A Study on the Urban Elderly Housing for the Community Integration

도시형 노인복지주택의 커뮤니티연계 계획에 관한 연구

Most of the urban type elderly housing facilities are isolated from the community and have no space for residents & local residents to share friendship and time. For this reason, this study focuses on the activation of community integration within urban-type elderly housing facilities and the future direction of community integration. To present of future direction for the community integration, 6 impeding factors, each 3 internal and external impeding factors, are extracted from urban-type cases and compared with the United States' and Japan' good cases. The result of this study can be summarized as follows: to better enhance internal community-link: (1) aging in place of resident (2) family & inter-generational interaction (3) carefully planned space for community and separation of core in the facilities and to better enhance external community-link: (1) active opening of service facilities to the neighborhood (2) active use of local community facilities (3) planning of community space such as 'community center' in the facilities. The aims of community integration are to enhance an open, inter-generational, and 'age friendly' community, at large.