Indoor Environmental Quality in Residential Care Facilities: A Scoping Review with Design Focus

Abstract

Elderly adults experience physical and cognitive deterioration, which makes them more dependent on others for their daily needs. It is not always possible to provide adequate care in their own homes, emphasizing the crucial need for qualified residential care facilities (RCFs). Given that elderly spend most of their time indoors, it's crucial to provide a good indoor environment quality (IEQ) at RCF. Using the PRISMA scoping review approach, this study seeks to review the body of knowledge about IEQ elements of RCFs. A keyword search yielded 1044 possible papers; however, after removing irrelevant articles and duplications, only 94 papers remained to be reviewed. A snowball search was used to add 32 papers, and finally 126 papers were included in this paper.

Keywords

• yaşlılar için tasarım
• yaşlı bakım
• iç mekân çevre konforu
• iç mekân çevre kalitesi
• yaşlı kurumsal bakım alanları
• design for elderly
• elderly care
• indoor environmental comfort
• indoor environmental quality
• residential care facility