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Inclusive and Accessible Homes for Older People: The Preparation of Guidelines for Home Design

Authors:
Sandeep Sankat

Keywords: Older people; Inclusive and Accessible Homes; Environment-behavior Research Tools; Guidelines

Abstract:
The target of this research is to create an inclusive living environment in urban houses for Indian older people through guidelines for home design. Along with the study of associated problems of older people and international concepts, an extensive literature review has been performed to understand the theoretical and methodological foundations. Preliminary diagnostic surveys are performed to study and establish the need for the creation of inclusive living environments for Indian older people for the built environment design. Field surveys were conducted to identify the challenges/ issues that older people face in the ‘Activities of Daily Living’ (ADLs). The surveys are performed for the upcoming urban housing typologies in India. The upcoming typologies were identified through the scientific layering of the data with a market survey. Older people in the existing urban housing typologies and in the age group of 60 to 85 years, independent elderly, frail elderly, and dependent elderly were studied using environment-behavior study tools. The data collected from interview questionnaires, audio, trace-study, and photographs, were analyzed to identify environmental issues. Analysis and synthesis are done based on these issues to identify the possibilities of interventions for the built environment in housing. It has been established through validation and testing that the gap to create inclusive living environments for Indian older people can be filled by guidelines for home design. Thus, a methodology to develop the guidelines to create ‘Inclusive and Accessible Homes for the Indian Older People’ is prepared. With help of these guidelines ‘Inclusive and Accessible Homes’ in urban residences can be designed for Indian older people.

Pages: 42 to 48

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: April 24, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8378

ISBN: 978-1-68558-084-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023