Abstract
This paper aims to examine spatial facility for respite care in nursing home. In order to understand that historical and present uses of rooms for respite care, it undertook an investigation for 30 nursing homes in Nara. The findings are as follows. (1) The room for respite care can be grouped into 3 type based on availability for users' 'private room'. 'Private room' was established by newly or when building extension. (2) In case of establishing 'private room', it is necessary to consider arrangement space, capacity and number of rooms. (3) In order to allocate room for cater for each user's needs, it is necessary to arrange reasonable number of respite care users. In case of not many respite care users, it is effective to provide each user to use a single room.
