Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2019)
To study the special facilities available for elderly people in selected areas of their residence
Author(s): Preeti Singh and PR Sumangala
Abstract: A house may generally be divided into number of discrete areas that include bedroom, kitchen, living room, bathroom and others. Each area has special functioning work task, and it is thus necessary to design functional areas that do not impede the profile of an ageing user. Facilities available in the bedroom of elderly indicates that majority (91.00%) of elderly population were living on ground floor and 73.00 per cent had separate bedroom. A similar finding was reported by Sandhu et al. (2005) [4] where they lived on ground floor with flat entrance (68.30%) and enjoyed provision of small but separate room. However this indicates that about 27.00% of the respondents were sharing their room with others or vise versa and this was more among female respondents (32.00%). In more than 60.00% of human (67.00%) these was no attached bathroom /water closet. Among those it was present (32.00% male and 22.00% female) it was of Indian style of water closet. Availability of western water closet was very low (06.00%). Very few houses had additional facilities such emergency bell, floor carpet, bed switches / lamp and telephone, it was found to be less than 20.00 per cent.
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Preeti Singh, PR Sumangala. To study the special facilities available for elderly people in selected areas of their residence. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(2):1101-1103.
