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      The relationship between housing accessibility and healthy aging: the case of Turkish elderly women

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      Author
      Afacan, Yasemin
      Editor
      Craddock, G.
      Doran, C.
      McNutt, L.
      Rice, D.
      Date
      2018
      Print ISSN
      0926-9630
      Publisher
      IOS Press
      Volume
      256
      Pages
      345 - 354
      Language
      English
      Type
      Book Chapter
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      Book Title
      Transforming our World Through Design, Diversity and Education
      Series
      Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
      Abstract
      This study proposed Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) as a tool to elicitate the requirements of elderly to age well and improve the accessibility of home environments. It aims to address the accessibility issues in a case housing environment and provide guidance and design recommendations to designers and architects, who generally have difficulty to obtain information on universally designed housing environments. First, healthy aging concept is introduced. Then, the role of housing accessibility in healthy aging is explored. Later, the methodology is presented. In the findings the importance and satisfaction ratings of 100 Turkish elderly women, which are selected from an exemplary housing environment of the most dense and busiest urban area in Ankara, are analysed. According to results, IPA could be an effective tool to decide how to meet accessibility requirements and maximize home satisfaction. Thus, this study contributes to the design literature by being a first study to explore the applicability of IPA technique in design discipline while eliciting elderly women expectations and accessibility requirements for healthy aging.
      Keywords
      Accessibility
      Elderly
      Home environments
      Importance-performance analysis (IPA)
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/50430
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      https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-923-2-345
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