Studies Of The Lighting Environment Of The Interior For The Elderly

Under the background that China is going to step into the elderly society soon, the paper starts with the principle"Lighting for People"and"building a harmonious society", through the investigations and researches on the inner lighting environment for the elderly, brings up the requirements of design of the lighting environment for the elderly, as well as the recommendations numerical value of the lighting environment for the elderly in the ordinary life. Besides, the paper chooses the topic of"Studies on the Reading Lighting Environment for the Elderly"to do the experiments and studies, which is a branch of the main topic, in order to start the exploration, and to explore deeper and further.When people become old, the physical function and the psychological condition will change a lot, so their requirements for the lighting environment are different from the majority of the people. However, the current lighting design and the current recommendations numerical value of the lighting environment are all for the majority, not suitable for the elderly. China will be the elderly-style country in the near future. The ratio of the old people will goes up, so it is necessary and urgent to pay enough attention to the topic of the lighting environment for the elderly.The paper is based on the subjects of lighting, architecture, tone, sociology, demographics, environment science, illumination, through the researches on vision of the elderly, the psychology of the elderly, the activity of the elderly and so on, through contrast of the achievements of the foreign countries and inner country, and also the large scale investigations and experiments, gains many valuable first-hand materials. In addition, through expounding the current situation as well as the development trends, the paper makes an analysis of the relationship of the lighting environment of the interior for the elderly and the activity as well as psychology characteristics. The paper finishes the experiment of"Reading Lighting Environment for the Elderly", through the analysis of SPSS, arrives at the conclusion of the most influential factor of the reading activity for the elderly. Then through the analysis, it brings up the recommendations numerical value of the lighting environment is for the elderly especially in the places of residence, old people'home, hospital, the activity places for the old people, the reading room for the old people in the library and so on, in order to set the reference for the relate areas.