Eiji Satoh

ANALYSIS OF THE TRENDS OF HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ATTENDANT SERVICE AND RESIDENCE MODEL

Dwellings for the elderly may be classified into three types: ones own home, housing for the elderly, and nursing home, in which the housing for the elderly are said to be least developed. However, looking ahead, it is expected that the number of people who move to housing for the elderly will grow resulting from the increase in elderly population and the change in household composition. The object of this study is to obtain insight into high quality housing for the elderly. On that purpose, analyses were conducted using the following two methods:1. Understanding of the nation-wide quantity of developed housing for the elderly,2. Analysis of the trends of development of housing for the elderly from the perspective of architectural characteristics, user identification and attendant circumstances of relative services.

A REPORT OF THE KINDERGARTEN USERS’ ASPECTS OF WORKING AND THEIR NEEDS FOR CHILD-CARE

This paper reports on the kindergarten user’s aspects of working and their needs for child-care based on the result of questionnaire survey at Tama-City, Tokyo. We broke users’ condition and conation of working (working types) and their consideration of working and social child-care from their children’s young age (consideration types) down into patterns. And guardians’ consideration to working and nurturing, the selection reason for the kindergarten, needs for social child-care, and the working conditions of double-income guardians were understood. As a result, it was pointed out that there was the necessity of social child-care or “Child-nurturing support” in the wide sense including the working style etc. to the kindergarten users that had been thought that “Child care” needs were few.

THE EVALUATION AND USAGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT BY PARENTS ON PERIOD OF CHILD CARE IN TAMA NEW TOWN, JAPAN

In the modern society, the rate of declining birthrate and growing proportion of elderly people has increased; therefore, a policy that is considerate of children, the elderly people, and handicapped people is necessary in terms of resolving the problem. Recently, they are almost isolated from the aspect of living environment and welfare in Japan.From these circumstances, resources of nursing environment for revitalization of living environment and local environment where parents would prefer to raise their children are needed to be reconsidered.This study has written based on making a comparison on how each city is evaluated as a child care environment. Therefore, both user and nonuser parents of nursery schools and kindergartens with daycare services as well as other nursery services are the main target in this study. Through the researches, an attempt to examine a child care in a supportive environment for parents from the unified viewpoint on city, work, and child care has been made.