| Authors |
Kim, Hye-Shin ; Park, Soobeen |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2019.35.9.19 |
| Keywords |
Aging in Place; Elderly; Residential Requirement; Housing Design Guidelines |
| Abstract |
Domestic and international laws and regulations on design of residential environment are adopted, revised and supplemented to solve the
problems such as access, safety and privacy in the residential space of the elderly and the disabled. This study is an comparative analysis of
Korea and Japan, USA, UK laws and regulations on environment design by literature review. The purpose of this study is to present the
basic materials required for development of the standard that would supports the undiscriminatory physical environment for the socially weak
who are experiencing aging and disability, due to the restricted scope of entrance, bathroom and kitchen spaces with high frequency of safety
accident. The results of this study are as follows. (1) Design guidelines on residential environment were compared under five residential
factors for aging in place: safety, accessibility, amenity, usability and privacy. (2) The guidelines of each country applied to the entrance,
bathroom and kitchen space were compared. (3) The results showed present guidelines should be completed with ‘safety’, ‘accessibility’,
‘amenity’, ‘usability’ and ‘privacy’ for Aging in place |