Growing old independently in a cohesive environment
R. Sondermeijer (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
B. Jurgenhake – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
S.M.A. Sedighi – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Housing Institutions & Governance)
P.L. Tomesen – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Building Product Innovation)
M.G.H. Schoonderbeek – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
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Abstract
This graduation research focuses on discovering new ways of housing the elderly that fits the changed elderly healthcare policy in the Netherlands. It explores ways how to embed them into a neighborhood in which they can rely on support from their neighbors in order to keep them longer at home independently. This has been done by creating a social and cohesive environment on one hand, and providing them with an adaptive building on the other that can react to changing healthcare demands.