THE POSSIBILITIES OF DISINSTTTUTIONALIZATION THROUGH CONVERTING A HOUSE TO A GROUP LIVING FOR THE AGED PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA

本研究的目的在于探讨如何在失智症居住团体中，创造适合居住者主观生活的环境。为了找到知识，我们评估Q.O.L.分析了影响居住质量的主要因素，提出了提高居住质量的措施。特别是，通过解决一个房子到一个群体生活的转换，我们找到了替代知识。转换有这样的空间特征，如各种气氛的地方，私人房间开放到公共空间，走廊开放到外面和私人房间，连通的房间，榻榻米垫，使居民坐在地板上。这些空间要素是改善患者自主生活和提高Q.O.L.的主要因素。同时，还讨论了使群体生活环境适应重症患者活动的空间规划方法。通过对这些居民的居住方式与其私人空间、公共空间、走廊等空间特征的关系进行分析，得出以下结论。症状严重的居民 * 的生活往往是被动的，他们居住的地方被限制在客厅或私人房间。因此，他们需要与他人的各种关系，活动，空间。为了使他们的生活活跃起来，需要一个开放的私人房间和一个与私人房间相邻的舒适的角落来联系他人和活动。房屋和屏障的转换将根据个人能力和性格的程度，将密集和过度的照顾转变为个人和适当的照顾。

The purpose of this research is to find the knowledge for creating the suitable environments to resident's subjective daily life in a group living for the dementia. To find the knowledge, we evaluate the Q.O.L. of the residents in the group living and analyze the primary factors to elevate the quality. Especially, by addressing conversion of a house to a group living, we find alternative knowledge. Conversion has such spatial characteristics as places with various atmospheres, private rooms open to common spaces, corridors opened to the outside and private room, connected room, tatami mats which enable the residents to sit on the floor. These spatial elements are primary factors improving the autonomous life and enhancing Q.O.L.Also, the methods of space planning for adapting group living environments to the activities of the residents with severe symptom are discussed. The relationship between the living styles of those residents and spatial characteristics of private room, common space, corridors is analyzed.This study leads some conclusions as follows. The life of residents *with severe symptom tends to be passive and the places where they stay are restricted to a living room or private rooms. So, they need some variety relationship with others, activity, spaces. In order to make their lives active, private room open to the common and a cozy corner adjacent to the private room are required to relate others and activities.The conversion of house and barriers change the intensive and exceeding care to personal and suitable care according as the degree of individual ability and character.