The Formation Factor of Local Resicents' Awareness of Facility for the Elderaly and Impact of the Condition of Location

Abstract

A study on relationship between condition of location and structure of local residents' awareness of the facility for the elderly (Part2) Heewon CHOI, Kazuoki OHARA and Yasuhiro FUJIOKA This study focused on the local residents' contact of facility for the elderly and correlation with environmental characteristic of site. Then, we tried to verify the hypothetical consciousness structure which is combined with previous paper's one. It is 'Community attachment-Evaluation of facility-Contact pattern of facility' and correlation between environmental characteristic of site and these triangular model. The results are as follows. 1. There are four factors on contact type to the facility, which are 'Facility contact', 'Information contact', 'Sensory contact', and 'Service contact'. 2. Local residents can be grouped 5 clusters by contact pattern, which are 'No contact group', 'Sensory contact group', 'Service contact group', 'Service/facility contact group', and 'Information/facility contact group'. And individual properties or image of facility showed correlation with these contact pattern. 3. The significant causality between contact of facility and evaluation of facility has verified. 4. Though it is same contact factor, it can work as different effect factor-positive effect factor or negative one-by difference of site environment. Through these results, this study could show the basis of the methodology on site planning or facility planning, considering the process which is from contact of facility to community attachment.