제목

Housing Alternatives to Promote Holistic Health of the Fragile Aged

저자

Yeunsook Lee, Hyegyung Yoon, Soohyun Lim, Somi An, Jihye Hwang

발행기관

Department of Housing and Interior Design

발행일

February 2012

키워드

Dementia elderly housing, Fragile aged, Holistic health, Small group workshop

abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide research-based argument for a better housing for the dementia elderly within the apartment complex neighbourhood. Six case study’s designs are included to illustrate the types of facilities that could be possible that would provide a better environment for the care of elderly and older people with dementia. Literature was analyzed to give the perspectives of “sustainable and aging society,” “social integration” and “natural environment that promotes health.” Small group workshop was carried out with experienced professionals to discuss the concepts and features of the developed housing alternatives plans to validate the proposal to integrate local residents and promote holistic health for the fragile aged. The findings illustrate the vision for the shared space community, a community home for the dementia elderly, with appropriate scale for easy management and being connected with local community and with affluent green environment for healing and natural environment that would ease local residents’ aversion towards elderly housing. These housing alternatives would enable the elderly to age in place and with the most natural social integration available to local people, with a proper spatial planning to promote holistic health of the fragile aged.

주요내용

이 연구의 목적은 치매노인을 위해서 아파트단지 근처에 위치한 더 좋은 주택에 대한 연구에 근거한 논점을 제공하는 것임. 이 연구에서는 공간을 공유하는 지역사회에 대한 비전, 치매노인을 위한 지역사회 주택의 조건들을 설명하고 있음. 이러한 주택(거주시설)에 대한 대안은 노인들이 지역주민들과 가장 자연스러운 사회통합을 할 수 있게 하고 ‘aging in place’를 가능하게 함.

DOI

10.1177/1420326X11419349

Subject

OLDER people — Health, HOLISTIC medicine, HOUSING DEMENTIA, PUBLIC health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1420326X11419349