When comparing the time taken to enter an aged society and a super-aged society with OECD countries, the United States took 72 years and 16 years, and Japan took 24 years and 12 years, respectively. On the other hand, Korea is aging very quickly, taking 18 years and 8 years, respectively, and the lack of preparation time for this is emerging as a national problem. The stability of the elderly generation’s life will depend on how they prepare for old age, and measures are needed for the elderly to maintain an appropriate residential environment on their own. Therefore, analyzing what factors the elderly consider important as housing consumers is essential to understanding the changes in the housing market in the aging society. The results of the analysis showed that first, the analysis of how the perception of the main residential environmental factors affects life satisfaction was analyzed to be in the order of family accessibility, interaction with neighbors or relatives, sufficiency of green space, overall local environment, and convenience of transportation. Second, the study on how the perception of the need for housing services affects life satisfaction can be said to be complex. Third, a study on how the perception of factors in the use of housing services affects life satisfaction showed that services related to activities such as leisure, culture, and exercise had a positive effect on life satisfaction. Fourth, a study on where the elderly would choose to live in a healthy state showed that when the elderly live alone, they would want to choose a house that provides living services even if they are healthy, and when they live in urban areas, they would want to choose a place with a better living environment due to traffic complexity, noise, population density, and pollution.
Choi et al. (Mon,) studied this question.