Adaptation means to adapt to middle-aged and elderly people. Generally, it refers to the aging adaptation in the construction design, construction of public **** facilities (shopping centers, hospitals, schools, etc.), and decoration of the living environment.
China is gradually entering an elderly society, new facilities, public **** building should give priority to the physical function of the elderly and the characteristics of action to make the appropriate design.
Adaptive transformation solution, because many old buildings, old facilities built without much consideration for the elderly, now to adapt to the habits of the elderly, can only be adapted to the facilities of the renovation and upgrading, such a process referred to as adaptive transformation.
Adapted to the aging of the project can be divided into medical, nursing care, health prevention field.
Medical aspects include: hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, rehabilitation medical centers, medical building interior design;
Medical building interior design: mainly involved in hospitals, community clinics, nursing homes, building interior design, including outpatient clinics, examination rooms, operating rooms and wards of the interior design.
The interior design for senior care includes: care-oriented senior care institutions, community-embedded small-scale senior care institutions, community stations, day-care centers, home-based services, healthy and energetic senior communities, CCRC-type senior apartments, and one-stop senior care service communities, and so on.
It is the view of the senior citizen platform that no matter how big or small the design is, it is fundamental to focus on the needs of the elderly.