Dissertations / Theses: 'Senior citizen'

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Korvala, T. (Tapio), and H. (Hannu) Raappana. "Open visual guidance system for mobile senior citizen." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201505211603.

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The elderly citizen’s health care need some radical changes and improvements to alleviate the situation where the quality of service must be enhanced without overburdening the caregivers under the weighty workload. Much of research is done and many researchers all around the world emphasize the importance of assistive technologies. Current technological advancements in communication allow us to build systems which could be useful tools for the caregivers and allow the elderly to live more autonomous and active life. Offering stimulus to the elderly to experience with the technology could lessen the feel of social isolation and ameliorate the quality of service significantly. Shrinking electronics, mobiles and sensors do not bound the use only in homes or facilities, but allow the use in many different environments. While using technology of this kind, the caregivers could give guidance or follow the health status of a mobile elderly citizen in remote fashion and give help if needed. This thesis is also immersing in the matter by producing a Visual Guidance system that utilizes current mobile technology, actuators, sensors and uses a virtual reality as a communication medium between the caregivers and elderly citizens. The system consists of two different parts combined together to form a real-time communication system between caregivers and elderly citizen. The system uses Android smart phone’s built-in sensors to track the movement of the elderly. Those sensors are location based sensors such as GPS and acceleration and magnetometer sensors. This system provides an open map view of the world where the elderly citizen move. Also to improve the communication between the elderly and caregiver, video and audio communication has been used as one of our research aims. The caregiver can remotely use the smart phone to open video and audio communication with the elderly if needed. The system has been integrated with indicator base smart glasses so that when the elderly citizen are on the move, the caregiver can give directional advices on where and when to go. The authors used integration testing to evaluate the system and comparing the current system functions with the requirements of the system. Also the authors made sure that the delay with communication was small enough so it would be safe for the caregivers to communicate with the elderly citizen. For future work we suggested various actions such as integrating indicator based glasses with the Pupil Pro glasses, finding the most appropriate security solutions for the system and testing the system with real-life caregivers and elderly citizen.

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Deng, C. (Canrong). "Multi user support for senior citizen visual guidance system." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201603251353.

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Due to the population aging phenomenon, the working-age population will decline in the future while the seniors’ quality of life can decline. A lot of research has been done and many of researchers figure out modern ICT and mobile technology needs to shoulder more responsibility in elderly care. The benefit of science and technology should be brought to senior citizens’ life. Moreover, the smartphone ownership rate has been increasing in recent years, espe- cially the percentage of Android phone ownership. Because elders will take smart- phone everywhere, installing an application in senior citizen’s Android phone is a good way to track their movements. The caregivers could give guidance remotely to elders based on their location and surrounding environment scene by using mobile technology of this kind. The multi user support for senior citizen visual guidance system consists of five components: Android phone, Pupil headset, Indicator-based Glasses, OldBirds and web server part. The system uses the Pupil headset to capture senior citizen’s font view and transfer it to OldBirds part which is controlled by caregivers. Furthermore, the Indicator-based glasses are used to show the guidance orders given by remotely caregivers. The web server part is transfer station between Android phone and OldBirds part. Google Cloud Messaging service has already been integrated into this system so that caregivers can directly give guidance orders to senior citizens about when and where to go. For future work I suggest, from the hardware perspective, to connect Pupil headset’s world camera and eye camera together by a USB hub. Furthermore, I recommend to combine Pupil headset and Indicator-based glasses together to remove the need for Bluetooth connection.

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Marek, Danna S. "Senior citizen housing implementing a continuum of care environment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28136.

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In the last twenty five years the health of individuals worldwide has changed. Life expectancy has substantially increased and the proportion of older citizens is growing constantly. This growing population of elderly people will dominate the housing market in the coming years. An increased demand for housing and health care services for the elderly calls not only for much greater supply than we have ever experienced, but also for new approaches, one of which is based on the graduation of care. Provincial and local governments are looking for innovative options and design solutions which could meet the needs and expectations of a new wave of seniors at the end of this century. It is the intention of this thesis to identify and define what are the underlying principles in planning housing and services for the contemporary elderly. The Thesis has been developed as a research cycle based on a three-phase methodology of analysis-synthesis-evaluation. Analysis commences with comprehensive research into existing facilities and introduces the notion of multi-level care of the elderly. It investigates the real meaning of the quality environment within the elderly facility in terms of a continuum of his/her lifestyle. Synthesis defines the phenomenon of the continuum of care environment in the full scale facility program for the proposed Continuum of Care Complex (CCC) in West Point Grey in Vancouver, B.C. Evaluation investigates the feasibility of the program implementation on a test site. A basic premise of the thesis is that a multi-level care facility is a viable way of achieving an environment, which may fulfill a comprehensive array of needs of the elderly. It should include housing alternatives for the elderly, both in terms of tenure and supportive services, but above all should provide a specific ambiance equal to a home-like environment. The thesis has been structured as a hypothetical model of a programming system based on the principle of the continuum of care. This model includes four major functional components of the proposed complex: residential, long-term care, community services and outdoor activity spaces that blending together create a quality environment. This model has been developed in the real situation of the Point Grey Community on the principle of an active interaction. Subsequently this model has been tested on a selected site in terms of identification of opportunities and constraints which may affect successful program implementation. The thesis concludes that a hypothetical model of the Continuum of Care Complex can be successfully implemented on the selected test site of the Point Grey Community. "Continuum of Care" environment for the elderly developed in the model may satisfy a broad range of needs for the elderly: physical, physiological and sociopsychological.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
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Gallardo, Green Orlando Santiago. "Medição da resistencia aerobica em adultos maiores atraves do teste de Mazorra Zamorra." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275350.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica
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Resumo: O objetivo do presente estudo foi medir a Resistência Aeróbica através do Teste de Mazorra Zamora em adultas maiores, da cidade de Concepción¿Coronel - Chile, onde a mostra foi de pessoas voluntárias, selecionadas de um grupo de Ginástica para o Adulto Maior Ativas de: Caminho Olavarría integrada por 5 senhoras; um grupo de Ginástica do Departamento de Educação Física da Universidade de Concepción, integrada por 15 senhoras; outro grupo pertecente ao Consultório Víctor Manuel Fernández integrado por 24 senhoras e um grupo de 18 adultas maiores sedentárias do Club ¿San Francisco de Asís¿ de Coronel e uma adulta maior sedentária voluntária de Concepción. O Teste aplicado se caracteriza por dar resultados em distância recorrida num tempo predeterminado. Por otro lado, se utilizou estatística descritiva de média, desviação estándar e nível para caracterizar aos grupos e a aplicação da fórmula ¿t de student¿ que permitiu ratificar que há diferença significativa entre adultos maiores que praticam atividade física e aqueles adultos maiores que não praticam atividade física
Abstract: The target of the present study was to measure the Aerobic Resistance by means of the Mazorra-Zamora Test in senior citizens of the city of Concepción-Coronel ¿ Chile. The sample was made up of volunteers. The people were chosen from a Gymnastics-for-the-Active-Elderly group in the Camilo Olavarría neighbourhood (6 women); a Gymnastics Group from the Department of Physical Education of the University of Concepción (15 women); a group from the Víctor Manuel Fernández Health Care Center (24 women); a group of sedentary elderly women (18) from the San Francisco de Asís Club in the city of Coronel; and one volunteer, elderly, sedentary woman from the city of Concepción. The Test applied is characterized by its results given in reference to a certain distance covered in a predetermined period of time. On the other hand, average descriptive statistics, standard deviation and rank were used to characterize the groups and the application of the ¿t of student¿ Test, which allowed the substantiation that there is significant difference between seniors citizens engaged in physical activity and those who are not engaged in physical activity
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Ciencia do Desporto
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Dalbosco, Simone Nenê Portela. "O idoso hospitalizado : perspectivas do próprio sujeito a respeito de si mesmo, dos familiares e dos profissionais cuidadores." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/18267.

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O envelhecimento populacional é um processo universal, que não afeta apenas o indivíduo, mas também a família e a sociedade. No Brasil, o número de idosos está crescendo, o que torna necessário discutir sobre o exercício do cuidado destinado ao sujeito idoso, sobretudo o hospitalizado, bem como as perspectivas que este possui a respeito de si mesmo, dos familiares e dos profissionais cuidadores. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa qualitativa consistiu, assim, em conhecer e compreender a percepção do sujeito idoso hospitalizado a respeito de si mesmo e dos cuidadores familiares e profissionais. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa 19 idosos hospitalizados, com 60 anos ou mais, capazes de responder às questões aplicadas oralmente, a partir de um roteiro prévio, após várias observações, no período de 2007 e 2008, numa instituição hospitalar privada do RS. Tais respostas foram analisadas com base nas seguintes noções: conceitos e preconceitos relativos ao sujeito idoso; o autocuidado e o cuidado prestado por familiares e profissionais; perda de autonomia e institucionalização: a relação do idoso com o profissional cuidador; profissionais cuidadores da área da saúde; o profissional cuidador e a profissional cuidadora: a desigualdade entre os gêneros; qualidade de vida e saúde dos profissionais "cuida(dores)"; o surgimento dos hospitais; a ética, o SUS e as políticas públicas de saúde do idoso. Por meio da análise dos conteúdos, chegou-se a quatro categorias, definidas pelas respostas e não pelas questões: 1) "o idoso fala sobre si e sua doença"; 2) "a percepção do idoso com relação ao cuidador: os âmbitos familiar e profissional"; 3) "percepção do idoso em relação à instituição hospitalar"; 4) "percepção do idoso com relação aos seus direitos e deveres". A partir das respostas analisadas, concluiu-se que muitos sujeitos idosos não tinham clareza sobre a "sua" patologia; verificou-se a esperança em relação à vida e à cura de sua doença geralmente associada à religiosidade e à fé; esteve presente, ainda, a preocupação de se constituir um paciente permanente, com dependência irreversível dos medicamentos ou dos "cuida(dores)", perdendo, assim, a sua autonomia como sujeito. Em relação à instituição, embora tenha se constatado um atendimento ético e parcimonioso, nem sempre isso foi evidenciado pelos sujeitos idosos. O idoso com patologias graves referiu sentir-se mais seguro no hospital por ter ali o apoio técnico indispensável, preferindo, nessa ocasião, o cuidador profissional. Apesar da intenção explícita nas políticas públicas em considerar o idoso como sujeito em uma nova fase de vida, com necessidades e cuidados específicos, verificou-se que os direitos dos idosos ainda são desconhecidos pela sociedade e por eles próprios. A geriatria, a gerontologia e os novos conceitos delas decorrentes não alcançaram, ainda, todos os profissionais cuidadores de idosos, e menos ainda os seus familiares. Daí a urgência de um processo educativo e educador em torno do novo paradigma que busca, entre outras coisas, "pagar uma dívida" para com os idosos e resgatar o sujeito que a modernidade relegou a um lugar periférico e de invisibilidade.
The population ageing is a universal process that does not affect only the individual, but also the family and the community. In Brazil, the number of senior citizens is increasing and because of that it is necessary to discuss about the care of the elderly, especially the hospitalized one, as well as to reflect about their perspectives concerning themselves, the family and the professional caregivers. The goal of this qualitative research was to identify and to comprehend the perception of the hospitalized senior citizen concerning themselves, their family and the professional caregiver. The research subjects were 19 hospitalized senior citizens - 60 years old or more - who were able to answer the oral interviews, which were performed, based on a previous script and after several observations, in the period of 2007 and 2008, in a private hospital in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The criteria used to subdivide the analysis in four categories were defined by the answers and not by the questions. Here they are: Talking about the senior citizens: some concepts and prejudices; The auto-care and the care rendered by family and professionals; Loss of autonomy and institutionalization: the relationship between the elder and the caregiver; Professional caregiver in the health area; From the female caregiver to the male one: the inequality between the genders; Life quality and the caregiver’s health; The hospitals beginning; Ethics and public health policies for the elderly. By the analysis of the contents, four categories were identified: first - "the elder speaks about himself and his disease"; second - "the perception of the elder regarding the caregiver: the familiar and professional scope"; third - "the perception of the elder regarding the hospital institution"; fourth - "the perception of the elder regarding their rights and duties." Based on the analysis realized, it was possible to conclude that many senior citizens did not have clearness about their pathology; the hope regarding life and the cure of the disease was almost associated to the religiosity and faith; the preoccupation of being a permanent patient, with irreversible dependence of medicines or caregivers, losing, thus, their autonomy. Considering the institution, although it was verified an ethical and parsimonious assistance, it was not always evidenced by the senior citizens. The ones with serious pathologies affirm to feel safer in hospital because of its indispensable technical support, desiring, so, the professional caregiver. Besides the explicit intention in the public policies of considering the senior citizen someone in a new phase of life, with specific needs and cares, it was not always verified, making it possible to believe that the rights of the elderly are still unknown by society and also themselves. The geriatrics and gerontology specialties and their new concepts have not reached, yet, all the senior caregivers or families. From that situation, there is the urgency of an educational process around the new paradigm that aims, among other things, to "pay a debt" to the senior citizen, rescuing the individual that modernity has relegated to a peripheral and invisible place.

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Cho, Ho-yan. "A study of housing provision for the elderly in Hong Kong : the Senior Citizen Residences (SEN) scheme /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36438947.

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WIDIYASTUTI, DYAH. "IDENTIFYING THE FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC SPACE FULFILLING NEEDS OF THE SENIOR CITIZEN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1093026218.

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Kraiwattanapong, Somsri. "The senior citizen center, Mission Bay, San Francisco : ACSA/Wood Council student design competition." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845988.

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This thesis for the master of architecture degree focuses on the particular requirements for Senior Citizen Center in San Francisco.In the traditional society of the West, things did not change quickly, and people did not frequently move from one place to another; but this present-day society is one of dynamic suburbs; villages and towns can change their appearances in a very short time. The treatment of older people in contemporary society has caused many of them to feel alienated from the mainstream. Technical progress and the “rational” organization of present day civilization has largely eliminated the aged as persons having more experience that may beneficially be shared with the rest of us. I believe it is important to consider and respect the value of elderly people.My chosen program and site for this creative project is to design and solve the main problems of high density, the location, and the existing environments.In my own country of Thailand, there are only a few places specifically built for homeless elderly. It is very interesting therefore for me to explore and acquire knowledge for the design of Senior Citizen Center in the United States. There is a certain potential for this being useful someday in my own country.
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Lee, Kar-yan Karen. "An evaluation of the "Senior Citizen Residences Scheme" for the middle-class elderly in Hong Kong : a case study of Jolly Place /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35808950.

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Acosta, Cruzado Rocío, and Sánchez Jennyfer Sánchez. "Religiosidad y depresión en adultos mayores institucionalizados de Lima Metropolitana." Universidad Católica del Norte, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622074.

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Este estudio tuvo como objetivo conocer la relación entre religiosidad y depresión en adultos mayores residentes de albergues en Lima Metropolitana. La muestra estuvo constituida por 150 adultos mayores, 88 mujeres y 62 hombres, con edades entre 65 a 90 años (promedio de 77,84 años) de Perú. Los participantes fueron evaluados con la Age Universal I-E 12 (Simkim & Etchezahar, 2013) y la Escala de Depresión Geriátrica (GDS-15) (Gómez-Angulo & Campo-Arias, 2011). Los resultados mostraron que el factor de Orientación Social de la variable Religiosidad presentó una correlación débil y significativa con la variable Depresión, mientras que el factor de Orientación Personal no mostró una correlación con la Depresión; rechazando así la hipótesis planteada. Asimismo, se obtiene resultados de las correlaciones entre las variables según las variables sociodemográficas. Se discuten las implicancias y sugerencias para futuras investigaciones.
This study aimed to determine the relationship between religiosity and depression of senior citizens living in retirement homes in the Lima Metropolitan area – Peru. The sample was composed of 150 informants: 88 women and 62 men, whose ages ranged between 65 and 90 with an average of 77.84. Two instruments were applied: Age Universal I-E 12 (Simkim & Etchezahar, 2013) and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) (Gómez-Angulo & Campo-Arias, 2011). Results revealed that the social orientation of religiosity has a weak but significant correlation with depression whereas the personal orientation showed no correlation with depression. Based on these data, the hypothesis is discarded. In addition, results of correlations among variables regarding sociodemographic record were obtained. Finally, implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.

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Cho, Ho-yan, and 曹可欣. "A study of housing provision for the elderly in Hong Kong: the Senior Citizen Residences (SEN) scheme." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45008437.

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Rosa, Bernardo Eugénio Parracho Lopes. "Sénior, o turista do futuro: um estudo abrangente do turista sénior português." Master's thesis, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/4438.

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Este trabalho centra-se no Turismo Sénior, um segmento que, apesar do seu potencial, tem merecido, até hoje, pouca atenção, tanto pela comunidade académica como por parte dos diversos sectores económicos que operam na indústria turística. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório em que se pretende investigar quem é o turísta sénior português, quais as suas características e necessidades específicas, o que o leva a viajar e qual o contributo das instituições públicas e privadas para a promoção/apoio da prática do turismo por este segmento. Na vertente teórica, procurou-se definir os conceitos básicos; caracterizar o sénior enquanto indivíduo que entra numa nova fase, em que os sinais de envelhecimento se acentuam e o tempo-livre passa a ser uma potencial ameaça; e, finalmente, investigar o que é que está a ser criado e oferecido, nacional e internacionalmente, em termos de promoção do Turismo Sénior. Neste domínio é apresentado também o projecto “Férias Sénior”, dos Serviços Sociais da Administração Pública, em que o investigador permaneceu, em ambiente de trabalho, durante um ano consecutivo, com vista a ter um contacto directo com a população em estudo e decidir a linha de investigação a tomar. É no seguimento desta experiência que surge a abordagem prática deste trabalho, pesquisando-se o turista sénior português, através da aplicação de um inquérito com o intuito de conhecer as motivações do sénior para a prática do turismo, assim como as suas preferências e comportamentos de consumo turístico, tendo sido conseguida uma amostra de 200 pessoas com 55 anos ou mais. Os resultados mais relevantes indicam que o turista senior dá preferência a viajar em Portugal, com tempo quente, principalmente na região Norte e Algarve. Prefere os circuitos culturais e paisagísticos, turismo de saúde e bem-estar, de natureza e sol e mar. As principais motivações que levam o sénior a viajar são “experimentar coisas novas/visitar lugares novos”, “visitar museus e lugares históricos”, “procurar enriquecimento intelectual”, “recuperação física e mental”, “ficar com a família” e “descansar e relaxar”.
This paper focuses on the Senior Tour, a segment that, despite its potential, has received to date, very little attention both by the academic community and by the various economic sectors operating in the tourism industry. This is an exploratory study that aims to investigate who is the senior portuguese tourist, what are their characteristics and needs, which leads him to travel and what is the contribution of public and private institutions to promote/support the practice of tourism in this segment. In the theoretical model, it’s pretended to define the basic concepts, characterize the senior as an individual who enters in a new phase, in which the signs of aging are accentuated and the free time becomes a potential threat, and, finally, investigate what is being created and offered nationally and internationally, in terms of promotion of Senior Tourism. In this field is also presented the project “Férias Sénior” (Senior Holidays), promoted by Serviços Sociais da Administração Púbica (Government Social Services), where the researcher remained in the workplace for a year, in order to have direct contact with the population under study and decide the line of investigation to take. This experience leads to the practical approach of this work, studying the portuguese senior tourists, through the application of a survey to 200 persons aged 55 or more, in order to understand the motivations of senior to the practice of tourism, as well their preferences and behaviors on tourist consumption. The most relevant results indicate that the Portuguese senior tourist prefers to travel in Portugal, with hot weather, especially in the North and Algarve. Prefers cultural and landscape circuits tourism, health and wellness, nature, and beach tourism. The main motivations that lead the senior traveling is "try new things / visiting new places", "visiting museums and historic sites", "seek intellectual enrichment", "physical and mental recovery", "to stay with the family" and "rest and relax".

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Choi, Chi-kin Anthony, and 蔡志堅. "An evaluation of the Senior Citizen Residence scheme (SEN) : the effectiveness of facilitating the concept of ageing in place." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207666.

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Since the hygiene condition and medical services improved in the past few decades, the expectation of life has been lengthened generally. With the baby boom effect, the mass increase in fertility following the World War II result in the problem of ageing population around the world nowadays. The phenomenon alerts the governments of global countries to solve the anticipated ageing problem by catering the needs of the elderly. In addition, the needs of the elderly are changing with the improvement of education level and affluence level. It contributes to elderly in middle-class occupying a larger proportion of the elderly in Hong Kong nowadays. Even though the government has introduced various kind of social policies to deal with the increasing demand and changing needs of the elderly, it is still not enough to satisfy the rising aspiration of the middle-income elderly. In order to fill the market niche for the elderly in the middle-income group, the Hong Kong government invited Hong Kong Housing Society to undertake a tailor-made housing scheme for the elderly on a basis of leased-for-life. Under the Senior Citizen Residence Scheme (SEN), it aims to provide an affordable and quality accommodation with integrated service for the middle-income elderly. As the SEN scheme is built upon the concept of "ageing-in-place" and "continuum of care", it seeks to strike an excellent to enhance the quality of life for the elderly residents. Since the SEN scheme is a pilot project, it would be considered as a relatively new and initiative development of elderly housing project comparing to the overseas' housing development. It is valuable to carry out a comprehensive assessment on the achievement of the SEN scheme. As the scheme is developed upon the concept of "ageing-in-place" and "continuum of care", this paper will focus on assess the effectiveness of the scheme in facilitating the concept of ageing-in-place in various aspects. Also, it will investigate the effectiveness of the scheme in affecting the expectation on the future housing arrangement of the elderly. The result of the assessment would be provide a reference for the authority to foresee whether there is any improvement for further development of ageing-in-place policy. As a result, it believed that the assessment of this paper is significant to gives a recommendation for the development of the upcoming project to build a quality living place for the elderly to age-in-place.iii
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Gudmundsson, Magdalena. "Aging-in-place with ICT : A qualitative study of senior citizen users’ perception and acceptance towards Smart home technology." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-67074.

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This is a qualitative, interpretive research study of how six senior citizens’ aged 70-85 describe their use and need of Smart home technology for their independent living and welfare. Data was collected through technology probing and interviews. Data analysis was done using a thematic method. The research was underpinned by the theoretical model Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2). The research setting was senior citizens’ living in Care housing rented out by the municipality owned company. The findings show that technology is perceived by the senior citizens’ to be something must be taught and takes effort. Senior housing need to be better designed for its senior tenants. It was also found that if technology is used to ensure safety, fall detection for instance, trust and sufficient support is crucial. The findings suggest it could be difficult to assess your own need and to realize when assistance technology is needed. It also found that the use of technology was perceived as being individual and as something that cannot be treated collectively. It was suggested that health professionals do have some influence on the senior citizen and their use of technology. The findings of this study was compared to previous studies and how it relates to the determinants and moderating factors suggested by the theoretical model UTAUT2.

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Lee, Kar-yan Karen, and 李嘉欣. "An evaluation of the "Senior Citizen Residences Scheme" for themiddle-class elderly in Hong Kong: a casestudy of Jolly Place." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45008541.

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Dominguez, Garcia Heliéte [UNESP]. "A terceira idade e a Internet: uma questão para o novo milênio." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93716.

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Com o início do novo milênio, o Brasil passa por profundas transformações na sociedade. Estima-se que, em 2025, a cada cinco brasileiros um terá 60 anos. Os jovens de hoje estão preparados para lidarem com as novas tecnologias. No entanto, as gerações anteriores, consideradas atualmente da Terceira Idade, não tiveram esta formação e estão vivendo numa sociedade altamente informatizada. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos: Caracterizar o usuário potencial da Terceira Idade, quanto ao uso da Internet nos grupos da UNATI-UEL e do SENAC-Londrina; Identificar a utilização da Internet por usuários da Terceira Idade; Verificar se a Terceira Idade está familiarizada com a Internet e Detectar os sentimentos e aspirações dos usuários da Terceira Idade diante da Internet. A metodologia utilizada nesta pesquisa foi de estudo de caso, sob um enfoque quantitativo-qualitativo. Utilizamos questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas, diferentes para cada instituição estudada. Os resultados obtidos nos permitem concluir que: 1) ambos os grupos pesquisados compreendem a importância da utilização da Internet nos dias de hoje; 2) esta oferece maior facilidade e comodidade na realização de suas tarefas diárias; 3) traz informação e estimula a criatividade.
With the beginning of the new millennium, the Brazilian society is being transformed. It is believed that, by the year 2025, one in five Brazilian citizens will be 60 years old. The youngsters are prepared to deal with new technologies but the previous generations, which are currently considered to be the elderly, are not. In fact, they live in a society which is highly technological. Based on these facts, the purposes of this research are: to characterize the potential elderly user as for the use of the Internet in UNATI - UEL and SENAC - Londrina groups; to identify the use of the Internet by the elderly; to verify if the elderly are familiarized with the Internet and to detect their feelings and aspirations towards the Internet. The methodology used in this research was the case study under a qualitative-quantitative focus. A different questionnaire with open-ended and multiple choice questions was used for each institution studied in this research. The results obtained led us to the following conclusions: 1) both groups understand the importance of the use of the Internet nowadays; 2) it is easier and more comfortable for them to accomplish their daily tasks with the Internet; 3) the Internet brings information and stimulates creativity.

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Tu, Dumas Shu-Shyan, and 杜書賢. "Senior Citizen Intention of Using Wireless Technologies–The Case of Chang-Gung Senior Citizen Care." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03558987393946669731.

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碩士
長庚大學
企業管理研究所
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The wireless technologies are developing dramatically. The third generation (3G) telecommunication provides us with wider and faster bandwidth. More GPS and wireless devices are benefiting specific groups. So far it’s a pity that most service providers concentrate their major applications on Game, Gamble and Girl (poor 3G). The better bandwidth would benefit more than above. In the near future the population is changing. The growing senior citizens are belonging to the common group instead of the special one. If the wireless technology and its solutions could help this group, it would also help the rest of family and social members using more efficient ways in visible or invisible aspects. The growing population of senior citizens nowadays show its market or potential demand. If the useful wireless technologies could be afforded, why not supplying? Chang-Gung Senior Citizen Care Village would be the first one candidate who might own wireless services. The Wireless Service Provider would also be easier to calculate operation cost within specific zone. Though the supply of m-service within the village is not difficult, the demand of service contains varied contents. The following chapters assumed the conduct of wireless application from the aspects of Dr. Chang’s m-service and conclusions of Dr. Chen’s famous books. ANOVA and Logistic Regression are applied in this dissertation. It’s a pity that I didn’t study further on the ones who are paying for wireless technologies’ services? It’s because my major clients are senior citizens and they could not represent those ones. The ones who pay for the service bills and the senior ctitizens are obviously different. Due to resource constrains, I cannot allocate these two groups to visit in the same time. I strongly recommand someone take following steps to clarify this question. Most senior citizens have limited income and may not afford wireless technologies in the beginning or in the long run, if the service is not regarded as a kind of charity or donation. To finish this thesis is just a start. It’s a small step closer to my dream. A dream that wireless technologies really help the senior citizens would come true hereafter. 60 effective copies mean a lot to me. It is not only to represent each 30 min visit, but also to know more interactions and feelings about the senior citizens. May every senior citizen live well with the great help of wireless technologies!

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LIN, JIA-JING, and 林珈璟. "A Security System for Senior Citizen." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vsn8nh.

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碩士
國立虎尾科技大學
資訊工程系碩士班
106
Taiwan is gradually stepping into the aging society. The proportion of senior citizens grows year by year. In Taiwan, living in the care facilities is not popularly accepted by the senior citizens. Therefore, the number of living alone senior citizens grows quickly. Nowadays, the research topics on the senior citizens mainly focus on health monitoring, medical care, and life support, but fewer of them care about the home security. However, in the aging society, home security is an important issue before all the other issues. For the living alone senior citizens, we need to monitor the accidents occur in the home, the physical diseases of the senior citizens, and intruders to guarantee the safety of the senior citizens. By combining the technology of Internet of Things (IoT) and face recognition, we designed a Home Security System for senior citizens. The environmental information around the home, and the visitor's information are monitored. When the designed system detects the abnormal status of the senior citizens, the families and the related institutions will be notified immediately. When strangers appear in front of the door, the designed system will help the elders to determine whether the visitors can enter the house or not. The system will record related visiting information about the visitors and use statistics for helping the families of the senior citizens to detect the abnormal states of the visitors.

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PENG, KUANG-HONG, and 彭匡弘. "Decision Making of Senior Citizen and Family Reside at Senior Housing." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49730895607905103952.

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碩士
中華大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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According to the second article of Senior Citizens Welfare Act, people above an age of 65 years is defined as senior.Along with improvement of medical treatment,the life expectancy is increasing year by year. Due to the low birth rate,the average age is raising significantly,stated by Taiwan's aging index,and according to the State National Development Council information,in 2016,the population of 65 years and older will first time reach beyond the population of the group of 14-year-old and younger (Council for Economic Planning And Development, 2012).Sooner or later, seniors will have to take care of themselves.As this phenomenon getting more urgent than ever,government and companies have begun to concern more about the improvement of nursing issue and living standard for the seniors.Along with the shift of social and economical aspect,people nowadays are willing to live in nursing home or high quality institutions, intending to manage their own senior lives.Under this circumstance, nursing homes have emulated the western style, and tend to transform into a hotel-like communities,in order to satisfy the raising expectation about nursing institutions.Through this research,we expect to understand the willingness of living in "Health Village" and the factors behind.In addition, by analyzing the data collected, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the "Health Village",and the result can further be used as an indication for future study and recommendation for “Health Village" management. In this study,individual background properties and dimensions of each factor to explore seniors and their families to stay self-cultivation Village differences and occupancy will.In this study, the northern part of Taiwan of 40 families and senior citizens over the age of parent groups, mining stratified random sampling, issued a total of 350 questionnaires, 320 questionnaires were recovered after issuance,excluding seven invalid questionnaires, a total of 313 valid questionnaires, resulting an 89.43 percent effective rate. Collected questionnaires were then analyzed through statistical software SPSS to perform descriptive statistical analysis,reliability analysis, one-way analysis of variance, correlation analysis and regression analysis.In summary, for ancestral home, there are significant differences to keep in mind.Talking about gender and identity, there are no significant differences in Health Village occupancy will,where financial security stays to be the highest influence. The environmental perception,service quality and institutional norms have less impact; while subjective norms achieve significant influence; and piety ethics has negative correlation.

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Bian, Goh Siew, and 吳秀綿. "A Senior Citizen (Elderly person) Emotional Adjustment." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54155092330376186105.

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碩士
國立暨南國際大學
輔導與諮商研究所
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This study is designed to explore the emotional adjustment of an elderly person (Senior Citizen) which covers the effect of the emotional factors, factors affecting the elderly people’s emotion and the use of appropriate strategies for coping with the adjustment. It will include an in-depth interview in which the results hope to serve as a guide to provide psychological counseling and community mental health education. The method of the study is based on the phenomenology of the qualitative research and a verbatim transcription of information on the interviews with records, conduct one-to-one interview which the participant was invited to share one’s perceptions and perspectives about one’s life experiences in which data and reports were collected and analyzed to enhance the interpretation of the materials. The results of the research and findings showed the factors affecting an old age people include physical health, living environmental stress, economical problems, financial disputes, interpersonal relationship, the changing role and status, social isolation, not being respected, loss due to distress, arising of negative emotions, resulting in the depression. However through the help of medications, informal social supports (family members and relatives), formal social supports (organizations and nursing homes) and religious beliefs, one will begin to feel more accepted, gain respect and dignity, find new hope and discover that life is more meaningful and worth living. With all the help, support and actions taken to facilitate adaptation, one’s life will be replaced by joy, peace and hope. Finally based on the outcome of the research, findings and discussions on emotional adjustment of elderly people, suggestions and recommendations were proposed to enhance and facilitate counseling services and acts as a reference for future research.

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Lu, Mei-Hsuan, and 盧玫璇. "Challenges of designing travel packages for senior citizen market." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qhbcer.

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Yeh, Nei-Ching, and 葉乃靜. "Information and the lives of senior citizens in a residential home: A case study of Taipei City Chao-Ju Senior Citizen Home, Taiwan." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13202060414507635990.

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博士
國立臺灣大學
圖書資訊學研究所
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Following the country’s rapid social changes, more and more senior citizens in Taiwan live in various kinds of residential homes. However, the information behavior of these senior citizens is rarely studied. This research reports a study of the information behavior of senior citizens in a residential home. The focus of this study is to explore the relationships between information and senior citizens’ lives. “Taipei City Chao-Ju Senior Citizen Home” was selected as the site of this study. Data are collected by direct observations and in-depth interviews. Participatory observations were conducted between April 2002 and December 2002. By December 15, 2002, there were thirty-six residents (14 were male and 22 were female), aged from 65 to 92, were interviewed. According to the findings, senior citizens’ lives can be constituted by five categories of activities: life activities, interpersonal interaction, health maintenance, recreational activities, and emotional activities. The functions of information for senior citizens in a residential home were four fold: enriching life, accomplishing goals, solving problems, and giving expression to one’s feelings. Although information was meaningful for half of the respondents, the other half of the interviewed residents did not feel that information was useful to them in their lives. The more apparent forces impacting senior citizens’ lives include philosophy of life, personality, how they grew up, life arrangement, and age. With regard to the features of respondents’ information use, findings reveal that respondents like audio-visual types of information. The characteristics of information that respondents need are twofold: practical and subjective. Based on the results, the authors devised four concepts and six propositions to describe the information behavior of senior citizens.

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Tung, Chin-Hao, and 董子豪. "The Study of Senior Citizen''s Products and Loneliness Economy." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32865530231031248721.

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碩士
元智大學
管理研究所
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“Baby boomers” are getting old, which indicates the era of “elder boom” is coming. “Spirituality” are the key factors influencing senior citizen’s consumer behaviors. What they truly hope is relationships built by frequent interactions that may improve life qualia and be psychological comfort instead of product’s commercial impact. “Feelings” of “group interactions” can be seen valuable to help elders not to feel lonely. Importantly, they can also encourage “experiencing” and “transforming”. It could be asserted that the commercial impact that senior citizen products have is much greater than traditional products and services. “Social support” can be viewed as a decisive factor motivating elders to “successful aging”. In the “process of creating product value”, the business organizations which can meet elder customers’ needs can share the “social and philanthropic responsibilities” and win the loyalty from customers. They would be also willing to pay a higher price for buying products and enjoying their added values, which could increase a great amount of revenue for business organizations. Such business organizations, therefore, may enhance their competitiveness and further more become the most successful ones during the “loneliness economy”. As for managing systems, managers should establish an organizational culture of humanity care, develop a mutual trust relationship and increase employees’ and customers’ participation in strengthening group relationships. That is expected to create values for customers, employees, organizations, society, culture and economy. This study has applied qualitative research and selected community business groups and elder customers to be the focus groups for research. Five phases have been gone through to interpret the research concept structure, which consist of deep-rooted demands, content provision, role media, managing systems and valuable contribution. This approach is to concretely present relevant contents and phenomena and then can be referred by decision makers in organization.

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Teng, Li-Nung, and 滕禮濃. "Emotional Effect of Make Up on Senior Citizen of Taiwan." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n6bmm7.

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碩士
東方設計大學
時尚美妝設計系
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In 2018, Taiwan Society had been into Ageing Society since 14.05% of population is elder people. Therefore, the community service for elder people is urgent. Make up is not just to make us to become beauty, it is also have mental effect. The Japan Shiseido company had established a Center to evaluate the benefit of Make Up on mental during 80s of last century. They found that make up activity had positive effect on the psychological and physiological effects on senior citizen. They defined it as cosmetic camouflage on elder people. There was few related study in Taiwan. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the emotional effect of make up on Taiwan senior citizen. There were 10 elder people of Nanzi District of Kaohsiung City, who age above 65, had volunteered to participated this study. They had been divided into 3 groups, and accepted the make up on particularly date. Each participant will had 4 times of make up’s experience during the study. After the each time of make up’s experience, the questions will be taken to evaluate the emotional effect of the participant. Results showed that the participants were looked forward to the make up’s experience. The main reasons for the elder people to look forward to the make up’s experience were “can be look beauty after make up’s experience”, “like the look after make up’s experience” and “to learn how to make up”. Each the above 3 reasons had been mentioned 4 times. On the other hands, the mood of the participants had been good after the make up’s experience. The main reason that the mood of the participants had been good was “be praised by the other people”, which had been mentioned totally 5 times. Study also showed that the senior citizen were like to interact with other people after the make up’s experience. The main reason was “be praised by the other people after the make up’s experience”, which had been totally mentioned 18 times. The second frequently reasons were “have the subject of talk with other people”. All the participants were responded that they were willing to participate the activity again. The main reasons were “can learn how to make up” and “will look beauty after the make up’s experience”, of which had been mentioned 9 times and 7 times, respectively. In conclusion, the study showed that the make up’s experience had positive effect on the emotion of senior citizen. Therefore, make up related activity was suggested to be frequently organized for the elder people. Keywords: make up, emotion effect, senior citizen, elder people

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Chen, Su-Guan, and 陳素觀. "The Study of Electronic Newspaper Reading Behavior of Senior Citizen." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84474852767479746291.

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碩士
南華大學
文化創意事業管理學系文創行銷碩士班
103
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of information and electronic reading device as well as the motivation of reading epaper of senior and pre-senior citizens. This study will also explore whether the usage of electronic reading device can enhance the senior citizens’ willto read epaper; in this way, the author can give suggestions and provide the strategies to promote the rate of reading epaper,and also provide the message for the senior citizens that they can expand their information searching experience. 　　The study was conducted through question naire survey. According to literature review, the "The Reading Motivation and Reading Behavior of Senior Citizens Use Consumer Electronics to Read Epaper Questionnaire" was made, and 200 samples were surveyed with a ratio of 94.42% usable samples. The population of this study are the senior citizens who live in Chiayi and Yunlin region, and those who have experiences of using computer. The statistical techniques were descriptive statistics, factor ananysis, reliability analysis, t-test, analysis of variance ANOVA, and Chi-square test. 　　The results of this study show that senior citizens’ approval rating of using electronic reading device haspositive correlation and significant influence tosenior citizens’ motivation of reading epaper. Most senior citizens still uselaptops and computers. According to the results, his study proposed suggestions for educational training organizations that the introduction of smartphone and tabletinto the course can increase the acceptace of epaper reading; the electronic reading device designers can improve the convenience for senior citizens; and the publisher of epaper can classify the epaper contents according to the age of readers. 　　At last, this study suggests the designers, the epaper, and educational training organizations should encourage reading epaper byusing electronic reading devices together.

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VANČUROVÁ, Alena. "Problematika umisťování seniorů do domovů pro seniory." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-252472.

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The thesis deals with problems connected with the placement of senior citizens into homes for the elderly. The objectives of the thesis are to find out how long the waiting period for the placement into a home for senior citizens is and which obstacles and problems connected with the placement into homes for the elderly appear. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on some demographic trends, the opinion of the Czech population about the old age and senior citizens, history of social services for senior citizens in the Czech Republic and abroad, and the current offer of social services for senior citizens. In this part, I also describe the process of placing of senior citizens into homes for the elderly and the services which homes for the elderly offer to their clients; I also focus on the senior citizens´ financial reimbursement of board and lodging in homes for the elderly. The research was conducted by means of quantitative and qualitative methods and techniques. In the qualitative research, I deal with the second part of my goal identifying obstacles to placement in homes for the elderly. Firstly, I set the following research questions: 1) What are the obstacles and problems in the process of placing senior citizens into homes for the elderly? and 2) Do senior citizens have any other options of care instead of the care in homes for the elderly? Then, I conducted semi-standardized interviews with 3 social workers, 8 senior citizens and with 3 members of families which put their senior citizens into homes for the elderly. I asked all of them almost identical questions to be able to compare their responses later. The results show that nowadays, dependent senior citizens who have no other option of care are more likely to be placed into homes for the elderly. The answers to the question "What are the obstacles and problems when placing senior citizens into homes for the elderly?" were rather variable and they cannot be generalized. The quantitative part of my research relates to the first part of my goal. Here I primarily focused on the waiting period. The following two hypotheses were set for the research. H1: Senior citizens negatively evaluate the waiting period for their placement into homes for the elderly. H2: Senior citizens know only one possibility of care homes for the elderly. To verify the above hypotheses, I used the method of secondary analysis of the data taken from the client's documentation and the method of controlled conversation. Therefore, I conducted my research in the following homes for the elderly: Home for the elderly Light in Písek, Home for the elderly Bechyně, Home for the elderly Diaconia Centre ČCE Blanka in Písek, Home for the elderly Centre for Social Assistance Vodňany. Social workers in each facility advised me to use the greatest possible number of clients who were oriented and able to answer my questions. In total, I analyzed 100 files of personal documentation and then I conducted the structured interviews with the analysed clients in the homes for the elderly which are mentioned above. The average waiting period was 243 days. In the category of the waiting period shorter than 1 month there were 26 senior citizens; from 1 to 2 months 33 senior citizens; from 3 to 4 months 11 senior citizens; longer than 5 months 30 senior citizens. 79 senior citizens rated their waiting periods positively, but 21 senior citizens rated their waiting periods negatively. 56 senior citizens had some knowledge about other possibilities of care; most of them reported the nursing service (54 responses); homes with nursing (8 responses); personal assistance (3 responses); pensions for senior citizens (1 response).

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SUNG, SHING-MAE, and 宋興梅. "The Development of Resilience 〜 A Life Story of a Senior Citizen." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vu696g.

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碩士
南開科技大學
福祉科技與服務管理所
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The growing aging population in Taiwan has lead to a rise in the number of research on senior-related issues and senior services across the country to address their pressing needs. Consequently, senior physical and mental health issues have gained much wider recognition by society at large. This paper aims to investigate the development of resilience in seniors by using the life of an octogenarian as the framework to understand how resilience and adaptation to life’s unexpected challenges help reshape one’s priorities and value system. This research also delves into the width and breadth of one’s resilience with implications that reach far beyond an individual’s physical and psychological wellbeing. The subject of this study is an 83-yeard old female born and raised in mainland China. At the age of 17, she was separated from her family during the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and ended up in Taiwan, where she eventually settled down, never seeing her family again for over 40 years. Through countless hours of in-depth interviews, the researcher recorded faithfully every detail of the subject’s life stories from childhood to the present time. This case study examines how a young girl survived poverty at home and the civil war in an unknown island with courage and perseverance. It demonstrates the development of resilience in a senior citizen through analysis and supportive evidence. In addition, based on the study results, the researcher has made recommendations regarding life-time planning and learning for seniors to educators, social workers, or anyone who plans to enter the counseling profession.

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HÁLOVÁ, Jana. "Rozdíly v pohledu na domov pro seniory před a po umístění klienta." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-188821.

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The diploma thesis Perception of a Retirement Home before and after Client's Admission deals with elderly people's decision to go to a retirement home and their subsequent life in a retirement home. The diploma thesis is divided into two parts theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part focuses on aging and old age, quality of life, autonomy, modern families and elderly care at home as well as in institutions. The chapter Aging, Old Age and the Elderly explains the terms "aging" and "old age". Next, it also describes the changes that occur during old age, how the elderly manage to adapt to these changes and what is their attitude toward old age. From the nursing perspective, the senior citizens can be divided into following categories: able, fragile, dependent, completely dependent and dying. According to this division, the level of care for the elderly can be determined. However, it is vital to maintain acceptable life quality among the elderly as well as respect their real needs. Not only basic physiological needs have to be satisfied, but also higher-level needs cannot be overlooked, such as safety, security, love, acceptance, belonging, respect, recognition and personal fulfillment. One of the next main aspects that also should be taken into account is personal autonomy. Personal autonomy includes independence and freedom. It is self-sufficiency of an individual related to his or her possibilities, abilities and willingness to seize the choices and opportunities that life offers. People have the right to make independent decisions and establish or carry out them in their social environment. In general, people are considered to be autonomous individuals when they manage and organize their own activities without help of anyone else, are able to satisfy their physiological needs, stand up for their opinions and do not enforce approval, closeness and emotional support. They should not excessively fear other people or even feel guilty. If elderly people are no longer self-sufficient due to any reason, it is necessary to provide them with comprehensive care. Elderly people should be entitled to choose their preferred form of care. Elderly care can be provided in clients' private environment, by their family or by field social work. If the elderly do not have a family or it is not possible to take care of them in their home, a housing facility called a retirement home can be used. A retirement home helps its clients with following: accommodation, meals, assistance with daily self-care tasks, personal hygiene or arrangement for personal hygiene, maintaining contacts with social environment, activating tasks and enforcing rights and interests (for instance assistance in dealing with authorities, communicating with various companies, etc.). The aim of the empirical part of the thesis was to determine how the elderly perceive the retirement home before their admission and after adaptation. A secondary aim was to identify the views of family members on changes in the behavior of the elderly after their placement in a retirement home. With regard to the objectives of the thesis, a qualitative research method has been chosen which allows to examine the area in depth. The research was conducted by a survey method (a semi-structured interview). The research was conducted in two retirement homes in South Bohemia. The research group consisted of 10 respondents aged from 60 to 88 years. The target group was selected by quota sampling. The respondents consisted of clients without loss of cognitive abilities placed in a retirement home who could remember their idea about the retirement home before entering it. Another target group were family members of the individual interviewed clients. The diploma thesis states questions related to the research areas.

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Lin, Cheng-hung, and 林成宏. "Exploring the older senior citizen''s viewpoint of information technology." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88373031612270634345.

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碩士
南華大學
資訊管理學系碩士班
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With the development of information technology, many elders have to keep up with its progressing pass in order to avoid some of life''s problems. In this study, we were participating in the older senior citizen’s computer-learning courses. By observing, interviewing and collecting questionnaires, we try to explore the older senior citizen’s viewpoints of interacting with information technology. Based on the statistical results of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Perceived Ease of use (PE) is the major factor to keep the older senior citizen on learning Behavior Intention continuously (BI) whereas Perceived Usefulness (PE) is not showing its significant impact on BI. It also supports the similar findings of Lin (2006). This phenomenon is a great contrast to that of non-seniors, which shows that PE will decline its impact on BI whereas PU takes the lasting impact on BI. On the other hand, we found that older senior citizens prefer easily learning to having a lot of contents or complicated step by means of qualitative studies. It seems that memory degradation''s problems shown with the older senior citizen is the important factor. Further study is worth to be conducted.

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陳素鳳. "Project Development Research for Senior Citizen Learning in Taiwan Universities and Colleges." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80729818069858451616.

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博士
高雄師範大學
成人教育研究所
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The purpose of this study aims to proceed to in-depth exploration which targets to the implementation experiences about home stay learning, short term learning, and semester system projects for senior citizens learning program in universities and colleges during 2008~2010, to analyze the current situation and experience of uncovered difficulties and problem resolution strategies, and to summarizes the construction of colleges for senior citizens to learn in the mode of implementation of the program development. The research method was applied by interview in twenty-five projects undertakers from 21 universities nationwide in the northern, central, southern, and eastern districts were interviewed within 3 years. Here are made some implementation modes and conclusion from undertakers’ point of view. The results can be as a reference to the development of colleges for senior citizens learning program. In addition, it could be contributed to the Ministry of Education in the promotion of colleges for senior citizens learning. In accordance with the research conclusion, it has been proposed major findings and recommendations as the followings: Major research findings (1). The current status for colleges sponsoring senior citizen learning projects, experiences, and problems Overall, the participation rate of senior citizens learning program in colleges continues to grow. Private schools are more enthusiastic than public schools. The fast growth is in the promotion of education sector. When the most schools implement the projects, they are constantly modified as “Learning by doing” to reveal their creativity, organization adjustment, development the related resource and to overcome the difficulties. Hence, the most students are quite satisfied, and teachers and administrative staff have accumulated experience and capabilities of senior citizens learning. However, in the level of administrative organization, the undertaker has not been defined yet. Adult education units are lack of experience and capabilities in the administrative integration and enrollment marketing. For the professional concept of senior citizens education, it becomes doubtful for education promotion units between two sides to the concept of dispute. In the human resource area, the professional teaching resources, planning or implementation talents required for senior citizen education were not prior established with appropriate cultivation and certification systems and it was found prevalent with implementation teams that were not professional nor vocationally and task-oriented specific enough and this resulted with a multitude of aftermath difficulties. Financial development and recruitment marketing aspects remained as the weakest links for education organization whereas in the learning environment, the hardware equipments including dormitories, classrooms, toilets, lifts and all of the accessible and friendly space conditions were found inadequate at best which demanded carefully planned risk-control mechanism and reinforcement in a remedial sense. In teaching aspect, each school was found severely lack of teaching talents dedicated to senior citizen education and under this premise, the educational strategies and techniques thus required more training curriculums, pre-class studies or seminars to sustain or even demanding consulting center to seek for resolution strategies at an on-demand basis. As for curriculum design and learning type, these were found with constant changes and innovations. (2) Viable strategies for problem resolutions in sponsoring senior citizen learning project at universities and colleges From the experience of sponsor, it must have administrative integration, enrollment marketing, and program project planning capabilities of professional literacy and philosophy for senior citizens. The organization needs to change its strategy such as: Establish dedicated “Senior citizen learning platform or office” or outsource management personnel and team-oriented enterprise operations. Universities and colleges located in metro area and rural surrounding location innately are handicapped by geographical locations and traffic inaccessibility which require added shuttle bus services. In the learning aspect, the learning environment could not match to the standards demanded by desired environmental friendliness for senior citizen learning; and these required substitute strategies for senior citizen learning dynamics specifically in aspects like improvement planning, reinforcement and the planning stage. As for the learning project and curriculum design for senior citizen at university level, it must have market segmentation characteristic that can differentiate between itself and similar senior citizen education institutions and proceeding to research and development for uniquely innovative thematic curriculum projects or engaging in competing strategic alliance; and these should be strategies worthwhile to ponder. (3) Implementation model for constructing senior citizen learning project development in universities and colleges This research has reviewed the three-year implementation statuses and experiences and used them as bases for ensuing in-depth explorations. Afterwards, five core concepts like “scenarios analyses”, “goal setting”, “activity planning”, “implementation” and “assessment” were subsequently developed as the skeleton with research findings generated from vital work contents as the structural diagrams during each phase. Lastly, these are summarized into project development implementation models for senior citizen learning targeting to universities and colleges. Within the structural diagrams at different levels, it provides these learning project developments with clarified pointers at each implementation process, including vital items in scenario analysis, evaluation elements for goal setting, precise procedures during activity planning, and the exploration findings in aspects like administrative organization, learning and teaching for implementation project as well as different approaches at appraisal phases that become a set of implantation mode as reference applications. Recommendations 1. Recommendations to universities and colleges It is recommended that the summation of implementation model for project development in senior citizen learning within universities and colleges could be served as an operational guide during project implementation phase. It is also recommended that during developing senior citizen learning project, it should review and cultivate a learning environment that possesses ideas, qualities and safety friendliness for senior citizen education in addition to cost-conscious and a brand-new system for senior citizen learning. In both teaching and learning aspects, the professionalized mechanism, project planners, implementation personnel and teaching talents with required professional knowhow must be pre-established for senior citizen learning project. And self-sponsored seminars, advancement studies or workshops prior the actual class sessions are also encouraged. 2.Recommendations for institutions that govern university education and administration It is recommended that Ministry of Education or civilian related organizations be providing talent cultivation as well as certification systems. Conceptual approaches studied by the competent authorities such as “educator for the senior citizen”, “learning planner for senior citizen” and “consultant center for senior citizen university”, etc, should be made available for renewed discussion as well as be implemented by other academic institutions or nonprofit organizations. As for ensuing phases, when universities and colleges have already accumulated enough implementation experiences and reinforced professional knowhow, the Ministry of Education could grant the schools with even more flexibility, latitudes and encouraging initiatives by focusing on the characteristic curriculum development at each school, and provide diversified subsidies based upon the merits from project differentiation.

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Lin, Kun-Jun, and 林坤畯. "The Effect of Taiwan’s Nation Health Insurance on Mortality of Senior Citizen." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f4j48j.

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碩士
國立嘉義大學
應用經濟學系研究所
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In this study, cities and counties in Taiwan 24 years of tracking data (Panel data), analysis of the implementation of national health insurance, the impact of mortality for the elderly, the study will be divided into national, rural and urban three groups, and and overall mortality in young adults as a control group of residents to explore the differences. In this paper, family status, health resources, socio-economic conditions, the quality of people and health care policy implementation or not, try to analyze what factors will affect the elderly mortality. The results showed that: (a) the implementation of national health insurance for the elderly has a positive help to reduce mortality, especially in rural areas, but in urban areas had no significant impact; (b) family status, whether rural or urban , the overall effect of income has little effect on mortality, even while the proportion of high and low, will not have a significant impact on mortality in the elderly; (c) the overall health care resources and mortality rates have a negative relationship between rural areas in health care after the implementation of health care resources for the elderly reduce mortality did not significantly help, but the city's medical resources in the health care there after the implementation of a significant negative correlation that exists between urban and rural areas the problem of uneven distribution of medical resources; (d) social the conditions in the city's unemployment rate higher for the elderly does not affect mortality, and mortality in the elderly income distribution is no significant change; (e) in the city, the higher the quality of people, the death of the elderly significantly lower rate of help in the countryside there is no significant difference. Therefore recommended that the Government should seek to improve the gap between urban and rural health care resources, balance between urban and rural development and commitment to economic development and increase people's income, and thus enhance the welfare of the people.

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CHUANG, YA-HUI, and 莊雅慧. "Narrating Life Images of a Self-made Senior Citizen Through Life Review." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tm8dz4.

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碩士
南開科技大學
福祉科技與服務管理所
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Human life is a story, one that contains people's life experiences and conveys the trueness and richness of life. The elderly represent the accumulation of life experiences and the crystallization of wisdom. Every old man owns his unique meaning. This study uses "Life Review" as the main axis for exploring the life of a self-made male born in the 1940s in Taiwan by way of narrative inquiry, to record his life images, to understand the path of his life construction, and to capture the precious historical data of his life. The researcher explained the purpose of the study to the research participant first and interviewed him according to the semi-structured interview outline after he agreed and signed the consent form. The researcher recorded the elder’s oral history to understand his life experience, to explore the relevance of the events in his narrations, and to interpret the meaning of the elder’s life story through an analysis of the life narrative text. The first finding of the analysis was children born in the 1940s in Taiwan had an initial life attitude of "fatalism", but they were not willing to yield to fate. The second finding was men attach much importance to personal achievements and career development. Third, the male role in the course of life will be changed by the great twists and turns of life. Fourth, the life of the male showed the toughness of life. Fifth, religious beliefs brought the elderly peace and strength. In this paper, we can understand an elderly man’s life experiences in the broader context through his life review and build self-identity to achieve self-understanding and self-consolidation by narrating. It provided the elderly self-creation and a healing effect. The researcher recommended Community Care Center or Elderly Learning Center to promote this activity and leave unique and precious records for the elderly.

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LIU, FENG-YING, and 劉鳳英. "Explore The Senior Citizen Society Participation of Interpersonal Relationship In Aging Society." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c9xshf.

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碩士
育達科技大學
文化創意設計研究所
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The society participation of senior citizen is one of the factors to maintain the healthy aging of the silver community. It is closely related to the mental and physical health of the senior citizen and their quality of life. How to make senior citizen society participation in the community activities continuously, find out the causes of the contribution and influence of the community to senior citizen , and improve the willingness of senior citizen to participate in and interact with the community is an important topic to be considered in the aging society. This study explored the influence and contribution of the community to senior citizen , conducted interviews with 13 senior citizen members in Taiwan, and collected and verified the data through qualitative research in-depth interview. Understand the needs of senior citizen for community and activity participation, and integrate the influence of senior citizen on community participation and the aging society. The study found senior citizen are not willing to bear the pressure and responsibilities after retirement and want to live a relaxed life. Community participation is highly motivated. It mainly focuses on self-learning and volunteer service, and mainly aims at interpersonal interaction and experience inheritance. Senior citizen ethnic group is quite concerned about whether the society is profitable or not. They hope that the society does not have profit-making activities and can volunteer to avoid conflicts of interest and business pressure. Senior citizen needs for the community are mainly based on interpersonal interaction, learning, growth and inheritance of life experience, making contributions to the society and taking interpersonal interaction as the main purpose Keywords: Senior Citizen, Society Participation, Society Participation Attitude,Interpersonal relationship

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Diako, Bongani H. "Readiness for banking technologies by senior citizen banking clients / Bongani H Diako." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15773.

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The objective of this study was to determine the technological readiness of senior citizen bank customers and their banking technology adoption behaviours. In particular, the purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between technology readiness and age seniority as a moderator. A quantitative research methodology was adopted for this exploratory research study, where a survey was administered with a population of 70 senior citizen bank customers residing in old age centres in Gauteng and North-West provinces. A small proportion of the study's respondents comprised or senior citizen bank customers resident in private homes in Mafikeng, North West. The findings of the study revealed that senior citizen bank customers of the South African banks who have access to technology based banking services and products are ready for banking technologies. The study also revealed that senior citizen bank customers currently only have access to, and use of, basic banking technology services and products that include a bank account, landline telephone banking and ATMs. ln addition, the study found that senior citizen bank customers of the South African Banks that have access to technology based banking services and products have higher desirability to learn more about technology banking products and services, are concerned about the safety of banking technologies which affect their level of trust on them. Further, the study found that this segment of bank customers does not have adequate access to information on new banking technology innovations that is tailored to their unique traits prompting a need for the marketing efforts of the banks to target segment of bank clients with customised marketing strategies.
Thesis (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2011

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Chen, Chin-Min, and 陳勤敏. "A Study of the Operational Strategy of Excellent Senior Citizen Welfare Organizations." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33563148602849165569.

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碩士
元智大學
資訊社會學研究所
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The main purpose of this study is to examine the status and development of the operation of excellent senior citizen welfare organizations, to understand the operational strategy of the operators and to construct applicable operational-strategic models in the hope of promoting the service quality of senior citizen welfare organizations. Adopting the In-depth Interview Method of qualitative research, this study focuses on organizations from the north, the central and the south, evaluated to be excellent in 2007 by the government, as its research subjects and selects 7 organization operators, 3 residents of the organization and 2 professionals for in-depth interviews. As the results of the study show, due to essential differences in finance, scale, philosophy and ideas, these excellent senior citizen welfare organizations enjoy different competitive edges and demonstrate different operational styles. An excellent senior citizen welfare organization will specify its ideas, procedures and values during its course of operation and produce a nonmalignant interactive norm with the society. The following five factors related to the operational strategy of excellent senior citizen welfare organizations are constructed based on the results of the study: 1. specific target market and orientation strategy; 2, sufficient and good-quality care workforce strategy; 3. diverse leisure and recreational activity strategy; 4. people-oriented service strategy; 5. evaluation cooperation for the pursuit of excellence strategy. These five factors compose the ‘flying wheel strategy’ for the operation of an organization. In other words, the operation of the organization will be difficult at the beginning, just like the first lap of the wheel is also the most difficult part, yet after the organization successfully positions the market, the ‘flying wheel effect’ exerts itself for its operation, pushing the organization on the right track and enabling the organization to a sustainable development under an institutionalized operation. Lastly, the study recommends that since senior citizens admitted to a welfare organization tend to form a passive attitude towards life, it is advisable that organizations should provide them with more social support programs so that they may enjoy a fuller and happier life. In addition, the government should also timely revise relevant legal regulations based on the development of the market in order to meet the actual needs of the operation of an organization. Keywords：senior citizen welfare organization, new institutionalism, resource dependence, empowerment, compeititve advantage

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Huang, Sheng-Cheng, and 黃聖証. "The research of senior citizen welfare, nursing care, and reeducation in Japan." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20601917474188836129.

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WU, YA-JU, and 吳雅茹. "Research on the Relationship between Participation Motivation and Life Satisfaction of Senior Citizen Contribution Service Courses- The Case of the Senior Citizens Learning Center in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tpqka3.

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碩士
國立高雄師範大學
成人教育研究所
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The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between the elderly’s motivation to participate in contribution service course in the senior citizens learning center and their life satisfaction. And analyze the difference between the motivation of participation in the contribution service courses and life satisfaction for senior students of different backgrounds. The study adopts a questionnaire survey method. A total of 466 valid questionnaires were collected for the participants who continued to participate in the contribution service courses for more than two years. The research tool was revised by the researcher "A questionnaire on the motivation and life satisfaction of senior citizens participating in the contribution service courses". The survey results were analyzed by descriptive statistics, single-factor analysis of variance, t-test and Pearson's product-difference correlation and multiple stepwise regression. The main results and findings of this study are as follows: 1. The motivation to participate in the contribution service courses of senior citizens of the senior citizens learning center is above the average. 2. The life satisfaction of senior citizens of the senior citizens learning center is above the average. 3.There are significant differences in the motivation for participation among senior citizens of different ages and marital status. The ages of 75-84 and 55-64 were significantly higher than those of the 65-74 age group. Married senior citizens were also more motivated to participate in the curriculum than other groups. 4.There is a significant difference in life satisfaction among senior citizens of different ages and marital status. The older students have a higher degree of life satisfaction, and those who have a marriage relationship have higher life satisfaction. 5.There is no significant difference in the participation motivation and life satisfaction among older senior citizens of senior citizens learning center with different gender, educational level, economic status and health status. 6.There is a significant positive correlation between senior citizens' motivation for participation in service courses and life satisfaction. As a result of this study, the senior citizens of the senior citizens learning center are more motivated to participate in the contribution service courses and their life satisfaction is higher. Based on this result, we suggest that senior citizens should take the initiative to actively participate in learning and contribute to improve their life satisfaction.

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Gauthier, Jacqueline J. "An analysis of service availability and life satisfaction of senior citizen apartment dwellers." 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/9793.

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Lien, Chun-Jie, and 連俊傑. "The Study of Lifestyle Clusters in Urban Senior Citizen Complex in Jhulun Taipei." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qb3a8h.

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國立臺北科技大學
建築與都市設計研究所
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According to the statistics from Taiwan Ministry of Interior in 1993, the percentage of senior citizens (the percentage of those over 65s in Taiwan population) is reaching 7%, turning into an aging society. By November 2007, the percentage of senior citizens is up to 10.2%; the population of senior citizens is over 2.33 million. However, Taiwan senior citizen complexes need much more improvements in both living surroundings and facilities. Under the changes of family structure and social environment, senior citizens move into the apartments, but the process of moving in and the changes in life style both affect those seniors psychologically and physically. How to assist the seniors to build a better interpersonal relationship and thus re-construct the sense of home and community through” minimizing the space organization” and “developing diverse space” become an significant issue. Thus, this thesis analyzes the connection between lifestyle clusters and space levels from the aspect of environment behavior. Furthermore, the mutual influence between individual life and social activities in senior citizen apartments is also discussed. Through the thoughts and life experience of the seniors, this paper proposes practical improvements and the layout of life clusters in the apartments. By looking into the seniors’ participation in social activities , the scale of space they use and the average time of staying in apartments, the life styles of the seniors can be categorized into three types: the indoors , the sociable and the outdoors. From the aspect of activities, the outdoors seniors are more diverse than the sociable. The activities of the indoors are dull, compared with the other two types. The group of the sociable has more opportunities to encage in social interactions with others whereas those in the groups of the sociable and the outdoors have less social activities. Based on the current regulations of standard facilities and designs of senior citizen complex, this paper divides the designs for lifestyle clusters in the apartments into 3 layers—inhabitation unit, basic cluster and life cluster. Furthermore, analyzing the seniors’ behaviors from the aspect of space and organization, the lifestyle clusters of the seniors can be divided into four categories—inhabitation unit, small cluster, basic life cluster and life cluster, which are elaborated as below. 1. The main concern in the design of inhabitation units focuses on how to support the seniors to have an independent life through better designs of living space. The designs should consider the diversity of the seniors’ lives, providing ample living space and facilities as well as suitable interior designs for couples. 2. Small clusters are the core combination of inhabitation units, which consist of four to six units. Through sharing living space, each unit gets acquainted with each other and thus builds up neighbor relationships as well as sense of belonging. 3. Basic life clusters refer to the independent living space for the seniors, offering them the space and facilities in daily life, such as public dinning rooms, kitchens, washing machines, living rooms, entertainment rooms and balconies. The clusters are built up by two to three small clusters. 4. Life clusters stand for the social life for the seniors. These groups provide them entertainment and social activities which increase the opportunities of getting to know each other. According to the plan for senior citizen complexes, when three basic life clusters constitute a life cluster, it is necessary to have multi-functional recreation rooms and public space for outdoors activities. Regard to private space, semi-public space and public space, due to the trend of space-minimizing, the quantity of individual inhabitation units should be reduced and enlarge the dimensions of apartments. The total dimensions should be 40% lower than floor dimensions, which increases the space of semi-public and public space. The dimensions of semi-public space should be 20% higher than total floor dimensions. Public space should be adjusted according to the scale of complexes, around 15% of total dimension. Senior citizen complex is one of the housings for the seniors. Urban senior citizen apartments have small scales and communities as well as convenient transportation which help to prolong and re-construct the seniors’ life circles. Along with suitable designs of lifestyle clusters, these plans enable senior citizens to have stable, carefree and safe later years.

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黎倩菱. "A Study on Gender Ideology of Senior High School Citizen and Society Textbooks." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55785871925368154741.

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國立臺灣師範大學
公民教育與活動領導學系在職進修碩士班
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The purpose of this study is to use content analysis to find out gender ideologies in senior high school's Citizen and Society textbooks. Study will be based on volume one to four of the course textbooks of Citizen and Society class, with particular focus on texts published from Lungtung and Nani . After setting up the research purpose and objectives, the study will go through literature reviews to understand the meanings and developments of gender equality. And based on the previous studies, the standards which conducted domestically and internationally, the study categorized the quantitative analysis into six areas: Imbalance, Stereotyping, Invisibility, Linguistic Bias, Fragmentation, and Cosmetic. Quantitative and qualitative analysis then would be conducted based on the six areas mentioned above. To examine whether course textbooks implied indirectly the gender ideology, and how are the gender issues represented? Whether the representation is completed? Whether the textbooks carry gender stereotype phenomenon? And when describing particular issues, whether particular gender focus is excluded? Whether language texts implied linguistic bias indirectly ? The study concludes the following: 1. Gender "Imbalance" is significant. 2. "Stereotyping" is concentrated more on the areas of career projects, household work division, and segmentation of color based on genders . 3. Textbooks doesn't show "Invisibility" significantly, and that homosexual and multi-gender examples are minimum. 4. Texts of " Linguistic Bias" are rare. 5. Systematic introduction of gender relationship and respect equality are shown in texts from both publishers. 6. A slightly significant of "Cosmetic" are shown in text covers and some of the figures in the texts. Overall, the results of the study which focused on the Citizen and Society textbooks from two publishers did not reflect the gender ideology significantly. Thus, based on the conclusion above, the study makes few recommendations as followed: 1. Increase the proportion of female samples. 2. Increase the career types for female samples, and lesser the career segmentation. 3. Use different figures for different genders doing household works. 4. Avoid label females with the color pink when choosing colors. 5. Increase homosexual and multi-gender issues and related descriptions.

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Hsieh, Kou-Chen, and 謝蔻禎. "An Investigation of Travel Preference and Safety Concepts of Senior Citizen in Taiwan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42739181046949739133.

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明道大學
產業創新與經營學系碩士班
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Most senior citizens were retired persons. They have much more leisure time than others. If economic condition permits, they would like to take tours and visit some famous sightseeing spots. Nevertheless, due to their physiological aging, the time and destination might be limited by their health. Consequently, health evaluation and disease control before setting out become an important issue. This study was conducted using quantitative questionnaire survey. Eight hundred copies were sent out and distributed to each county and city based upon the population. The range of survey includes Taiwan is land and off-shore islands. Among them, 775 copied were correctly answered with recovery rate of 96.88%. The subjects were above 50 age male or female citizens covering all level of education. The result of study indicated that foreign tourism keeps booming in this century, which is one of the favorite activities for the elder. Those who have physical disabilities are usually conveyed by relatives and friends to enjoy the pleasure of travel. For most convenience, the elder will be pleased to be arranged by travel agent to visit near-by countries. On the other hand, independent tourist will go farer and stay longer in their trip. 　　Because the fare of economic class is much cheaper than business class, most people will select it and expected to be put in the window seat with good view. It is no double that sitting long in a crowed seat without exercise may cause the risk of deep venous thrombosis, particularly for those who have cardiovascular disorders. 　　This study showed that most people have sensed the potential risk during the route of traveling. Nevertheless, their comprehension is still not enough and need to be educated.

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Hsu, Chih-Lan, and 許之蘭. "The Needs and Social Sevices for Elderly In Social Welfare Institution:An example of Senior Nursing Institution and Senior Citizen Apartments." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2kqx94.

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中國文化大學
社會福利學系
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This study presents the service need for elderly from the perspective of social welfare institution. In this study, I conduct a survey by the semi-open-ended questionnaire which is focusing on the authorized Senior Citizens Welfare Institutions in Taipei and New Taipei City. The objects of the survey are the elderly in nursing home and elderly housing which are chosen by the mode of purposive sampling. In this study, I conduct the one-on-one interview by adopting the oral reading method and collect a total of 220 valid questionnaires. The study adopts "a survey of the service need for the elderly in Social Welfare Institutions" questionnaire as research tool. The study data are analyzed by descriptive statistical method, t-test and one-way analysis of variance. In addition, Scheffe' method is also used for those data which significant difference is found by the analysis of the data. The conclusions of this study are as follows： I. The elderly on different gender presents the significant difference in the three dimensions of "love and belongingness need", "esteem need", and "self-actualization need", furthermore, the survey indicates that elderly men are higher than elderly women. II. The elderly on different level of education presents the significant difference in the dimensions of "physiological need" and "self-actualization need". In the dimension of "physiological need", the elderly with junior high level are higher than those with junior college level or above; in the dimension of "self-actualization need", the elderly with elementary school level or below are higher than those with senior high school. III. The elderly on different self-evaluation of health conditions presents the significant difference in the dimensions of "physiological need" and "self-actualization need". In the dimension of "physiological need", there is no significant difference, however, in the dimension of "self-actualization need", the elderly who think their health conditions are good are higher than those who think their health conditions are poor. IV. The elderly on different self-evaluation of economic conditions presents the significant difference in the dimension of "self-actualization need", in addition, the elderly who think their economic conditions are good are higher than those who think their economic conditions are on the average and poor. V. The elderly on different welfare institutions presents the significant difference in the dimensions of "physiological need", "love and belongingness need", "esteem need", and "self-actualization need", furthermore, the elderly in elderly housing are higher than those in nursing home. VI. The elderly on different number of children presents the significant difference in the dimension of "safety need" and "love and belongingness need", furthermore, the elderly with children is higher than those without children. The study highlights the need on the elderly in social welfare institutions to illustrate the valuation and recommendation in further development of government and related organizations, welfare institutions, and the elderly and their families. The study aims to provide social welfare institution with kind consideration and useful welfare service.

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Anderson, Ramsay Helen M. "Relative concentration and locational characteristics of senior citizen apartment units in Winnipeg, 1981-1993." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3709.

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The main objective of this thesis is to analyze locational characteristics of Senior Citizen Apartment (SCA) units in the city of Winnipeg in 1981 and 1993. Attention is focussed on the determination of the structural compositions of Winnipeg's SCA market in l981 and 1993; change in the spatial congregation and relative concentration of all categories of SCA units in Winnipeg between 1991 and 1993; the origins of moves to public SCA projects in Winnipeg; and the local neighbourhood characteristics of a sample of public and private SCA projects located in different areas of the city. Two main methods of data analysis are used, Image Differencing and Location Quotients. Both analyses are carried out using Geographic System Technology. Results of the study indicate that SCA units are not always located in "high need" areas or in neighbourhoods with adequate service environments, and that the service outlet type most often missing from the local area is a grocery store or supermarket. In addition, results of the "origins of moves" into public SCAs analysis revealed a distinct `distance bias.' On the basis of the results of this study, it is recommended that any new SCA projects should be built in "high need" areas that provide an appropriate neighbourhood environment.

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yü, ts'ui kuang, and 崔光宇. "The Research of Leisure Sport Needs and Constraints Factors for Senior Citizen in Taichung." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84917245554058415409.

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碩士
亞洲大學
經營管理學系碩士班
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Taiwan because of faced with function of the household reforming and population　structure change, advanced age society fast vicissitude, initiates the new demand and　the question, has become the government and the folk attention focal point, thus also　must have the relative plan, in accordance to the countermeasure and the measure, and　even laws and regulations revision, so that legislates, the policy, the　service gathers　one, simultaneously promotes the silver to send the race to participate in the leisure　activity behavior, also becomes an important topic. The leisure is the modern people lives one of quality major targets　or quotas,　along with the time change, also has the difference to the leisure demand, beforehand　person discussed the leisure mainly is in the pursue leisure, the relaxation, but modern　people then hoped in the leisure can obtain physiological, psychological, social and　energetic aspect entire side health (wellness). The leisure　activity will be the　important part which 21st century humanities live (Cai Changqi, 1993), therefore,　how makes good use of the leisure time, causes oneself fully to obtain the relaxation,　the health, the entertainment, the self-growth…And so on, will be the　important topic　which 21st century people face (Ye Xianqing, 1987). This research main penetration questionnaire survey way, understood　the　Taizhong silver sends the race to be engaged in present　situation of the leisure　movement, to be actual and the theory idea whether has the difference. The statistical　result discovered that,　the different sex leisure hinders it "intrinsic individual", "the　constitutive hindrance" the construction surface has reveals the　difference existence.　The disparity in age various stratification　planes not reveal the difference existence.　Unmarried and losing one's spouse with married in various leisures hindrance factor,　not reveals the difference existence. The different education level has not certainly　revealed the difference existence in various leisures hindrance factor. The different　occupation in the factor has in "individual intrinsic hindrance" reveals the difference　existence. The different individual month of income "is interpersonalin the leisure　hindrance hinders" in the factor　stratification plane, has reveals the difference　existence.

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LIN, YA-HSUAN, and 林雅萱. "Commercial Long-Term Care Insurance for Senior Citizen Purchase Intention- Perspective of Marketing Strategy." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y57pfk.

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朝陽科技大學
保險金融管理系
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With the declining birth rate and the rapid growth of the aging population in Taiwan, coupled with the advancement of medical science and technology, the proportion of elderly people is also increasing. Since 1993, Taiwan has entered an ageing society. As the times evolve, the imbalance in the population structure continues to grow in Taiwan. In the wave of declining birthrates, Taiwan’s situation is the worst in the world. According to this phenomenon, the National Development Council also estimated that 2018 Taiwan will step into an “aged society” and even anticipate that by 2026, the elderly population in Taiwan will exceed the threshold of 20% and move toward hyper-aged society. According to the Ministry of the Interior at the end of March of the year of 107 in Taiwan, the registered population of people over the age of 65 was 3.31 million people, accounting for 14.1% of the total population, and officially entered an “aged society”. With the ageing trend, the transfer of demographic structure has given society much responsibility. Facing the aging population and the impact of changes in social structure, family patterns, and family care functions, the demand for care cannot be fully borne by the family. The financial risks associated with potential long-term care needs have become a major challenge for Taiwanese people. The purpose of this study is to explore the elderly people in the long-term care of commercial insurance purchase intentions from the perspective of marketing strategies to explore the people buying commercial insurance intentions and provide relevant recommendations to the government and insurance company. A total of 107 online questionnaires were distributed in this study, and a total of 105 valid questionnaires were issued. As well as through in-depth interviews, people understand that people have a certain understanding of long-term care insurance, but most consumers are reluctant to spend too much money on insured long-term care insurance. It can suggest that the government and insurance companies should promote knowledge of long-term care insurance to the public. The willingness to take care of long-term care insurance increases.

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FANG, CHENG-HSUN, and 方政勛. "The Study of Using NTFD M System on Senior Citizen Welfare Institute Fire Response." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x5mng2.

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醒吾科技大學
資訊科技應用系
106
The elderly, infants, pregnant women, maternity and physical and mental disabilities are recognized in the field of firefighting as “refuge-fighting disadvantaged groups” and long-term care places are “safe places for refuge”. Once a fire occurs, human casualties and property losses will be difficult to estimate. . When fires occur in vulnerable places, the control of fire scenes becomes very important. Firefighters are faced with an unexplained fire scene. How to collect fire-related information items quickly and quickly for a limited time? Improving the chance of successful fire rescue and reducing the risk of casualties. The general fire growth process can be divided into five periods according to the growth of the fire temperature. They are the start-up period, the growth period, the flash fire, the peak period, and the final recession period. The fire starts from the ignition source to flash combustion and the overall combustion. During its peak period, only a few minutes later, firefighters received the report and arrived at the scene, which has occupied most of the time of the fire, how to use the driving time, to collect fire-related information, and the tasks of rescue personnel. distribution. When vehicles and disaster relief personnel leave the fire station, in order to quickly collect site fire-related information items, the data of the site M will be available to the commander, and the task will be assigned to rescue personnel. M-ization refers to "mobilize", meaning "action". Activism is the use of wireless network tools to allow service (members) to use all types of portable terminal devices at any location and at any time, linking to internal information systems, to complete the process of simultaneous and instant data exchange. M’s goal is to allow members to operate related businesses and obtain information at any time.

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LIAO, SHI-YI, and 廖世義. "Exploring the Long-Term Care Mechanism of Senior Citizen Base on Ethical Value Perspective." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rfbk75.

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碩士
亞洲大學
經營管理學系碩士在職專班
106
Along with national health conditions and medical technology promoted, life expectancy at some age extended also the amount aged population is growing rapidly. In 1993, Taiwan got into “Aging population society”. Faced to the social change, could understand the rate of the elderly housing, the long-term care and the health preservation villages are increasing year by year from the changing of senior citizen’s living arrangements in Taiwan. The long-term care is focusing on the disability from physical activity damaged or cognition damaged, which caused people who couldn’t have self-care and need to rely on other in daily life. As a result, this research is about the point of six ethics that raised by long-term care workforce who the care of supplying senior citizen. The range of caring is involved with the right of people who are nursed, the value of life, point about humanity and the skill of helping people. 　This research is discussed from the senior citizens. From extended of the long-term care, home care for the elderly and service innovation. Afterwards, we quote the scholar Chung-Yi Hwu〈Ethical issues and Decision-making of Long-term Care Practices〉with the responsibility of six ethics as our research's analysis framework. Furthermore, we interview the manager of the nursing home for increasing our research knowledge and practical overview.

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Huang, Kuan-Yu, and 黃鸛宇. "A Study of Sport and Recreation Participating Behavior of Senior Citizen in Taipei City." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54684689149349983127.

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國立體育大學
休閒產業經營學系
103
The study was to investigate the Taipei City the senior citizen groups sport leisure participation motivation and understand leisure benefits. The purposes were: 1.senior citizen groups involved in the current status of the demographics of sports and leisure. 2.comparison of different demographic variables the differences involved in motivation of participation and sports and leisure benefits. 3.explore the relationship between motivation of participation and sport and leisure benefits. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis, reliability analysis, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Finding: 1. Gender, work status, work career will not affect the psychological variables. 2. The level of education will affect the social needs of the psychological variables dimensions. 3. Different levels of education, work status, work career will not affect the behavior of variables. 4. Health movement can effectively predict the stimulation avoid and technical requirements. 5. Outdoor sports can effectively predict the technical requirements of the psychological variable dimensions. 6. Indoor sports can effectively predict the psychological variables to stimulate demand dimensions. 7. Psychological variables can effectively predict the leisure benefits. Suggestions： 1. Strengthen the ability of male sports and leisure concept. 2. Additional exclusive sports and leisure facilities and the field of senior citizen groups. 3. Sports and leisure promotion and activities. 4. Actively for senior citizen groups health promotion programs.

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Shen, Sheng-Yao, and 沈聲耀. "The Performance Evaluation on the Outsourcing of Senior-Citizen Activity Centers in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68767705424989942399.

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國立中山大學
公共事務管理研究所
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Since October 1999, Kaohsiung City Government has contracted for operating and managing senior-citizen activity centers to eight non-profit organizations. The purpose of the research is to evaluate service performance, service satisfaction and service quality of senior-citizen activity centers and explore the differences between those with contracting and without contracting. The population is the users of 23 senior-citizen activity centers of Kaohsiung City. Using structured questionnaires, face-to face interview and purposive sampling, the data was collected. The results of study revealed: in contracting centers, women had more service satisfaction than men did. The users with lower educational backgrounds had higher service satisfaction. However, in centers without contracting, the high frequency users had higher service satisfaction. Four significant differences were found between centers with or without contracting: “service satisfaction”, “environment and facilities”, “management and administration” and “service attitude”. The users of contracting centers gave better performance score than the users of centers without contracting. No significant difference was found in “service outcome”. There were five factors influenced the users’ service satisfaction in contracting centers: “environment and facilities”, “management and administration”, “service attitude”, “service outcome” and “interpersonal relationships”. These five factors explained 75% variance of the regression model. However, in centers without contracting, three factors influenced the users’ service satisfaction: “management and administration”, “service attitude” and “interpersonal relationship”. These three factors explained 72% variance of the regression model. Furthermore, the researcher ranked the scores of service performance of the eight contracting centers and compared them with the rank list evaluated by Bureau of Social Affairs in 2004. The comparative results were not the same. It indicated that higher grade evaluated by Bureau is not necessarily got the higher levels of service performance and satisfaction experienced by users. At last, according to the results of the study, researcher provided practical guidance for policy considerations by municipal managers and administrators.

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WEN-RU, CHEN, and 陳穩如. "The Analysis on the Services Demand of the Leisure Industry for the Senior Citizen." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24790851298583044481.

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正修科技大學
工業工程與管理研究所
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The Seniors Citizen group's fast growth stimulates the demand of the seniors and health related industrial. The coverage of related industrial also get wider. However, due to the reasons of the growing technology, the rapidly changing socio-economic structure, the education level of the senior, and the progressive health status and economic ability, the traditional health-care institution is hard to meet the need of the seniors groups now. It boosts the growth of the seniors industries in these days. It's the important issue to discussion the social problem of Evergreen populations growing, and through the research to understanding the relationship between elderly lifestyle and needs. So the purpose of this research study in statistical acceptance of today's people to the elderly community service and equipment needs, and explore the influence of the elderly lifestyle and needs to serve as the information on the industry development. Object of study for people in the south of major medical research institutes, by random sampling way, implementation of questionnaire verification, and for leisure type care of life type State and needs analysis of questionnaire investigation, for 25 Factor Analysis Approach, and four major dimensions of project analysis, Analysis of Reliability and Validity and Analysis of T-test, from the results, their metabolism and athletic ability, professional nurses appointment, configuration, nutritionist and other ten , industry and users cognitively significant differences, the industry must pay more attention in order to reach the user's expectations. Keyword: Senior Citizen、The Senior Citizen industry、demand relations、admission degree

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