title: Architecture for the silver generation: exploring the meaning of appropriate space for ageing in a Swedish municipality.
abstract: This paper focuses on an architecture competition for the silver generation, namely those aged 65 years and older. Twenty-seven Swedish informants were interviewed using an interviewing guide that included a photographic survey. The informants emphasised aesthetic dimensions in architecture for the prolongation of ageing in place and independent living in a residential home. This study highlights the individual adjustment of space, and the integrated location in existing urban settings near nature. Based on the findings, a habitational model for exploring the appropriate space for ageing is formulated. It suggests that architecture through location and spatial features needs to generate positive associations with the users.
authors.affiliation: The School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. jonas.andersson@arch.kth.se
authors.forename: Jonas E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Andersson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001108:Architecture; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013548:Sweden