A Study On The Elderly Social Behavior In The Public Space Of The Elderly Housing In Wuhan

Human's life span is extended more and more because of the success of medical science. The number of aged people constantly increased worldwide, the aging society has become serious problems in every country. The aging society raises the issue of the Supply and Need of Caring the Aged - a task that every country needs to face together.People can't live without society. The aged should spend rest of their lives in the society as well as they are encountering the metal changes, the physical changes, and the changes of the roles they have been used to, their fear of loneness is even worse than ordinary people's. As a result of being motivated by the right declaration of the aged people --"to encourage the social involvement of the aged", this study has undergone a deep investigation and research on the elderly housing today,Based on the concept of"behavior setting"learned form the environmental behavioral theory, this research has a thorough study on the elder's social behavior by analyzing an individual case and the inhabitants'actual behavior. How to build a social interactive space, which is appropriate for the aged, is a very important and urgent issue. In addition to exploring the problem and causes of the problem for the elder's social behavior, the objective of this research is to:1. Explore the contents and specialty of the elder's social behavior .By analyzing the individual case; this research is able to find out how they behave in the architect environment and in the social welfare institution. Furthermore, this research is to distinguish the characteristic of that setting and to categorize the elder's social behaviors2. This research is intended to decompose how their behavior is constructed by time and space, and to analyze by these two major components.3. The organization structure of the environment is consisted of by the connection of people to people, people to object, and object to object. Therefore, it is crucial to explore the relation between social behaviors and the objects surrounded.4. This research finally concludes the outcome of the analysis, with the expectation to understand the demand of elder people's social behavior, and propose substantial and influential recommendations as a consultation for space designer in the future.