Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ACADEMIC RESEARCHES IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING PLANNING AND DESIGN, BABACAN H.,SOLDATOVIC T.,DELOBEGOVICDZANIC N,SALMAN,S., Editör, GECE KİTAPLIĞI YAYINEVİ, Ankara, ss.79-94, 2018
MEASURING THE SATISFACTION LEVEL OF THE
CIRCULATION ELEMENTS IN NURSING HOME GARDENS
Emine TARAKCİ EREN1
, Mustafa VAR2
, Sema MUMCU3
ABSTRACT
Nursing homes are social service organizations that protect, care and meet
the physical, social and psychological needs of elderly people aged 60 and over
in a peaceful environment and operate under the Republic of Turkey Ministry of
Family and Social Policies. Institutional care services are provided to protect and
maintain the physical and mental health of the elderly individuals, to make these
individuals comfortable, to improve their social relations and to facilitate a healthy,
peaceful and safe life for them. According to the provisions of the Regulation,
institutional care is aimed to provide care for the elderly aged 60 and over, who
are not confined to bed, who do not require continuous medical treatment and for
those who are able to meet their daily needs on their own (SSCPA, Social Services
and Child Protection Agency, 1985). The most critical approach in nursing homes
designed for the elderly is to provide elderly individuals the feeling of being “at
home” and to establish healthy indoor and outdoor environments that meet the
physiological, psychological and socio-economic needs of the elderly individuals.
Besides all the landscape elements in the gardens, the circulation elements should
therefore take into account the physiological and psychological needs of the elderly
individuals, so that these elements could be used comfortably. In this study, it was
aimed to determine the level of satisfaction of the residents of the seven nursing
homes in the Eastern Black Sea Region regarding the circulation elements in the
nursing home gardens.
Keywords: Nursing Home, Nursing Home Gardens, Circulation Elements,
Level of Satisfaction