Elderly People’s Living Space and Well-Being Design Based on Ergonomic Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 320-325
Author(s):  
Xing Ji
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Living Space

scholarly journals How is COVID-19 Experience Transforming Sustainability Requirements of Residential Buildings? A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8732
Author(s):  
Galym Tokazhanov ◽  
Aidana Tleuken ◽  
Mert Guney ◽  
Ali Turkyilmaz ◽  
Ferhat Karaca
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Significant Harm

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing about changes, and alongside these, we can alter the way we design our living spaces. The need for a healthy and comfortable living space is essential to mental and physical well-being. The present study covers the most up-to-date documents, including peer-reviewed papers, blog posts, news, journal articles, and expert opinions, to critically review lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and evaluates the expected changes in sustainability requirements of residential buildings. Health and safety, environment, and comfort are the three main aspects of residential buildings that have been tested during quarantines and are also expected to experience major transformations toward sustainability. Residential houses should provide certain health and safety protective measures to their occupants, such as the application of new touchless technologies, having proper sanitation to diminish the probability of getting infected, and developing greener and more intimate spaces that can help recover and improve mental states. Our findings address the need to reconsider sustainability requirements for residential buildings, which will provide adequate health and safety and comfort with no significant harm to the environment.

scholarly journals Living Space and Job Prospects and Their Relationship with Subjective Well-Being during COVID-19 Confinement in Spain: The Mediator Role of Resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9198
Author(s):  
Fernando Molero ◽  
Patricia Recio ◽  
Encarnación Sarriá
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Mediator Role ◽  
Job Prospects

The objective of this study was to examine the relationships of participants’ home characteristics (living space) and job prospects after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to their subjective psychological well-being (SWB) (in terms of both affective and cognitive aspects). We also examined the role of participants’ resilience as a possible mediator in the relationships among the aforementioned variables. The sample comprised 474 Spanish adults who completed an online questionnaire between 14 and 24 April 2020, when COVID-19 confinement was very strict in Spain. We proposed a path analysis model including the described variables. The model presented a good fit (χ2 = 7.41, df = 5, p = 0.376, comparative fit index = 0.996, Tucker–Lewis index = 0.987; root mean square error of approximation = 0.032). The results indicated that living space and future job prospects predicted resilience, which, in turn, was related to SWB. Moreover, the bootstrapping results revealed a mediating effect of resilience that showed indirect relationships between living space and SWB and between job prospects and SWB. Our results underline the importance of environmental (living space) and job-related variables to predict SWB as well as the mediating role that resilience may play during the confinement period.

scholarly journals ON PROPOSALS FOR ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO SANITARY-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS TO LIVING CONDITIONS IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AND PREMISES

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (7) ◽  
pp. 707-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Gorbanev ◽  
N. A. Mozzhukhina ◽  
Gennady B. Yeremin ◽  
S. N. Noskov ◽  
A. O. Karelin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Air Exchange Rate ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Free Environment

Residential buildings and premises must comply with sanitary rules and regulations, but a lot of provisions of sanitary and epidemiological requirements for living conditions contradict Federal legislation and do not provide for the regulation of public relations arising in the process of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of population at all stages of arranging residential buildings and premises, therefore they require updating. International, national regulatory legal acts of a number of countries, regulatory legal acts of Russian Federation, establishing sanitary and epidemiological requirements for living conditions in residential buildings and premises, research studies carried out in Russia and abroad were used as research materials. A set of general scientific research methods: analytical, system-structural, comparative was a procedural basis of the study. Widening of the scope of sanitary standards and rules: extension of responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the document to the executive authorities, expanding the list of objects prohibited for allocation in residential buildings, measures to ensure a barrier-free environment for the disabled, requirements of inadmissibility of residential building destruction by mold, and others were suggested as the results of the study. Due to the fact that the problem of fresh air is common, the design indices of air and air exchange rate are proposed. Recommended changes regarding noise regulation assume the elimination of contradictions when correction coefficients are applied. Conclusions. Analysis of current sanitary and epidemiological requirements enabled to specify indoor environmental factors of the living space, originating from an interaction of outdoor environment, indoor environment of the living space and direct effect of the human himself and on which favorable living conditions depend, and elaborate on the reasons of violations of the established requirements. Suggested changes and additions corresponded to the main trends existing in international practice are aimed at specifying the provisions of the document, optimizing a number of standards, and eliminating contradictions. It is noted that regulation and monitoring of dwelling condition cannot be limited just by the indoor premises of the building. It is necessary to consider the living environment as a united system: human - residential unit (apartment, room, and auxiliary facilities) - building - surrounding grounds- microdistrict - residential area of the city.

The Participation of Biophilic Design in the Design of the Post-Pandemic Living Space

2022 ◽  
pp. 75-106
Author(s):  
Miray Gür ◽  
Timur Kaprol
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Biophilic Elements

During the COVID-19 process, nature has been a place of escape regarding socialization and well-being. The aim of biophilic design, which supports physical and mental health in a fair and accessible way, is to evaluate the interaction with a healthy environment and to develop design proposals in this context. As a method, post-pandemic requirements, behaviors, and spatial scales are examined through a model in terms of biophilic design, and suggestions are made for the new normal by researching biophilic elements. The biophilic design provides the potential to use nature, daylight, air, and vitality as design elements to improve the quality of spaces and support the experiences of societies. Apart from including green spaces and ecosystems in the design, biophilic design can enrich the multisensory and multidimensional experiences both individually and socially by enabling users to participate in this experience. While this approach supports sound, healthy, and safe living spaces, it will also provide for cities to be sustainable and resilient.

Urban Planning throughout Human Well-Being

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2498-2504
Author(s):  
Liang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Article Analysis ◽  
Planning Development

Urban planning is a comprehensive subject and continually related with other areas. As the main living space, cities play an important role to people’s life in many aspects. From the view of health and life quality that are mainly affect human wellbeing, the article analysis the affection of urban planning to human wellbeing. The author suggests a multi-disciplinary approach for understanding of the human well-being in urban planning area, and exploring the human well-being oriented urban planning development.

scholarly journals Geomorphic Hazard Map for Spatial Planning Purposes

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Taryono
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Hazard Map ◽  
Thematic Map ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Natural And Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Geomorphologic Hazard

In the planning of spatial lay-out oriented to environmental concept, it requires the information input conneting with the condition of local environment. This condition constitutes the features characteristic of the living space which consist of natural and social environment. One of the natural environment elements, neede to the spatial lay-out planning, is the dynamis geomorphology. The process of the dynami is some times accelerated and increased by natural and anthropogenic factors. The abnormality in both acceleration and the increase will cause a natural disaster, which is based on the landscape approach it is called the geomorphologic hazard. In connection with such event thematic map of geomorphologic hazard describes the disaster susceptibility of an area. The geomorphologic hazard map is an output map whose information is obtainable from thematic map conneting with population, land use, topography, geomorphology, rainfall, hydrological data, and slope classification. Both land use and population maps desccribes the anthropogenic factors. The role of the geomorphologic hazard map, in the planning of spatial lay-out and environmental management, i.e. preventive, represive, rehabilitative, and serves as the basis for interpretation and management of living spere. By putting geomorphologic hazard into map compilation of spatial lay-out (cultural and non cultural area map) a footstep advance is the reached to guarantee human security and their treasures, and human well-being as an integral part of human living prosperity.

Enhancing social and individual sustainability in urban co-living

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christin Mellner ◽  
Maria Niemi ◽  
Elin Pollanen ◽  
Walter Osika
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Psychological Flexibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Living Space

Purpose Urbanisation is trending globally, leading to population densification and housing shortage and people living increasingly in isolation. This entails challenges to sustainable development including ecological, social and well-being issues. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of a six-month onboarding self-leadership programme including exercises in mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy, amongst residents in a co-living space (n = 24) and a waiting list (n = 21). Design/methodology/approach At baseline and post-intervention, participants filled out questionnaires and two waves of in-depth interviews (n = 24) were conducted. Repeated measures one-way analysis of variance and thematic text analyses were performed. Findings Participation in the programme significantly (all ps < 0.000 to 0.050) improved relationship quality and communication about one’s needs regarding work-non-work boundaries, especially amongst residents at the co-living space. Moreover, programme participation significantly increased perceived work-non-work boundary control, work-life balance, psychological well-being, psychological flexibility and self-compassion, with effect sizes (hp2) in the medium to the large range (0.14 to 0.39). Qualitative findings suggested that increased psychological flexibility and self-compassion encouraged co-living residents to be more vulnerable and trusting, which enabled communication regarding one’s needs and enhanced mutual social support and relationship quality. This, in turn, improved overall boundary management, work-life balance and well-being. Originality/value Co-living settings – while contributing to overall sustainable development through more efficient use of space and resources – can also contribute to societal and individual sustainability. However, to ensure this contribution, the physical environment including private areas and common and semi-public areas, as well as the socio-emotional environment need to be considered.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Philip V. Mladenov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Recreation And Tourism

The oceans cover 71 per cent of our planet’s surface, create a vast globally connected fluid living space, and support a diverse array of life forms. The Introduction outlines the ocean environment’s role in providing essential services for human survival and well-being. They produce half of the oxygen we breath; stabilize our climate; sustain ecosystems that protect our coasts; provide us with abundant healthy food and with natural products for medicine and biotechnology; and support many forms of recreation and tourism. But all of this is under threat due to human activity. Action is required to create a more sustainable relationship with our oceans so that they can be restored and protected for future generations.

scholarly journals Living space and psychological well-being in urban China: Differentiated relationships across socio-economic gradients

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 911-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Hu ◽  
Rory Coulter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Family Wealth

Western research has shown that a shortage of living space is associated with poor psychological well-being. By contrast, norms and practices of extended family co-residence, collectivist social organization, and a bureaucratic quota-based housing allocation system were thought to limit the adverse psychological effects of cramped dwelling conditions in pre-reform China. As these buffers may be weakening with the dramatic housing reforms, socio-economic, and cultural changes taking place in post-reform urban China, we use data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies ( N = 13,367) to re-examine the relationship between living space and psychological well-being in contemporary Chinese cities. In particular, we examine the ways in which this relationship is moderated by family wealth and community poverty in order to explore how subjective experiences of dwelling space are shaped by one’s relative socio-economic position. The results show that cramped living conditions are significantly associated with poor psychological well-being in post-reform urban China. Importantly, the psychological implications of cramped dwellings may vary with family and particularly community socio-economic status as this association tends to be stronger among more affluent families and communities than among those that are more impoverished. Taken together the findings indicate that uneven socio-economic development, segmented cultural change, and drastic housing reforms within China’s cities may be interacting to configure people’s housing experiences and health outcomes.

scholarly journals A Framework of Smart-Home Service for Elderly’s Biophilic Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8572
Author(s):  
Eun Ji Lee ◽  
Sung Jun Park
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Home Service ◽  
Optimal Health ◽  
Home Technology ◽  
Smart Home Technology

Smart-home technology and related services can reinforce a person’s experiential nature, promoting sustainable living among the elderly. It is crucial in the housing industry that support “Aging in Place”, contributing to the contact, control, and simulation of nature at home as well as the creation of a high-quality living space instead of mechanical achievement. Further, biophilic experience, the strengthening of inherent human propensity to nature for optimal health and well-being, supports the elderly’s physical, mental, and sociological health. However, despite the continuing emphasis on the benefits of residential nature experiences for the elderly, the application of smart-home technology and services is insufficient. This study presents a theoretical basis for combining biophilia and smart-home technology, providing a framework for smart-home services to ensure elderly residents can have biophilic experiences. In this study, smart-home components and related studies that can support the biophilic experience and the corresponding technology are analyzed. The results suggest the type and content of smart-home service for ensuring a biophilic experience, while also indicating the configuration of supportive input and output devices according to the service framework. Moreover, we recommend the interaction characteristics of smart-home devices from the perspective of residents, space, efficient service provision, and physical application. This paper broadens our understanding of the sustainable, residential-environment nature experience and informs the expansion of the aged-friendly smart-home industry, contributing to smart-home services trends and development.

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