The Study of Application Development on Elderly Customized Exercise for Active Aging

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 developing application that can input information, measuring current state (exercise strength level setting, physical strength via heart rate measurement), and customized exercise program (cardio, muscular strength, flexibility, equilibrium, and coordination exercise for healthy elderly and exercise by disease).