Use and Usability of Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly. An observation study in Gothenburg Sweden.
Journal article, 2011
To meet the demographic development, measures were initiated by the Swedish government entailing changed conditions for municipal eldercare, such as assisted living. Participant observation is used to study the daily use of common spaces in 14 assisted living units in Gothenburg. The results show examples where the current
use diverges from the intended use and suggest diverging objectives and conflicts of use. The observations indicate that the degree of usability is determined by the physical environment itself in some cases, by the users and by changes in use in other cases, and by a combination of both in some cases.
satisfaction
aging population
flexibility
assisted living
effectiveness
accessibility
participant observation
efficiency
functionality
usability
Author
Morgan Andersson
Chalmers, Architecture
Göran Lindahl
Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Construction Management
Inga Malmqvist
Chalmers, Architecture
Journal of Housing for the Elderly
0276-3893 (ISSN) 1540353x (eISSN)
Vol. 25 4 380-400Areas of Advance
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Subject Categories
Civil Engineering
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
DOI
10.1080/02763893.2011.621860