Daily life, anthropometry and bedroom design of Indonesian elderly

Indonesia elders have a choice to stay in residential or live in a nursing home. Effort should be invested to maintain the elderly well-being despite their lives choice. The purpose of this study is to observe Indonesian elderly who live in residential (either lives independently or with families) a...

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Autores: Rahmawati, Novia, Widyanti, Ari, Jiang, Bernard C.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/335380
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/335380
https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17411/jacces.v10i1.217
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Product design
Beds
Older people
Anthropometry
Bedroom design
Daily life
Elderly
Disseny de producte
Llits
Persones grans
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Arquitectura::Disseny::Disseny industrial
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Sumario:Indonesia elders have a choice to stay in residential or live in a nursing home. Effort should be invested to maintain the elderly well-being despite their lives choice. The purpose of this study is to observe Indonesian elderly who live in residential (either lives independently or with families) and nursing home. In addition, this study also describes the anthropometry of Indonesian elderly, in particular in relation to bedroom design for elderly. One hundred and three Indonesian elderly were involved in this study (mean age = 74.4 years, SD= 8.98 year, 82 female). A total of 15 anthropometry body dimensions are measured based on their relevance to the elder’s bedroom design. Results show different activities among Indonesian elders based on their dependencies. The bedroom design for Indonesian elderly is proposed.