Citation

Yi ES, Hwang HJ. J. Exerc. Rehabil. 2015; 11(3): 125-132.

Affiliation

Department of Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology, Gachon University, Seongnam, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation)

DOI

10.12965/jer.150215

PMID

26171377

Abstract

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 various matters related to old people are inevitably taking place by carefully 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 isolation 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 provision of various relationship-building programs.

Language: en