Elderly landscape use in nursing home: Konya Dr.I.Işık nursing home example

Abstract

The ageing is an irrepressible fact in terms of biology, history and social-cultural life. It has many concerns of many science disciplines. It is not sufficient to this fact just psychological or mental. Demographic changes show the elderly population is the fastest growing part of the world’s population, particularly in World. Therefore, populations become older and more disabled and these trends continue in the future. The aging process restricts the many physical and cognitive abilities of the elderly. This study aims to find suitable landscape feature used by elderly people in nursing home outdoor spaces to make daily living activities more efficient and satisfying for them and reveal the criteria to reach a solution. These landscape feature aim to improve the independently living and the quality of life of elderly people and connect them to social life.

In this study, for various reasons (illness, at his own request, so involuntarily.) The adequacy of the nursing home to nursing home resident's garden landscape they found the elderly, desires of individuals in terms of landscape and nursing home of their time in the garden how to make better quality, were examined. As a result, expectation of landscape design among elderly people is affected by age, gender, educational level and marital status. Considering these variables in health care services available for elderly people will improve the quality of services and their life.