THE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP OF OLD ADULTS ACCORDING TO THE USE OF ASSISTIVE APPLIANCES IN SOUTH KOREA.
Yeojin Yoon · 2023
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Description
Glasses, hearing aids, and dentures help older bodies, but do they help older social lives? Yeojin Yoon tests the link in South Korea's 2020 national survey of seniors, covering more than ten thousand people aged sixty-five and up, in a 2023 study. Social life was measured by how often respondents saw or contacted children, relatives, friends, and neighbors.
The answer is a clean null. Use of vision, hearing, or chewing aids showed no statistical correlation with social relationship strength. Group averages for users and non-users did not differ significantly either. Yoon notes the study may have missed how easily elders get support with the devices. The finding still matters: handing out appliances, the author argues, should not be mistaken for a social policy in itself.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yeojin Yoon |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |