Designing Residential Buildings for Older People in China to Promote Ageing-in-place

Tulika Gadakari; Jingjing  Wang; Karim Hadjri; Junjie Huang

doi:10.21834/ajqol.v3i13.158

Designing Residential Buildings for Older People in China to Promote Ageing-in-place

Tulika Gadakari, Jingjing Wang, Karim Hadjri, Junjie Huang

University of Sheffield

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Abstract

Ageing-in-place is the most common ageing model in China. Therefore, design of age-friendly residential buildings and neighbourhoods becomes an important factor leading to improvement in older people’s health and quality of life. This paper presents the current situation of the ageing population in Chinese cities by qualitatively analysing existing literature, design standards and conducting stakeholder interviews to understand older people’s housing choices and aims to identify physical design factors, challenges and potentials of residential design for older people. The findings will fill the knowledge gap of age-friendly residential models in China and guide better design to meet older people’s needs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-28
Number of pages	11
Journal	Asian Journal of Quality of Life
Volume	3
Issue number	13
Early online date	25 Aug 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i13.158
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2018

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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Ageing
Age-friendly Design
Residential Building
Spatial Design

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