Open AccessUsefulness of the new layout at Center K: Comparative analysis of actual facility usage in the transition from a facility for children with motional disabilities to a medical‐type facility for children with disabilities
Author(s) -
Bae Minjung,
Takemiya Kenji,
Fujiwara Yuki
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
japan architectural review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-8876
DOI - 10.1002/2475-8876.12091
Subject(s) - skilled nursing facility , center (category theory) , unit (ring theory) , psychology , medicine , nursing , mathematics education , chemistry , crystallography
This study aimed to verify the usefulness of the new layout at Center K after its transition from a facility for children with motional disabilities to a medical‐type facility for children with disabilities. We performed field research at the center before and after the transition in 2015 and 2016 respectively. We investigated the following four aspects: (i) Children's attributes in both types of facility, (ii) Children's usage rate of locations by day (weekday vs weekend), season, and unit, (iii) Nurses’ and nursing teachers’ nursing actions and usage rate of locations, and (iv) Behavioral changes in children who were transferred from the old to the new facility.