A Study on the Adaptability to the Elders of Nursery for the Aged in Indiscrete Space

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10.2991/icreet-16.2017.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Indiscrete Space, Nursing Home, Adaptability to the Elders

Abstract

Discussions on community & multi-function-based aged care in China are mostly converged on and manifested as follows, (1) The "software" level as in policies, models, industry and even management instead of the "hardware" studies as in the living space of the elders where a hierarchy system and well-thought-out opinions are absent; (2) Fearful tendency of administerization and institutionalization. Especially the construction of facilities for the elders is mostly oriented by the "top-down" subjective analysis and evaluation. Studies on the aged-users-centric Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of existing community-based nursing homes still remain insufficient, and there is a lack of an evaluation system of infrastructure for the elders' adaptability to their living conditions. An advocacy shall be called upon everyone in China for concerted efforts in studying how to improve the adaptability of services for the aged to the space of facilities, and providing the elders with an easeful and upbeat living environment. Based on the fundamental principle of "Aging in Place" of the adaptability of the living conditions of nursing homes, this paper presents a humble opinion regarding the ideas of space design from the perspectives of safety, comfort and positivity, and hopefully provides a foundation for the discussions of the likes of such studies.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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