This study aimed at presenting what factors are to predict the social isolation of the elderly as an element to prevent the problem of why var-ious matters related to old people are inevitably taking place by careful-ly examining the meaning of social isolation and the conditions of social isolation that the South Korean senior citizens go through after working on previous studies. This section discusses the results obtained through document analysis. First, the aspects of the elderly’s social isolation arising from the changes of the South Korean society are changes of family relationship, the social structure, the economic structure and the culture. Second, the social isolation and social activity of the elderly are problems (suicide, criminals, dementia, depression and medical costs) of the elderly, change trend of the elderly issues related to social isola-tion and prediction factors that personal and regional. Lastly, as a role and challenges of the field of rehabilitation exercise aimed at resolving social isolation should be vitalized such as the development and provi-sion of various relationship-building programs.
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Abstract INTRODUCTION THE SOCIAL ISOLATION AT A GOLDEN AGE THAT THE ELDERLY CANNOT AVOID What is the social isolation? The issue of the social isolation of the elderly THE ASPECTS OF THE ELDELY’S SOCIAL ISOLATION ARISING FROM THE CHANGES OF THE SOUTH KOREAN SOCIETY The changes of family relationship and the social isolation The change of the social structure and the social isolation The change of the economic structure and the social isolation The change of the culture and the social isolation THE SOCIAL ISOLATION AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY OF THE ELDERLY The problems of the elderly due to social isolation The change trend of the elderly issues related to social isolation The prediction factors of the social isolation of the elderly CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES
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Social behaviorSocial isolationKorean elderlyRehabilita-tion exercise
저자
Eun-Surk Yi [ Department of Exercise Rehabilitation & Welfare, College of Health Science, Gachon University, Incheon, Korea ]
Hee-Joung Hwang [ Department of Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology, Gachon University, Seongnam, Korea ]
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