International Journal of Research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 3

Intellectual and physical development of the elderly: architectural design and their behavioral patterns

  • Author:
  • Mehdi Kamyabchenari, Azadeh Mahmoudi
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 8 to 15

Department of Engineering, Chaloos Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chaloos, Iran

Abstract

Health needs of people in each period of life is a result of social causes. Elderly people are in need of support in the community. The architecture should not only explain, consolidated, and observe the specific principles and standards for this class, but also must be defined spatial pattern peculiar to these people. As an example of these spaces, we can define day care centers, which used as daily residences and a place of leisure for seniors, and not only meet the needs of these people, but make sense of usefulness, increased life expectancy, and will be effective in improvement of the elderly morale.

Keywords

Design, day care center, aging, behavioral pattern, growth, health