A Study on Housing Management in Old Age in the Age of 100 Years of Life

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K02334
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08030:Family and consumer sciences, and culture and living-related
• Research Institution: Kyoto Notre Dame University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Kumi 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 現代人間学部, 教授 (80240860)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 住居管理 / 超高齢期 / 住宅維持管理 / 住み替え / 生活財 / 住生活

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A questionnaire survey was conducted targeting mature suburban residential areas, and 340 valid samples were analyzed. More than half of the households live with only elderly people, and many of them are over 30 years old, and they live with problems such as anxiety about earthquake resistance and durability, and inconvenience of steps. It is expected that households that have entered the latter-stage elderly without preparations for a longer lifespan will find it difficult to live in the extended old age, and the problem of how to deal with the remaining housing.
For the latter-stage elderly who do not actively choose housing for the super-elderly period and live with many things in a housing that is not sufficiently maintained and managed, apart from helping children's households, There is a need for a local system to provide consultation and support regarding the treatment of the elderly.

Free Research Field

建築計画、住生活学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

高齢期に入ってからの30年の居住生活を考えたとき、ほとんどの高齢者が住み慣れた我が家に継続して暮らすことを望んでいるが、そのための維持管理は十分とはいえない。また暮らしを実質化する生活財も長年の暮らしに蓄積され、居住性や安全性に支障をきたしている状況がある。住空間の選択と住宅維持管理、および生活財管理は、人生100年時代を迎えた日本では、高齢期の安定的な居住生活にとって最重要事項といえる。同時に住宅とその中の諸々のモノを含めた生活環境をまるごと引き継ぐ次世代のためにも、さらにはその住まいを抱える地域にとっても無視できない事であり、その問題を総括的に取り上げる本研究の意義は大きい。