Abstract

Recently, there has been a growing tendency to pursue the development of more comfortable environment for the elderly in the facilities. It differs from the living conditions in the past, where spaces for a group rather than an individual were emphasized. This paper is an attempt to suggest the planning of the architectural environment in the residential facilities for the elderly. The method observes the living conditions of the elderly and their space usage, in a different space conditions of 6 facilities in Japan and Korea. The results are abstracted as follows; 1) The stay in the bed room was seen a lot in concentrate living unit and the stay in the common space was seen a lot in divided living unit, in the each facility that space composition differs. 2) The induction of care staff and common space of establishing it the difference was seen to the stay by the one. 3) The characterastic of the operation of each facility was seen to the time distribution of the care schedule.

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