New Culture & New Aging according to Digital Aging in Korea

1. New Culture & New Aging according to Digital Aging in Korea 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. Cyber Neighbor Cyber Family KINPEA Elder Abuse Design & Developing Program Digital Ageing Section of Culture & Information Section of Welfare Family Support Program for Dementia Patients Culture& Technology Education Program Efforts of RISBLE

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

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. 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(2001-2005) Korea www. wellageing. com.

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

16. 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

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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

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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

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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. Objectives Research Institute of Science for the better living of the elderly • 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 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. Ideas Research Institute of Science for the better living of the elderly • 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 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. Cyber Neighbor Cyber Family Strong late life from ageism New model of filial piety New Image of Older Person Community education Understanding late life Accept right of older person Making new image of older person Cycle model by older person