Human Development and Environment-oriented approach for supporting active and vivid development of elderly people

本研究从老年人能够实现积极活泼的发展和提供支持发展的生活环境的角度出发，采取了四种方法：1.生活环境心理学，2.生活环境科学，3.环境生理学，4.生物力学。对于生活环境的第一种方法，本研究与护理机构的从业人员合作，提出了“创造一个支持老年人积极活泼发展的生活环境的指导原则”。在第二种方法中，这项研究考察了住房条件的改善是否有助于老年人的活动或增加他们的生活动力。探讨了成人尿布对饮食环境的味觉机制，以及成人尿布与服装环境生活动机的相关性。对于环境生理学的第三种方法，本研究阐明了老年人的生理和心理社会能力随着他们的环境过渡而变化，并探讨了如何预防跌倒和环境过渡的方式。在生物力学的第四种方法方面，对福利装置的工程创新进行了研究，有助于促进主动发展。

From a standpoint that the elderly can achieve proactive and lively development and that a living environment to support the development is to be provided, this study has taken four approaches : 1. psychology for living environment, 2. living environmental sciences, 3. environmental physiology, 4. biomechanics.As to the first approach of phycology for living environment, with collaboration from those who are engaged in nursing facilities, the study proposes "guiding principles for the creation of a living environment which supports proactive and lively development of the elderly". In the second approach, the research examines whether improvement on housing condition helps the elderly's movements or increase their motivation for life. It also explores the mechanism of taste on eating environment and the correlation between adult diapers and the motivation for life on clothing environment. For the third approach of environmental physiology, the study clarifies how physical and psychological social competence of the elderly changes as their environmental transition, and explores how prevention of falling should be done and the way environmental transition should be. In the aspect of the fourth approach of biomechanics, engineering innovation for welfare devices has been researched, which helps promote proactive development.