Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the problems on the planning and supporting the public supply of collective housing for the elderly by analyzing continuously the change in the residents' living style there. Continuous research has been conductedon three early cases of public collective housing for the elderly. Regarding the three cases, we have interviewed a representative and an assistant in the housing, investigated how the areas and space for the residents' mutual communication are used, and carried out a survey using a questionnaire to the residents three times, i. e., six months, one and a half years, and four and a half years after the residents started living at the housing.
The results of the analysis show that the following two kinds of support need to be considered and prepared at the stage of planning public collective housing for the elderly. One is full and intensive support that should be provided for the residents immediately after they start living in the public collective housing for the elderly. The other is further support that must be given continuously to the residents according to the stage of their living after they get settled in the housing for the elderly.
