FUNCTIONAL INTERIORS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS 4(2+2)

Lesson 26 : Planning and Directive Principles for Alternate Functional Interiors

Types of Alternate Functional Interiors

1. By sponsorships: these under fraternal lodges, religious groups, voluntary associations and private builders.
2. By locations: those is open country, those adjacent to a shopping center with its usual facilities and those is a community but at a distance from its services
3. By types of services: those with complete community facilities including medical care, those with partial services and those with few or no services aside from housing.
4. By type of provision for residents: those with life time right of the residence only, those with lifetime residence and those offering complete lifetime care.
5. By having design: these vary is many ways and include residence halls, detached apartments, single dwellings & multi type units.

Generally the aged / elderly prefer to remain in the same community where in which they spent there middle years in order to maintain ties with relatives, friends and organizations. Thus independent houses in residential areas are owned by people who are well enough to care for themselves, while old age homes are located in areas offering congregate arrangements for those who need supervision and assistance with daily activities of living. Sometimes the most suitable arrangement for housing the aged is some form of congregate living. Those people who do not want or are unable to live independently in their own houses obviously need group housing. In general, any home chosen by the aged should be located is centers easily accessible to them and to their family and friends, to transportation, religious places, shopping facilities, recreation and health facilities.