The final aim of this study is to clarify what kind of space should be provided in facilities which accommodate long-term patients/residents. This paper tries to clarify the way of utilizing such a space like day-space in hospitals and nursing homes and their desire of behavior. The surveys on free-time behavior of inpatients/residents were carried out in two hospitals and a nursing home. Several conclusions deducted from analyzing the result of the surveys are as follows: Inpatients' free-time behavior are diversity, they spend their some free-time at day-space and the time of stay there is very short. Then we try a new method to classify inpatients from the view point of motivation of their actions at free-time. They are (1) Type of active action for varied tastes (2) Type of active action for one taste (3) Type of conscious action for a change (4) Type of passive action for a change (5) Type of passive action for routine (6) Type of few actions.
