Research On The Barrier-free Home Design Based On The Physiological And Behavioral Characteristics Of The Elderly

With the advent of a Chinese aging society, the traditional way of old-age care in China will be subject to hitherto unknown challenge. Funded by the government of the construction of the elderly nursing home is a kind of international common practice, but for Chinese family is difficult to become a mainstream. The main place Chinese elderly in the future will also be home. This requires the construction for the elderly residential environment. Based on the principle of accessibility design of interior space and furniture products can be enhanced to a certain extent, the elderly at home activity.This research adopts the investigation method, and combined with the actual object of observation, physiological and behavioral characteristics of the elderly were systematically investigated, analyzed and summarized according to research data, summarizes the Countermeasures for the elderly at home in barrier free design.This study obtained the following conclusions:Ⅰ. The physiological characteristics of elderlyThe author obtained through access to medical records and investigation: the elderly due to aging or cause bodily functions corresponding decline or damage. The performance of the elderly and ordinary people in various systems have obvious difference, the difference with the ordinary people, the most obvious is the body scale, visual auditory and motor system.Ⅱ. The behavioral characteristics of elderlyIn order to study the refinement of elderly behavior, according to the present life and physical condition of the elderly will be divided into four types——living with children and self-care, living alone and self-care, living with children need nursing, living along need nursing, and compared their capacity for differentiation, through the investigation and field survey to sort out the home furnishing behavioral problems, summed up the behavior characteristics of four functional space with the Home Furnishing.Through the investigation on four types of old people’s behavior, the author record their activities in the living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathrooms, collected the behavior characteristics of inductive material from the elderly in need; Starting with the capacity needed in home of older persons, by questionnaire and interview material, use statistical analysis to find the differences in the ability caused by aging body, and to research on four types of difference of capacity of older persons; According to the required capacity in four functional space: living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, concluded the household behavior of four types of elderly.Ⅲ. Old people’s barrier-free home furnishing design measuresBased on the study of elderly physiological and behavioral characteristics, research the barrier-free design system for the home furnishing functional space and various types of furniture.Study on accessibility in the elderly home furnishing design, function, behavior of each functional space are analyzed, with the needs and behavior characteristics of the elderly as the basis, put forward Home Furnishing barrier free design principles to meet the needs of the elderly, thus expand the function space in the living room of the barrier free design research; in the non barrier design principle next, fully consider the behavior of the elderly, the line layout and system optimization behavior of function space, put forward the barrier free design of furniture products, size indicators guidance and function, and add auxiliary facilities to enhance the quality of life of elderly people, protect the elderly life home furnishing safe; According to the needs of the elderly and consumer psychology, analyzed the differences of visual and consumer psychology in the home style, color and other aspects compared with ordinary people, for the elderly home furnishing design aspects, such as style, furniture design, color materials and puts forward some corresponding suggestions.