Recently “Co-housing” is being accepted in Northern European countries, which have the higher percentage of elderly for a long time. The characteristics of the “Co-housing” is equipped with space for individual and with common room.
In this report, we aimed to make these as a basis in supplying new type of housing with elderly people in the future.
The results obtained by the analysis of the surveys in 3 cases of this kind in Norway were as follows:(1) Most of the residents are in their 70's and 80's, but they are rather healthy.(2) At the common house, they have meetings and eat together regularly. And also some people use it for party etc.(3) Some of the biggest merits are “no feeling of loneliness”, “co-operation with one another”, “feel safety than living alone”.(4) On demerits, many of them answered “nothing”. But some people think “because of the different health condition, only a part of the residents owing much responsibility”.(5) All of the residents who answered the questionnaire estimated their “Co-housing”, “very good” or “good”.
