Development of a Universal Design-Based Guide for Handrails: An Empirical Study for Hong Kong Elderly
| Autor: | Y. T. Tsang, Vivian W.Y. Tam, Ivan W. H. Fung, Leo Chan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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universal design guide
Architectural engineering Standardization Computer science Universal design media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 lcsh:Renewable energy sources risk-free handrail Management Monitoring Policy and Law barrier-free handrail elderly 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Empirical research Promotion (rank) Order (exchange) lcsh:Environmental sciences media_common lcsh:GE1-350 Scope (project management) Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants 030229 sport sciences Handrail lcsh:TD194-195 Hong Kong Inclusion (education) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 11, p 4233 (2018) Sustainability Volume 10 Issue 11 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | An important and basic strategy for facilitating the inclusion and daily life of elderly in accordance with those living in public rental housing buildings is to allow their circulation to be barrier-free and self-supported. Therefore, the provision of a handrail guide could improve their living standard. This paper develops a universal design guide for handrails focusing on the needs of elderly. Fifteen routes with mostly elderly were selected and targeted for evaluating the existing problems with handrail provision. Surveys and informal interviews with elderly, adults, and children were also conducted to further investigate their needs, their ease of existing facilities, and possible future implementation to improve their ease. From the survey results, it was found that most of the existing problems with handrail layouts exist within the community. In addition to standardizing, modifying, and suggesting the ideas on handrail design and layout, the promotion of the ideas from universal design was the emphasis on this investigation in order to make a barrier-free city into a barrier-free but universal community for a better international city. The guide focuses on the standardization of synthetization of the scope in terms of design and layout. Simultaneously, an advanced part of design also regards the improvement of technological, environmental, and self-support features to improve Hong Kong&rsquo s international friendliness with tailor-made ideas such as Elderlysteady. |
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