LIVING CONDITION AND RESIDENT'S VIEW IN COLLECTIVE HOUSES FOR THE AGED : In case of public housing built in 1990-1991 in Otofuke, Akabira and Takikawa(Architectural Planning and Design)

Abstract

Recently, the environment that the aged can live healthy and independently is demanded. Some measures against such various problems as loneliness death becomes necessary. In such situation, collective houses for the aged have been given various devices to support them and to have a substantial life. However it is asked whether they are appropriate. Then, in this, study, while clarifying living condition and resident's view in the collective houses for the aged (Otofuke hureai housing, Akabira hinode haitu, and Takikawa hureai home), the passage of time change of resident's life style and of demand for living pay attention, and by comparing the present with the past, it aims at exploring the state of the future collective houses for the aged.