This graduation project focusses on designing a living environment that fits the needs and demands of the elderly nowadays, and the changed healthcare policy in the Netherlands. A more in depth research is done in one of the main problems elderly are currently facing; loneliness. The outcome of this research resulted in multiple designtools which should be implemented in every housing project for elderly, to decrease the feeling of loneliness. The end result of the project is a living environment, based on the designtools, in which elderly can still execute their daily activities and easily come across others to prevent elderly from feeling lonely.