Elderly Residential Space Design and Analysis: A Review

Abstract

With increasing age, the elderly, the special requirements of living space and a corresponding increase in the degree of dependence. This article focus from the functional space housing the elderly begin to analyze the elderly housing designs should be noted that the problem of elderly residential points overall design of each room, summed elderly residential apartment space is designed to follow the safety, health, convenience and practical design principles and flexibility. Finally, the paper, the author type design, retrofitting existing senior housing and other aspects of a good attempt. Population aging is the product of social and economic development, China's elderly population is the largest in the world, one of the fastest growing in the country, old before getting rich features of an aging population, will make China's national economy and social development is facing enormous challenges. Second World Assembly on Ageing proposed the concept of active aging, this idea has become a global basis for countries to develop policies on aging. As a special group of society, quality of life and living conditions of the elderly has become an issue the government and the community of common concern. Many elderly body and health, comfort and other living heart is inextricably linked with the living. With increasing age, the elderly, the special requirements of living space and a corresponding increase in the degree of dependence (1-3). Involves not only the survival of the living environment for the elderly to enjoy demand, such as providing sleeping, dining, entertainment, care of the place, but also related to the elderly in touch with family and community in time and space. How to adapt our upcoming aging society, how to meet the residency requirements of the elderly has become an urgent need to solve the problems we face. Elderly housing problem involving thousands of families, elderly residential use subject the elderly, the elderly have special psychological, physical and social activities characteristics, therefore, should be set up with the elderly at the core of the guiding ideology, to understand the way of life for the elderly, habits, hobbies and demand and other aspects of life, so that the elderly can create a healthy, safe and comfortable living environment in which the living space (4). Faced with the rapid growth in the number of cities for the elderly, concern for the elderly, caring for the elderly has become a consensus of all sectors of society, and therefore, the issue of urban senior housing, senior housing development, has effectively improve the living standards of living for the elderly significance. Elderly residential subdivision, research and practice of multi-mode, allowing different levels of the elderly to improve their quality of life, but also for the community to provide more ways to solve the problem of aging. In this paper, a combination of design research in urban elderly residential apartment space for the center to start discussion, from the perspective of cross-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary perspective to explore the issue of aging and elderly population characteristics. By analyzing the domestic and foreign pension model and policies exist in the city to explore the current situation in the aging housing problem of the elderly. Articles focus from the functional space housing the elderly begin to analyze the elderly housing designs should be noted that the problem of elderly residential points overall design of each room, summed elderly residential apartment space is designed to follow the safety, health, convenience and practical design principles and flexibility. Finally, the paper, the author type design, retrofitting existing senior housing and other aspects of a good attempt.