노인의 생활안전의식과 이에 영향을 미치는 요인 = Life Safety Consciousness of the Elderly and Related Factors

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

To achieve such goal, investigation assistants conducted one-to-one interviews for the elderly of 55 years old or older who lived in Seoul or provincial areas, during a period from June 13 to August 25, 2008. The results are as follows. First, it was necessary to give safety education to 82.5% of subjects. The female elderly wanted to receive the safety education than the male elderly, and the desire for such education was m direct proportion to education and income levels, but in reverse proportion to age. TV and press accounted for 54.4%, the highest rate of the information sources for safety education. All the groups of subjects overwhelmingly confirmed that the safety education was helpful for the prevention of accidents. Second, more accidents were experienced by the elderly who were lower m age, had higher academic background and monthly income and lived in metropolitan cities. Third, physical collision accounted for the highest rate of accident types. Of injured sites, legs were most exposed to accidents. Of aftereffect types, suridese showed the highest frequency in all age groups. Forth, the consciousness of traffic safety was high in the female elderly, compared to the male elderly, and in city and gun (county) areas, compared to large cities. Fifth, the consciousness of traffic safety accounted for the highest rate of accident factors, and was independent of the extent of life inconvenience. In conclusion, most of the elderly thought that they needed to receive safety education and would gain great benefits from the safety education. Any aspect of safety education should not be ignored, but seeing that the budget, time and space of education are restricted, education effects will be maximized by selecting the factors important for the actual circumstances and educating them intensively. It seems that the planning and implementation of social policies should be made to arouse the interest of people so that the elderly will be awakened to the consciousness of life safety and receive the safety education highly applicable to actual cases.