jailcd2020002: The Spatial Composition of Residential Type Nursing Homes in Japan

Abstract

The residential type nursing home, as a main kind of the elderly facilities in Japan, is popular for the elderly because of its relative lower fee and less limitation. And the residential type nursing home has its own relative stable and mature system after decades of development, so it is significative to provide inference value for others countries, especially the developing countries. For certain, different kinds of the elderly facilities have different configuration conditions depending on the different requirements of the elderly. Therefore, it is important to consider clearly what interior configurations the residential type nursing home should have, can satisfy the living requirements of the elderly who live in. And the interior configuration will influence the space composition directly, so, this paper aims to study on what kinds of interior configurations and how much area of them in the nursing homes, then to realize more about the development and the elderly life condition of the nursing home nowadays, as well as to provide suggestions and directions for elderly facility design and development in a way.