치매 및 우울의심 노인과 정상노인의 사회적 지지망 비교 연구 - 경기도 광주군 노인을 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

One of the recent concerns of scholars and field practitioners who are interested in elder care is how to develop and expand informal and formal social support networks for the elderly. In order to get basic knowledge before trying to expand social support networks for the elderly residing in communities, this study compared social support networks between the elderly groups suspicious of dementia or depression and those without those mental illness. The study had four groups to be compared : dementia group(Dem-G), depression group(Dep-G), dementia/depression group(DD-G), normal group(No-G). While family network did not show a significant difference among the groups, friend network was significantly smaller in DD-G and Dep-G. Dem-G, Dep-G, and DD-G tended to have less emotional and social activity support than No-G. Dep-G and DD-G also had a smaller support network in terms of leisure and friendship groups, but Dep-G more frequently used medical or social service agencies.