Research on Design of Elderly Care Space in Suzhou Xiyuan Based on Elderly-Oriented Concepts

Based on emotional demand orientation, investigation and research related to nursing institutions in the Gusu area of Suzhou was conducted. Taking the case of Xiyuan Nursing Care Home to conduct a speculative discussion, based on the cultural and architectural characteristics of the old city,the needs, behavior characteristics,and so on of the elderly were summarized, the advices of improving space adaptability for the elderly were proposed. Finally,according to the common and existing problems of nursing institutions, such as closed management, single levels of space, insufficient privacy and lack of "social sense of life", and aging of facilities and equiments,ect., the five corresponding improvement advices for elderly-oriented design were presented to provide more reasonable and comfortable spatial arrangement methods and design concepts to nursing space institutions and to meet the demands of the elderly for high quality life.