지역공동체활성화프로그램 및 만족감이 노인용 주거시설 선택에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study aim to examine the effects of community revitalization and community activities programs on people’s intention to moving to residential facilities for older adults when they become old. Recently, the rapid aging of Korean society drew attention to residential facilities for older people. Previous studies have limitations that their research was mostly on residential facilities for either low-income people or high-income people. Hence, we analyzed the necessity for revitalizing community while applying the concept of habitability. We applied a multilevel binary logistic model to the multi-structure data of individual and regional levels in order to explore factors affecting willingness to move to residential facilities for the old. At the individual level, gender, age, willingness to work after retirement, assets, housing occupancy type, satisfaction with community activities programs, satisfaction with life, and the level of participation in community activities programs were significant factors. At the regional level, satisfaction with community activities programs, the level of participation in community activities programs, and financial independency were statistically significant. The results of this study imply that the activation of programs for regional community activities can be a crucial factor for older adults to decide their residence and to increase their quality of life.