RESEARCH ON COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTERS FOR THE ELDERLY IN CHINA

Abstract

This study is concerned with elderly people’s community day care center design which is one of the contents to support the elderly in the community. This study aimed to designed and arrange a safety and comfortable community day care center. The research instruments were the questionnaires and the interview, and use muti-methodologies and collected data to improve the community day care center for elderly and to understand the interior environments form can provide health care and rehabilitation, exchange and entertainment space, use it can achieve the elderly entrusted to the community during the day. The findings revealed that the community day care center for the elderly the scale is different, the location layout is not standard, the space is simple, the composition content is insufficient, the function housing is missing and limited the development community day care centers. In order to facilitate an improvement in this research a whole.