1. New Culture & New Aging according to Digital Aging in Korea
Let’s talk about who we are.
Director, Dong-Hee Han (Ph.D)
Research Institute of Science for
the Better Living of Elderly

2. Increases in World’s Aged Population 1950-2050

3. Percent of population 65+ doubling, tripling, quadrupling, quintupling
% will double
% will more than quintuple
% will more than quintuple
% will more than triple
% will almost double
% will almost triple

4. Background Rapidly Aging Population Less Children, Less Family Support
Rapidly Change Society
led us to flourishing information and uncontrollable aging phenomenon
Moreover those values, humanitarian, filial piety and sense of community have been changed and many elderly have lost protective shield of familism and have been exposed to the risk of isolation and insecurity omitted from in the traditional family values system.             

5. Background
Given the speed of aging in Korea there is little time to plan and there is no time to make many mistakes.
need to have our own key to solve various aging problems in our Korean society.
Informatization with education and training internet for older person, empowerment for older person by the elderly, of the elderly, for the elderly

6. Aged Society ?

7. Efforts of RISBLE Digital Ageing Cyber Neighbor Cyber Family KINPEA
Family Support
Program for
Dementia Patients
KINPEA
Elder
Abuse
Cyber
Neighbor
Cyber Family
Education
Program
Culture&
Technology
Design &
Developing
Digital
Ageing
Section of
Culture &
Information
Welfare

8. Ageism New Aging Digital Life for Senior Dependency
Lack of socialization
Bad prejudices
Lack of resources
Learned helplessness
New Aging
Digital Life for Senior

9. Digital Aging New strategy for aging population
New approach for understanding later
life / New aging
New modeling filial piety in digital society
New solidarity model in late life
New approach for care system
Overcoming the digital divide

10. Positive image of senior Creating new job in late life
The Purpose of Activities
Positive image of senior
Creating new job in late life
Destroy of isolation
Practice on Active Aging
Empowerment older person

11. Efforts of Informatization for the Elderly `
Ministry of Information & Communication
(Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion)
Promoting NGO’s public IT activities
(Research Institute of Science for the Better Living
of the Elderly)
Online IT education for senior
Encourage the participation to be digital silver
- Senior informatization contest
- Grand discussion
- Various events

12. Divide of Using Internet by the Age
21.5
19.3 13
9.3
8.7
※ Resource : KADO(2004), NIDA(2005) Survey of informatization for seniors

13. Using of Internet among 50’s over Seniors
Using internet
22%
Not using internet
78%
How?
What?

14. Research Institute of Science for the better living of the elderly
Symbols
Cyber Family (2006~ )
Cyber Neighbor( )
Research Institute of Science
for the better living of the elderly
Korea
www. wellageing. com.

15. Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly
Symbol of Cyber Neighbor
Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly

16. Empowerment older person
Cyber Neighbor
New image for aging population
New way of bridge of broken affection among family, generation and society
New approach binding solidarity with society
Digital aging
Active Aging
Empowerment older person

17. What is Cyber Neighbor Purpose
To make understanding of new image of the elderly life
To share a warm affection with cyber space
To show and deliver messages from older person in
our society
To solve the various diversities of region,
class and age
To get rid of a prejudice of senior person
To create new role for older person

18. What’s Activities in Cyber Neighbor?
Digital silver instructors activities
IT silver volunteers activities
Showing and training to learn computer
To make solidarity of intergeneration
Deliver various types of information for older generation
To recognize the late life among intergeneration

19. Successful aging with Cyber Neighbor
Positive Cases
To make a real understanding both young
generation and old generation
To understand stories disappearing old one to
young generation as a trust
To recover a warm family relationship
To create new family filial piety
To create potential resource for workforce

20. Cyber Neighbor

21. Contents Encourage with good words
Counseling for middle school students in living isolated region
Introduction how to learn using computer easily
for seniors
Discussion among the elderly and young generation about lots of issue
- meaningful advices, thoughts, play games,
foods, using materials to be digital silver

22. Cyber Neighbor

23. Cyber Neighbor

24. Cyber Neighbor

25. NGO Booth for Cyber Neighbor

26. Homecoming Day of Cyber Neighbor

27. The Digital Silver Instructors
To make easy to learn using computer
To make cyber community for older person
To make understanding U-life
To demonstrate “we can do it”

28. Digital Silver Instructor

29. Digital Silver Instructor

30. Digital Silver Instructor

31. Digital Silver Instructor

32. Digital Camera Supporters
A new digital revolution by seniors
Digital passion among seniors
Exchange cultural among seniors
Training, designed with using computer
Deliver news of community for older person

33. Digital Camera Supporters

34. Digital Camera Supporters

35. Digital Camera Supporters

36. Class for Cellular Phone

37. Class for Cellular Phone

38. Intergeneration Program

39. The Symbol of Cyber Family
Research Institute of Science
for the better living of the elderly
Korea
www. wellageing. com.

40. Frame of Cyber Family

41. Research Institute of Science for the better living of the elderly
Objectives
To create the new filial piety culture suitable for the digital age as a concept of humanity and family love lost by dysfunction of cyber space and the changed social identity with the elder and the adolescent
Research Institute of Science
for the better living of the elderly
Korea
www. wellageing. com.

42. To make the adolescent learn the true meaning of cyber family  and feel themselves through the various programs of off-line gathering with seniors and the middle generation which supports them to healthily grow into a fine member of a society

44. Research Institute of Science for the better living of the elderly
Ideas
Try to change the negative dysfunction of cyber space prevalent in society as a healthy social member of Cyber Family
The consciousness of elder respect and neglected  elder as well as change the negative of prejudice seniors into positive one to distribute
Research Institute of Science
for the better living of the elderly
Korea
www. wellageing. com.

45. To help the adolescent not to lose their dreams and grow into a social member who is always bright and lively.
To suggest the new family model in upcoming ubiquitous society and let the elder and adolescent share their experience and digital culture.

46. Cyber Family / On-line

47. We are Cyber Family!

48. Successful Aging with Digital Life
Appling all division with digital life and
developing contents for older person
New image of older person(Active Aging)
Social participation of potential
workforce, productivity and care system
Warm internet in digital world among
intergeneration( new model of filial piety)

49. Future Efforts for Successful Aging with Cyber Neighbor & Cyber Family
We are trying to make new
coping system for ageing society.
Community network for older person
Develop education programs both on line and
off line
Productive aging
The movement education for the older person,
of the older person, by the older person
Understanding aging with a social consensus
Practice new model of filial piety + Positive image

50. New Image of Older Person
Community education
Understanding late life
Accept right of older person
New model
of filial piety
Strong late life
from ageism
Making new image of older person
Cyber
Neighbor
Cyber Family
Cycle model by
older person

51. Family Support Program for Dementia Patients

52. K I N P E A
: Korean Information Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse

53. Social Drama for Older Person

54. International Exchange Program
: 2005 Shanghai International Elderly Cultural Festival

56. International Exchange Program
: 2005 Shanghai International Elderly Cultural Festival

57. Conference in Asia PacificM H E
2007Namhae Active Aging
Conference in Asia Pacific

58. Invitation 2007 Namhae Active Aging in Asia Pacific in Namhae Korea May 16-18, 2007
Welcome to Namhae which shinning of beautiful old stars
shinning of the beautiful stars

59. International Relationship
Creating the warm cyber society by the adolescent and the elder campaign
Cyber Neighbor!
Cyber Family!
We are also cyber family and cyber neighbor soon.
감사합니다.
Research Institute of Science
for the better living of the elderly
Korea
www. wellageing. com.

60. New Aging with Cyber Neighbor & Cyber Family
www. wellageing. com
축하합니다.
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