Aasra old age home, Bhopal

Abstract

The care for the elderly through significant architecture can contribute them to live happy and respectful life. Also this platform will encourage them to be self-dependent and promoting the care for the old citizens. Thus, the research aimed to formulate design strategies for independent and safe living for elderly. The care for elderly can be given by understanding the needs of elderly that can be defined majorly in two ways- physical health needs and mental health needs. Hence, both the physiological and psychosocial/psychological aspects are discussed in the study. To understand the psychosocial aspects some supporting theories of old age are also mentioned. On the basis of these aspects (physiological and psychosocial) the issues/needs of elderly are identified. After analyzing these issues/needs of elderly some architectural requirements are found that fosters the care for elderly in terms of psychosocial aspects. Hence, the research considered all these issues/needs of the elderly and suggest some architectural requirements that can help to make the successful architecture for their living. Then how to incorporate these requirements in design some case studies are taken as examples. As a result on the basis of whole study finalizing some design strategies for making successful built environment of an old age living. The care for elderly is not just about to give them physical care by providing ramps and other accessibility measures, they also want mental care having some psychological issues, which is necessary to address. Hence, the main purpose of the study is to fulfill their psychosocial/ psychological aspects for healthy and active old age living.