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Abstract As China enters the aging society, the old-age care problems have grown increasingly serious. Influenced by the only-child policy, traditional old-age support system fails to adapt to new social situation, the institutions have become major subjects in the future old-age support system. Researches on the elderly-fit architectural design have achieved many fruits, but those on the landscape design of the elderly community has been less reported. This paper studied landscape design of the old-age support institutions from the perspective of both theory and practice, and tried to explore the spatial layout of environmental landscapes in the elderly community. On the basis of sorting out specific psychological needs of the elderly group in China and their needs for the layout of landscape spaces, this paper proposed some effective solutions in view of successful elderly communities in overseas countries, then analyzed the development of elderly communities in China, so as to figure out landscape design approaches capable of promoting physical and mental health of the elderly group in the old-age support institutions.
Keywords Elderly community, Landscape design. Spatial layout
Ageing of population has become or will be a serious problem in many countries. China as the most populous country of the world has entered the ageing society since 2003 formally, according to the specifications of the United Nations, and the elders above 60 years in China achieved 200,000,000. The current ageing problems in China will lead to great changes of the old-age support concepts and models, and the eldedy group's needs for economic support, health care, living support and psychological health have grown gradually, thus landscape design of the elderly community should take their behavior charactenstics into consideration, and adopt corresponding strategies to meet environmental needs of the seniors in different levels.
1 General situation of elderly community
Elderly community refers to living spaces specially built for the seniors with sound living facilities, improving public supporting facilities, and modem characteristics[1]. It is a new setdement type and lifestyle of the seniors, owns vanous secunty and service facilities such as post office, supermarket, nursing agency, and bank diat scattered families do not have, and also warm family-like atmosphere that common nursing agencies do not have. Compared with common residential areas, the elderly communities show the...