example, the life satisfaction of the elderly living with their family is significantly higher than that of those living alone. Individuals with superior economic conditions and maintaining physical activity and social relations show higher life satisfaction than others [58]. The more chronic diseases the elderly have, the lower their life satisfaction [59].…”

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Health of Widowed Elderly and Related Factors in China

Hua¹,

Chen²

2022

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Background:The widowed elderly are in poor health, but studies mainly focus on their mental health, physiological response, chronic disease, or death. The aim of this study was to investigate the health of the widowed elderly and related factors in China from the three dimensions of self-reported health, objective physical health and mental health. Methods: Data were obtained from the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey (CLHLS-2018). 3320 participants aged 65 years and older were selected, included 1573 widowed elderly and 1747 non-widowed elderly. A simplified version of the center for epidemiological research depression scale (CES-D-10) was used to assess depressive symptoms. The differences of depression and chronic diseases between widows and widowers were tested by independent sample t-test. A fully aligned polygonal graphical indexing method and binary logistic regression analysis were used to explore health and related factors of the widowed elderly. Results: Of the 1573 widowed elderly 70.88% were female, 59.19% were aged 80-99, 48.00% and 36.75% were from rural and urban areas respectively, and 92.05% lived with their families. Depressive symptoms were found in 20.15% of widowers and 49.33% of widows, and 60.26% of widowers and 64.75% of widows had more than one chronic disease. Statistically significant differences were found between widowers and widows in the above two. Self-reported health and mental health were slightly better than that of non-widowed elderly, with the exception of objective physical health. The variables of life restriction, physical exercise, life satisfaction and depressive symptoms were significant factors that influenced the widowed elderly health. Conclusions: Strengthening the monitoring and management of negative emotions and physiological functions of the widowed elderly, improving their awareness of physical and mental health and then promoting communication were found to be effective intervention measures.

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“…They considered this valuable for many older adults living in long-term care facilities as it serves different psychosocial functions in various settings to reflect on the past and share recollections with others. On the other hand, Roh et al [98] discovered that seniors living with families in South Korea had significantly higher life satisfaction than those living alone. Further, individuals who maintained both their social and physical activities and their economic profile showed higher levels of life satisfaction than their counterparts.…”

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Smart Homes and Families to Enable Sustainable Societies: A Data-Driven Approach for Multi-Perspective Parameter Discovery using BERT Modelling

Alqahtani¹,

Janbi²,

Sharaf³

et al. 2022

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Technological advancements and innovations have profoundly changed the lives of people giving rise to smart environments, cities, and societies. As homes are the building block of cities and societies, smart homes are critical to establishing smart living and are expected to play a key role in enabling smart cities and societies. The current academic literature and commercial advancements on smart homes have mainly focused on developing and providing smart functions for homes to provide security management and facilitate the residents in their various activities such as ambiance management. Homes are much more than physical structures, buildings, appliances, operational machines, and systems. Homes are composed of families and are inherently complex phenomena underlined by humans and their relationships with each other, subject to individual, intragroup, intergroup, and intercommunity goals. There is a clear need to understand, define, consolidate existing research, and actualize the overarching roles of smart homes, the roles of smart homes that would serve the needs of future smart cities and societies. This paper introduces our data-driven parameter discovery methodology and uses it to provide, for the first time, an extensive, rather fairly comprehensive, analysis of the families and homes landscape seen through the eyes of academics and the public using over a hundred thousand research papers and nearly a million tweets. We develop a methodology using deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and big data analytics methods and apply it to automatically discover parameters that capture a comprehensive knowledge and design space of smart families and homes comprising social, political, economic, environmental, and other dimensions. The 66 discovered parameters and the knowledge space comprising 100s of dimensions are explained by reviewing and referencing over 300 articles from the academic literature and tweets. The knowledge and parameters discovered in this paper can be used to develop a holistic understanding of matters related to families and homes facilitating the development of better, community-specific, policies, technologies, solutions, and industries for families and homes, leading to strengthening families and homes, and in turn, empowering sustainable societies across the globe.

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Living Arrangement and Life Satisfaction of the Elderly in South Korea

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

Study on Life Satisfaction of the Elderly Based on Healthy Aging

Study on Life Satisfaction of the Elderly Based on Healthy Aging

Health of Widowed Elderly and Related Factors in China

Smart Homes and Families to Enable Sustainable Societies: A Data-Driven Approach for Multi-Perspective Parameter Discovery using BERT Modelling

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