英文摘要 |
Frail elderly generally concerned that housing performance could support their requirements of aging in place in the late years. To assist them being capable of aging in place has been the basic principle of housing design. The ratio of aged people residing at home reaches 82.6 percentages in Taiwan at present, obviously, how to let existing frail elderly stay at home for aging in place is the unavoidable duty of housing designer. Taiwan will enter highly aging society in 2027, we should understand the different requirements between different generations. Therefore, in addition to studying the requirements of housing spaces and facilities for aging in place, this research also inspect the differences of housing requirements between present frail elderly and future elderly after twenty years. The results of this research will offer the reference for housing construction.The article reviews in terms of housing developmental trend of aging in place, implementation issues for aging in place and the survey of housing existing environmental problems were processed. This research designed questionnaire including caring spaces and facilities for wheel-chair aged users and bedside aged people, daily activity spaces and facilities for frail elderly to reach the housing requirements of aging in place. The scope of this research focused on urban area and selected Shiang-She Li, Shiang-Ya Li and She-Hou Li in Ban-Chiau city as community samples. One hundred and eighteen 45-64 years old residents and seventy-four over 65 years old residents were selected by random sampling to answer the need of aging in place.The findings show that the requirements including the locations of bathroom, feeding space and toilet, the routes to bathroom or toilet and the assisted facilities for moving up to bed or leaving bed had significant differences between different generations during the phase of using wheel-chair. The second, the requirements in terms of the location of pour-feeding space, the facilities of pour- feeding preparation, belongings storage and bedside caring operations had significant differences between different generations during the phase of bedside. The third, the requirements including type of indoor rehabilitation, improvement of indoor rehabilitation space and the need of lighting increased for the spaces of home environment had significant differences during the phase of disability. |