自立高齢者の地域支援施設のあり方に関する考察 : 多摩市いきがいデイサービスセンターの利用実態と利用者の特性

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This study is focused on the Ikigai Day Service Center(IDSC) which aims to offer to the elderly the daytime staying space and some programs of companionship and pastime activities. As it is the place where the elderly can spend their daytime life freely under the guardianship of support staffs, the elderly's environmental behavior should be effectively considered to the architectural planning of space. This study tries to consider the space structure and the meaning of the IDSC, by analyzing user's activities through a lot of the collected data in the close observations of their behavior and the way of using patterns of that space. As the results of this study, some meaningful suggestions are extracted as follows; first, it is very important to satisfy the various needs of the elderly with providing flexible spaces, second, it is a very valuable space for the elderly where they can realize and seek their religion of late in life, and third, it is enough doing functions as a comfortable shelter in local community.