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다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was conducted to evaluate degree of satisfactions for space functions and near environment of Community Elderly Centers among elderly users in Korea. The project was purposed to give the elderly club appropriate functions, so that could solve the deficiency of elderly welfare resources. Korea enters the aging society since 2000, as defined by U.N., i.e. over than 7% of the elderly among total population. Korea is expected that present capability of welfare resources are not enough to cope with such a dramatic increase on elderly population. In addition, economic crisis and deficient health resources also provide negative explanations on why the government could not expand health and welfare resources for solving the elderly needs and why should have find substitutive mechanism. Thus, as a way of securing the elderly care resources, this study tested a question as that if the elderly clubs could be utilized as health and welfare community centers for solving care needs of the elderly. The elderly clubs shows the highest number of facilities, 36,340 in nation-wide, which is almost equivalent to the number of villages in Korea Every village has at least more than one of the elderly club, and about 5% of the elderly users stay in the welfare centers all day long as if it were their home. Therefore, it is very imperative that the space functions be evaluated as a second home. In this study, 252 elderly users were interviewed about how satisfied with the space functions and near environment of the welfare centers, and certainly it was observed that there are some gender and marital status differences on the perceptions of management and community welfare facilities of the center. Finally in this study, it is proposed that the welfare centers be separated for the users on the basis of gender and marital status.