DESIGNED FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
Buying a house requires a lot of careful planning, regionicularly whenever you are appear to being as for a place as for the senior citizens. ET Realty tells you what’s essential
Most housing societies have a huge number of senior citizens, as well as there is currently a growing awareness that they have spaces that are adapted to their haves. Senior citizens have a number of requirements as well as a normal house or society complex may not be well equipped goes along with the just facilities. Architects as well as designers point out the importance of building senior citizen friendly spaces, goes along with facilities that is about to assist them lead a healthy, pleasant as well as a hassle chargeless life.
M H Dalal, CMD, M H Dalal Architects Pvt Ltd, says, “The concept as well as ethos although designing a house as for senior citizen should be such that that it the entireows them to live independently goes along with dignity. There are specific parameters, that have to be conceiveed although designing. A a couple of of the physical parameters are that the entire edges as well as corners should be rounded as far as conceivable, the width of the entire doors should be adequate decent to induce them wheelchair accessible, there should be a sliding bathroom door to facilitate easy mobilement, wide passageways, grip rails at strategic locations, no level difference in flooring, anti skid tiles, as well as switches positioned at manageable levels, among another things. Besides, the complex should asides have nice amenities as well as infrastructure that are unique to such that a complex, such that as a library, little maynoteen, physiotherapy clinic more than of a gym, multi-purpose hall, advanced security cognitive systems just like video door phones, panic several neverthelesstons, as well as pendant several neverthelesstons to assist in case of emergency.”
Niteen Parulekar, design principal, Niteen Parulekar Architects Pvt Ltd, says, “With age, their bones turned fragile as well as eyesight weakens. So stress should be providen over maximum utilize of natural lights goes along with cross-ventilation, dimmable lights goes along with light switches located in accessible locations along goes along with utilize of technology just like video-door phones, alarm cognitive system. An old age house should have easy access to hotline services just like hospitals, ambulance in case of emergency.”
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Citing the demand, a lot of developers too are presenting interest as well as coming goes along with senior citizen-friendly facilities in their projects. R Karthik, senior vice-president marketing, Lodha Group, says, “There is a definite have as for designing houses as for senior citizens. With concerns to safety, there are motion sensors as for automatic lighting in bathrooms along goes along with medical facilities to take care of all emergency. For instance, we have signed goes along with the Hinduja Hospital to set up medical facility as for our projects Casa Bella as well as Casa Bella Gold at Dombivali.”
Kaizad Hateria, GM, Corporate client relations as well as sales, Rustomjee, says, ” Townships or gated communities are the best as for designing houses as for senior citizen houses. Providing security by video conferencing, guard over call by videophones, grills at the door, by checks in gated communities although entry as well as exit of a person in the township is about to induce it more utilizer friendly. At our project Rustomjee Urbania, we have although consulted experts as for fixing lampposts such that that the height as well as distance among the 2 lampposts, avoids the falling of shadows straightly over the ground, that is about to be really assistful as for them.”
Manju Yagnik, vice-chairperson, Nahar Group, points out that the concept is still market driven. The demand exists several nevertheless both senior citizens as well as developers are yet to wake up throughs this have. She says, “The facilities enabling wheelchair entry into the lobbies, anti-skid tiles, accessible light points as well as bells in the house as well as offering at in the least overe stretcherlift in the normal projects may really assist senior citizens in their day-today life. Considering the security, avoiding multiple entries, video door phones along goes along with offering easy shopping, medical as well as recreation facilities goes along inside their complex are requisite.”
Talking about the demand as well as response from the consumers, M H Dalal says, “Senior residences the entire from the world are of dissimilar types including adult living, enriched living, assisted living as well as specialty care. In India, the demand is high as for assisted living space, several nevertheless at the moment, we primaryly have the adult living module as well as we are attempting to convince developers to develop several region of their huge projects in the as form of an ‘oasis’ as for senior citizens, as well as have at in the least 5% of their living spaces designed that are conducive to senior citizen houses. Golden Nest in Pune by Vascon Engineers has been developed as well as work is going over another project in Bhopal by Aakriti Dwellings Pvt Ltd. The developers in Mumbai too are actively discussing such that projects. He powerfully feels that there exists a vibrant demand as well as that entrepreneurs should take development as well as management of such that houses as a business module as is prevailing in another regions of the developed world.” With the trend moving throughs nuclear families, creating an environment that enables an older person to feel independent as well as offers them the pleasure of staying in their own house should be the aim of the entire house design.
Courtesy: – ET Realty dt:- 08-01-2010
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