LIFESTYLE OF AGED HOUSEHOLDS BEFORE HOUSING RENOVATION OF TWO ROOM AND ONE KITCHEN TYPE OF HOUSING UNIT : A research on the renovation of existent public housing for aged households Part 1

中園, 眞人; 大庭, 知子; 佐々木, 俊寿

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“…Sawada (2001) found that the elderly tended to eat and relax in a south-facing living room but slept separately in Japanese-style rooms. Nakazono, et al (2006) found that in dwelling units with two rooms, the elderly tended to install tall furniture-such as wardrobes-in the smaller room and used the larger room for main living activities, such as dining and relaxing. Lin et al (2006) found that the elderly Chinese in Dalian and Harbin used the same primary room during the day when they slept in the same room and separate primary rooms when they slept separately.…”

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Elderly Chinese Couples' Primary Room Use in Urban Apartments

Zhang

Matsushita

et al. 2010

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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This study aimed to clarify room use in the dwelling units of elderly Chinese couples in their daily lives. For this purpose, the authors used Active Radio Frequency Identification technology (Active RFID) to identify the room (Base) in which elderly Chinese couples stay for the longest duration between rising and going to bed. Findings showed that the surveyed couples could be classified into two types: i.) Those who use and share the bedroom as Base, and ii.) Those who use the living room as a shared Base in the evening and tend to use different rooms as Base during the day. Most elderly men stayed in the same Base during the day, while the elderly women used multiple rooms in the morning. The Base obtained by objective observation (Objective Base) and the Base identified by subjects (Subjective Base) were more in accord during the day. This shows that the Base in the mind of the subjects indicated the room where they spent the most time during the day. In summer, they also chose a north-facing or windowless room as Base. Additional interviews revealed that this choice was made because such rooms were cooler.

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Elderly Chinese Couples' Primary Room Use in Urban Apartments

Zhang

Matsushita

et al. 2010

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Change in Lifestyle of Aged Single-Person Households With Housing Unit Renovation of Two Rooms and Kitchen to One Room and Dining Kitchen in Ube City

中園¹,

大庭²,

佐々木³

2009

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The purpose of this research is to reveal what changes have taken place in the lifestyle of aged single-person households after their dwellings were renovated from 2K to 1DK. The changes indicate that 80% of the dwellers chose to have their meals in the DK room and sleep in the traditional Japanese-style 6 mat tatami room (about 9.96 m 2). Due to preferences developed over a long lifetime , and due to the DK room's usually being small, many single living elders use tables only without accompanying chairs in the DK in their daily lives. On the other hand, 20% of the single living elders mainly live in the Japanese-style room without using the DK room at all. The research also shows that the single elderly people disposed of part of the furniture possessed by the family when they moved to the renovated house. The single elders who spend their daily lives mainly in one room tend to place a lot furniture in the other room. This is a remarkable feature witnessed in the survey.

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An Analysis of the Room Use of Elderly Chinese Couples Living in Urban Apartments Through Active Rfid Technology

Qu¹,

Matsushita²,

Yosida³

2010

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We aimed to clarify, by studying individual cases, the personal room use in the dwelling units of Chinese elderly couples in their daily lives. The room use was identified on the basis of the room in which they stayed the longest (base) and the route between the pair of rooms that they passed through most frequently (main Link) by using sensing technology. The findings showed that the couples tended to stay most in the living room and master bedroom and moved between the dining room and kitchen most frequently. The dining and living rooms were used as hubs (rooms that had a main link with most rooms). The studied couples could be divided into two groups on the basis of whether or not they used the shared base (room used as the base by both husband and wife) as the hub.The grouping of room use did not correspond to the dwelling unit type.

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LIFESTYLE OF AGED HOUSEHOLDS BEFORE HOUSING RENOVATION OF TWO ROOM AND ONE KITCHEN TYPE OF HOUSING UNIT : A research on the renovation of existent public housing for aged households Part 1

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Elderly Chinese Couples' Primary Room Use in Urban Apartments

Elderly Chinese Couples' Primary Room Use in Urban Apartments

Change in Lifestyle of Aged Single-Person Households With Housing Unit Renovation of Two Rooms and Kitchen to One Room and Dining Kitchen in Ube City

An Analysis of the Room Use of Elderly Chinese Couples Living in Urban Apartments Through Active Rfid Technology

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