Research on the Integration of Age-friendly Design into Community Elderly Care Paths in Dalian—Taking a Community in Dalian as an Example

Abstract

Population aging is the inevitable result of the improvement of people's living standards and the extension of life expectancy, which brings with it huge pressure on the elderly care, and the elderly care problem is imminent. Compared with some developed countries that entered the aging society earlier in the world, the "getting rich first and then getting old" laid a theoretical foundation for aging-friendly transformation, while China's "getting old before getting rich" when entering the aging society undoubtedly adds difficulty to solving or alleviating the elderly care problem. Under such circumstances, China's aging-friendly buildings are not optimistic in terms of quantity or quality. At this time, it is of great significance to study the design of elderly living space that truly conforms to China's national conditions.
This study extracts and summarizes the existing excellent cases, takes the real needs of Chinese elderly people and the prediction of China's national conditions that it will enter a deep aging stage in the future as the basis, and on the basis of design that reflects humanistic care, combined with the trend of aging in the new era, focuses on designing a community renovation case that meets the use behavior of the elderly, combines indoor and outdoor space with reasonable space scale and comfortable psychological atmosphere. Therefore, in the design of Dalian elderly care community, this case will propose a method of aging-friendly space renovation that is full of humanistic care details and innovative. The research on the aging-friendly renovation of a community in Dalian is mainly carried out from two aspects: spatial planning principles and key points of indoor and outdoor space aging-friendly design, including plane layout principles, furniture selection and customization, material selection and other design contents. Through the completion of this research and design, more humanized and artistic design connotations are given to aging - friendly design, providing some ideas for the future construction of elderly care communities and the design of elderly living spaces in China.