Urban forest around our lives is a necessary element to maintain old people's healthy and happy life.
Through using urban forest life's quality of old people will make our home peaceful, reduce medical cost in the society, and decrease pressure for ...
Urban forest around our lives is a necessary element to maintain old people's healthy and happy life.
Through using urban forest life's quality of old people will make our home peaceful, reduce medical cost in the society, and decrease pressure for the descendant to supprot natioanl wellfare pension system as national "hyo" in the aging society's problem.
Eventually old people's healthy life will help us to make a better, happier, and healthier society for all of us in the aging society.
So I , as a researcher, will prove that the profit of the forest, obtained from utilizing forest as a leisure place which is easy to use for old people and accessible to our living, will influence positively on old people's mental health and be useful to the quality of their lives in the aging society
In addition I would like to suggest a plan to make good use of urban forest for prevention.
This study can be summarized like this.
Study 1. According to the land-ratio of the urban-forest
the subjects were Nowon-gu whose life zone land-ratio of the urban-forest is 5.49 percent and Sungdong-gu whose is 3.53 percent.. sungdong-gu' economic standard was higher than nowon-gu in the subsides; nowong-gu, 9.9 percent; sungdong-gu, 5.5 percent .and the study also compared the use behavioral social link and the quality of the life in two areas's 100 old people respectively.
Consequently the use of behavior showed the difference of 0.05 in all parts of frequency of use, travel time, seasonal use, midweek time, using time, companion, facility except the use-purpose. Furthermore social link and quality of life in nowon-gu's old people was highter than sungdong-gu.
Study 2. According to the shape of the urban-forest
the subjects were Bukhan mountain and worldcup park which is an urban-forest. The study compared use of behavior, social link, quality of life in two area's 150 old people respectively.
Consequently the use of behavior showed the difference of 0.05 in all parts of travel time, using time, midweek time, companion, use-purpose, frequency of use.
but the difference was not seen in frequency of use, seasonal use, social link and quality of life.
This study showed that urban-forest is an essential element for maintaining old people's healthy and happy life. Especially the existence of the urban-forest near their living affects old people's mental health. So this study will be expected to contribute to improve the policies for diversity and quality of the forest welfare. And furthermore using the urban-forest for healing and preventing diseases will be recommended.