고령친화대학 도입을 위한 서울시 노인 복지시설의 유니버설 디자인 가이드라인에 관한 연구

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Several countries, including South Korea, which is about to enter a super-aged society, are establishing elderly-friendly infrastructure to cope with the aging problem. Among them, there is a possibility that aging-in-place and intergenerational exchanges for the elderly can be induced through ‘age-friendly universities’ based on local universities, which are socio-economic resources of the local community. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to research how to improve and utilize existing university facilities in an elderly-friendly way in terms of space through universal design guidelines for the introduction of age-friendly universities. Case study and literature review were conducted for this study. Through case analysis at internal and external senior-friendly universities, we examined how age-friendly universities are operated, and arrived at a lack of spatial research. The universal design guideline for welfare facilities in Seoul were analyzed, and common design elements were extracted around four spaces that can be applied to age-friendly universities; transition, learning, sanitary and rest space. When introducing age-friendly universities, safety and accessibility should be increased in consideration of wheelchair users and the weak walking, flexibility to use space in various ways, and comfortable and open space plans are needed to lead to communication between users. Therefore, when introducing an age-friendly university in the future, the elements should be applied to existing university buildings to utilize them as the safe and comfortable facilities for the elderly.