The Study of Application Development on Elderly Customized Exercise for Active Aging
The purpose of this study is to examine the current status and problems pertaining to the applications on the Korean elderly’s exercise in the Korean android market using smart phone, for the development of the exercise program application customized for
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Department of Sport Education, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea [email protected] Department of Sport and Healthcare, Namseoul University, Cheonan, Korea {sahome,shkim001}@nsu.ac.kr 3 Department of Physical Education, Korea University, Seoul, Korea [email protected]
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to examine the current status and problems pertaining to the applications on the Korean elderly’s exercise in the Korean android market using smart phone, for the development of the exercise program application customized for the elderly and to provide services. Moreover, improvement measures are analyzed to provide the base data to provide resourceful information to the elderly, leaders, trainees interested in the elderly and institutions and to develop customized elderly exercise application for the Active Aging. When the elderly exercise applications in Korea were examined, there is only one exercise program with standardized contents. Only the program called the “Health Ewha” present convergence of food, nursing and sports, but this application cannot be searched easily with keyword. Thus, this study planned customized elderly exercise for Active Aging, and this is the base data for devel‐ oping application that can input information, measuring current state (exercise strength level setting, physical strength via heart rate measurement), and custom‐ ized exercise program (cardio, muscular strength, flexibility, equilibrium, and coordination exercise for healthy elderly and exercise by disease). Keywords: Health management · The elderly · Active aging · Application
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Introduction
A society is referred to as an aging society when the share of people who are 65 years old or older exceeds 7% of the total population. It is called the aged society if the share is over 14% and the super aged society when the share is 20%. As of today, Korea had already entered into the aged society stage in 2000. Likewise, people who are at least 65 years old comprise 13.53% of the total population with 2.91 million men and 3.97 million women [1]. Increase in the elderly population is causing problems such as lack of health manage‐ ment, decrease in labor productivity, decrease in activities compared to the extension of lifetime, imbalance in the working population due to early retirement, increase in the 1
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person households, severance of the social relations due to the loss of the family’s and society’s role, and mental issues such as depression and suicide. Active Aging which is the concept that includes human beings’ state and behavior and effort for the healthy and active activities during the senescence is the concept defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). It means leading of comfortable and comforting old age everyday life by participating actively and continually in the effort to maintain health,
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