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Study on the Changes of Elderly Couple's Living Style and Sustainable Residential Designing

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Targeted at elderly couple's families, this paper analyzes the residence relationship among the elderly couples and focuses on the link between changes in living style and health state of the elderly through the change of the place in which elderly couples sleep, have meals, do daily living and so on. On the basis of the living style characteristics and living demand of the elderly couples, this paper comes up with suggestions for sustainable residential designing for them.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 357-360)

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75-81

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.357-360.75

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August 2013

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Wen Jie Lin*, Yu Jun Yang, Zhe Yu

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Elderly Couple, Home-Care, Living Style, Residential Design, Sustainable Living

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[1] 《The planning and construction of social endowment service system（2011-2015）》The State Council issued, 2011. 12.

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[2] According to the definition of the 《Architectural design specification for the elderly》 (JGJ122-99), The elderly whose life behavior depend on Armrests, crutches, wheelchairs, lift facilities is called device-aided elderly" while the elderly whose behavior depend on others is called " nursing-cared elderly.

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[3] Self-care elderly: The elderly who can fully take care of themselves without relying on others; Nursing-cared that can move: The elderly whose life behaviors are in need of other persons' help, while he is able to walk to other place; Bedridden but consciousness clear: most time need to stay on bed, while have meal is able to sit up, also can communicate with people. Bedridden and consciousness: completely bedridden and cannot communicate with other people.

DOI: 10.7748/eldc.2.2.8.s16

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