2018 Volume 24 Issue 58 Pages 1149-1154
Cooperative-Style group home is expected to provide a synergistic kind of care to elderly with dementia and people with disability who live together. They have access to shared common space and equipment (i.e. entrances, bathrooms, toilets). These group homes are the first of their kind practicing the pioneering framework from conventional homes. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge about of Cooperative-Style Group Homes by proxemic behavioral analysis, specially the interpretation of the movement patterns of residents, and to offer the knowledge about common space composition, construction and the facilities plan.
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