GRIHA: ELDERLY HOME AND DAY CARE CENTRE

Abstract

Aging is the natural phenomena. When one is born, they ultimately continue to grow and mature. When a person achieves the pinnacle of maturity, they become old. In the present context, with the advancement of technology and medicine, the life expectancy of the people is increasing day by day parallelly declining in fertility rate and death rate with accelerating migration of young people causing aged people to consider old age home as the place to secure their later life and day care centre to spend their day. Therefore, further analysis was carried out through research and study on the status of aged people and old age home, along with the environment that they seek. In Addition, Nepal has a very small number of old age homes that provide the environment and amenities that the elderly need. As a result, the relevance of the old age home and day care centre was understood in conjunction with the literature analysis and case study, and the program was developed with consideration for the built, natural, and social environments along with site and its surrounding.