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Due to COVID-19, effective healthcare measures for the elderly are needed. Therefore, this study aims to reveal the structure of value-based culture discourse on exercise participation of the elderly using healthcare applications. An application exercise system was used for improving the physical function of 30 elderly people, and data were collected through in-depth interviews after exercise.
Collected data were analyzed through archaeological discourse analysis suggested by Foucault (1969). First, value-based culture discourse on exercise participation using healthcare application for the elderly was formed as an exercise application with disconnected communication. Second, subject position of value-based culture discourse on healthcare applications for the elderly was determined by informal groups. The subjects were facing alienation of social learning and polarized use of resources. Third, among formation of the concept of healthcare applications for the elderly, basis of value was based on distribution of application. Relationship between basis of values was revealed in the form of compromise; using healthcare application only when help was given. Fourth, strategy formation of the elderly’s health care application was in three categories: the first was exercise environment accompanied by paradox, the second was formation of macroscopic discourse, and the third was conflict of discourses. Fifth, relationships between discourse and exercise participation were as follows, “value perception of healthcare application is not correlated with exercise participation,” “lack of application distribution and technology excluding the elderly resulted in disregard of healthcare application,” “Gap between value-based culture of healthcare application and exercise practice represents the elderly’s value-based culture exercise discourse.”
