| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 土地管理與開發研究所(在職專班) === 94 === Abstract
With the global increase of elderly population, many countries have noticed the urgent issue of settling and nursing the elderly. However, citizens have been emphasizing the concepts of attaching and eventually returning to one’s native land. Therefore, even though our society has transformed an argiculture one to a highly-industrial one, many values and life preferences of the elderly are still affected by the traditional culture. As a result, a considerate portion of the elder population chooses to stay at home or a familiar community to enjoy their old ages. Many researches and literatures show that the majority of the elderly believe family and community are the best places for enjoying one’s old age. Thus, in order to make the elderly able to enjoy their old ages, it is important to take the elderly’s living needs into consideration while designing common communities.
Most of the residents in the old military family dependent villages are honored veterans, and therefore constitute a high proportion of the population over the age of 65 in the population-age construction. In light of the construction of elderly population, the Ministry of National Defense has clearly stipulated in the Family Dependent Villages Rebuild Project that the Act of Rebuilding Old Military Family Dependent Villages is processed in a multiple and versatile way as well as follows the designing principles the meet the needs such as residents’ opinions, a friendly environment and convenient facilities for the elderly and the handicapped. In accordance with mentioned above, this study focused on “Gen Gwo New Town”, a community rebuilt from a family dependent village in Cha-yi City, and assessed as well as inquired the community residents over the age of 65 about their needs and satisfaction towards the residential environment in the hopes of understanding the needs of substantial and unsubstantial facilities of the rebuilt communities in elderly’s viewpoint via questionnaire. Through Descriptive Statistics, One Wav ANOVA, t Test, and Chi-Square Test, this study concluded the follows:
1. The preference for the needs of general community environment facilities, in the aspect of “indoor public facilities”, the first one is medical room, the second ones are shopping center and post office, the third ones are facilities for the purposes of recreation and liaison such as recreation room, library, etc.; in the aspect of “outdoor public facilities”, the main preference lies on facilities such as pavilions, parks, walking paths, seats, etc.; in the aspect of “residential space”, the main need for indoor space is in living room and bedroom, while the main need for indoor space dimension shows a highest proportion in 99-square-meter (30 pings) house models; in the aspect of building floors, mostly preferred is second to third floor, then fourth to fifth floor.
2. As to the emphasis towards the ten factors accessing the general community environment, the first three factors are the control of public nuisance, safety maintenance, and neighbor relationship. The rest are management service, medical facilities and service, environmental beautification, barrier-free space, traffic system, public facility, and indoor space. While as to the priority of the ten factors accessing the general community environment needed to be improved, the first three are medical service, neighbor relationship, and barrier-free facilities. The rest are environmental beautification, safety maintenance, management service, community and the peripheral public facilities, traffic system, the control of public nuisance, and indoor space.
3. The elderly in the family dependent villages have the highest satisfaction towards the factor of neighbor relationship in the ten factors accessing the environment of the old family dependent village, while have the lowest satisfaction towards the factor of condition of the house. The elderly in “Gen Gwo New Town” have the highest satisfaction towards the factor of the control of public nuisance, while have the lowest satisfaction towards the factor of barrier-free facilities.
4. The elderly have the average highest satisfaction towards the factors of the control of public nuisance as well as the environmental beautification which are categorized as the index of health. Other factors which are considered as affirmative by the elderly are indoor space, the neighbor relationship, and management service, while the rest factors are considered negative.
5. Through the empirical study, the conclusions of the three research hypotheses established in accordance with the research purpose are as follows:
(1). The comprising factors of emphasis towards the quality of community environment differ from the elderly’s individual characters.
(2). The feature of community housing and the satisfaction of the assessment system towards the quality of community environment are obviously correlated.
(3). The satisfaction of the assessment system towards the quality of community environment differs from the community elderly’s individual characters.
Key words and phrases: the elderly, reconstruction of family dependent villages, living environment, environmental needs, satisfaction
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