Optimization Research On Wayfinding Design Of General Hospital Outpatient Building Based On The Needs Of Elderly Patients

The medical needs of the elderly are increasing with the aging of the population in our country,and the increase of elderly patients has put forward higher requirements for the wayfinding design of the outpatient building.Although the field of domestic medical architectural design has realized that wayfinding design cannot be simply equated with signage design,it has yet to be further implemented in design practice,and the wayfinding needs of elderly patients have yet to be considered in the scope of medical architectural design.In order to improve the difficulty in finding the way for middle-aged and elderly outpatients in general hospitals,it is necessary to improve the architectural design of the existing hospital outpatient rooms based on the needs of elderly patients,so that they can obtain effective guidance from indoor and outdoor environmental information when they seek medical treatment in the hospital,and can go smoothly.Arrive at the functional departments required for the medical treatment process,etc.For this reason,this study started from the analysis of elderly patients’ needs for wayfinding design of general hospital outpatient buildings,focusing on three aspects:efficiency,safety,and comfort;based on demand analysis,the elderly Evaluation and research related to patient wayfinding,and then carry out targeted literature research and analysis of excellent domestic and foreign examples,and propose corresponding design optimization strategies for the current problems summarized and sorted out one by one,and apply them in an engineering design practice,combined with virtual Realistic experiments,design verification and summary of its feasibility and effectiveness.This study first combined the special wayfinding needs of middle-aged and elderly outpatients in general hospitals with the design elements of the hospital outpatient building,and summarized 3 general design requirements and 8 specific design requirements for elderly patients’ wayfinding;secondly,through important Based on the collation of gender questionnaire data,this study clarified that efficiency is the core demand for wayfinding for elderly outpatients,and providing guidance elements in environmental design is the key to improving the efficiency of hospital wayfinding for elderly outpatients;afterward,nine general hospitals in Beijing were carried out.In the field survey and evaluation,part of the content is the evaluation of the wayfinding satisfaction of elderly outpatients in the outpatient building.The research found that: elderly outpatients are more satisfied with the wayfinding design of the hospital outpatient building numbered YY01,and less satisfied with YY06;Through the wayfinding performance experiment of elderly outpatients,the correlation between the evaluation of wayfinding satisfaction in outpatient buildings of general hospitals and the level of wayfinding design in outpatient buildings of general hospitals was tested.The hospital with higher satisfaction level has a higher level of wayfinding design.At the same time,through field research on hospitals with lower satisfaction scores of elderly outpatients,the research summarizes the current problems of wayfinding design in 15 general hospitals and analyzes them.Reasons;on this basis,combined with literature research and analysis of excellent examples at home and abroad,this study puts forward 20 optimization suggestions for the wayfinding design of general hospital outpatient buildings under the background of aging.Finally,taking the example of the outpatient building of an existing hospital as the object of renovation design,by removing the non-load-bearing walls of the self-service registration area and increasing the connectivity of the area,a suitable color design for the consultation room is carried out,and the font of the logo is enlarged to improve the legibility.The color-oriented optimization design of the escalator and the design of the guidance platform were used to optimize the hospital’s wayfinding design,verify the feasibility of the design method,and verify the effectiveness of the transformation method through virtual reality simulation experiments.