BESiDE - The Built Environment for Social Inclusion in the Digital Economy

BESIDE的研究提出了一个问题：建筑环境如何促进养老院的身体活动和健康？我们的目标是将参与护理环境的利益相关者网络转变为设计改进的良性循环，其中建筑师，专业机构，学者，政策制定者，慈善机构和护理之家提供者都有动力追求改善老年人的建筑环境。随着人口结构的变化，养老院的数量不断增加，经济、健康和道德方面的考虑要求人们关注创造有利的建筑环境的有效手段，为老年人提供健康和充实的社会生活。这项研究解决了一个重大的知识差距，重点是采取措施，以减轻问题，提高老年人在建筑环境中的经验。老龄化的一个根本影响是一个人的需求和能力发生变化;然而，建筑环境未能对这些变化作出反应。尽管目前的立法法规和设计指南，很少有人知道从经验证据（由老年人，他们的家庭和护理提供者）的有利和不利的因素，建筑环境。这些元素从未被定义为支持建筑和数字技术设计的进步。通过对老年人护理环境的失败和成功进行系统分析，BESIDE研究将确定更明智的建筑设计如何促进老年人的更大流动性，身体活动，社会联系和福祉。此外，本组织的目标是：1）积极参与和通知建筑和设计的专业实践，通过研究集中在失败和成功的建筑环境（内部和外部）在老化的经验。2）通过在建筑环境中开发数字技术，以促进更大的流动性，提高生活质量，身体活动和老年人的连接影响专业实践。3)通过BESIDE的顾问委员会和项目合作伙伴，为政策提供信息，了解哪些设计和数字干预措施鼓励活动，以及如何设计这些措施以促进老年人的福祉。跨学科的合作，包括计算，建筑，医疗保健，老年医学和设计，将推动这项工作向前发展，并建立英国在建筑环境中支持老年人的能力。与老年人和利益攸关方的接触将塑造对建筑环境中福祉障碍的理解。

BESiDE's research asks the question: How can the built environment facilitate physical activity and wellbeing in care homes? Our goal is to transform the network of stakeholders involved in care environments into a virtuous cycle of design improvement, in which architects, professional bodies, academics, policy makers, charities, and care home providers are all motivated to pursue improvement in the built environment for older adults. With changes in population demographics resulting in a growing number of care homes, economic, health and ethical considerations demand that attention be directed to effective means of creating an enabling built environment to provide older adults with healthy and socially fulfilling lives. This research addresses a significant knowledge gap focussed on measures to mitigate problems and enhance the experience of older people within the built environment. A fundamental impact of ageing is that a person's needs and abilities change; however, the built environment is failing to respond to these changes. Despite current legislative statutes and design guidance, little is known from empirical evidence (generated by older people, their family and care providers) about enabling and disabling elements of the built environment. These elements have never been defined to support the advancement of building and digital technology design. Through systematic analysis of the failings and successes of older people's care environments, BESiDE research will identify how better-informed building design can facilitate greater mobility, physical activity, social connectedness and wellbeing of older people. BESiDE's aims are to: 1) Actively involve and inform professional practices of architecture and design through research focussed on failings and successes of the built environment (internal and external) across the experience of ageing.2) Impact professional practice through developing digital technologies within the built environment to promote greater mobility, improved quality of life, physical activity and connectivity of older people. 3) Inform policy, through BESiDE's Advisory Board and Project Partners, as to what designs and digital interventions encourage activity and how these can be engineered to facilitate increased wellbeing in older people.Collaboration across disciplines of computing, architecture, healthcare, medicine of old age and design will drive this work forward and build the UK's capability in supporting older people within the built environment. Engagement with older people and stakeholders will shape understanding of barriers to wellbeing within the built environment.