서울시 경로당의 유니버설디자인 적용 현황에 관한 연구

Abstract

(Background and Purpose) The need for the universal design is rising among others as everyone needs the safe and convenient circumstances universally. Although the necessary political activities and system are expanding with the rapidly aging society, the physical and emotional changes of the aged, who are switching over from the mature stage to old stage, are not reflected well. The universal design has not been adapted to the sufficiently. There are not many researches or analyses available assessing how effectively the already published guidelines and manuals have been applied. Therefore this study aims to prove the need for the application of the universal design to Community Center for the Elderly and draw the opinions of the actual users as the Evaluation Index to provide the database to establish the range of the universal design application and orientation further. (Method) First, the concept and range of the universal design and its application to Community Center for the Elderly and the Senior Citizens were considered theoretically through the review of the literatures. Second, the field investigation was done using ‘Seoul Guidebook for the Universal Design for Senior Community Centers Ver. 1 (2020)’ and also the survey on the applicability was done among the aged users of the centers. Then we could draw the priority application area of the universal design. (Result) It was proved though the analysis of the situation that the universal design has not been applied to the Community Center for the Elderly sufficiently. Some safety parts were not applicable due to the structural limitation especially. There were considerable discrepancies between the evaluation standard and the opinions of the actual users in terms of the applicability related to the safety. It is expected that the universal design could be applied to Community Center for the Elderly efficiently once the evaluation standard of the design could be reset through the further studies on the evaluation standard and the actual usability. (Conclusion) It is required to subdivide the application of the universal design to the senior center according to the different age groups and the degrees of their physical health. The subdivided evaluation standard of the universal design will serve to build the higher applicability and satisfactory in hyper-elderly society. This study researched the applicability of the universal design to the senior centers through the investigation on the actual state of the universal design application of tCommunity Center for the Elderly and the priority needs of the users. This study could be utilized as the base data to apply the universal design to Community Center for the Elderly efficiently.