The Role of Elderly- Special Garden as a Social Interaction Space for the Elderly Community  in Semarang City

Hetyorini, Andi Purnomo

2018

Abstract

Healthy living in old age is a dream for the elderly. This elderly health supports the increasing life expectancy of Indonesian people. The success of the current development can be seen by the increase in life expectancy that has an impact on the increasing number of elderly people. Indonesia belongs to an old structured country because the elderly population reaches more than 7% (who provisions) of the total population. Central java ranks third of the five provinces in Indonesia with the largest number of elderly, but currently does not have a park specifically for the elderly and does not have an elderly regional regulation. This fact is quite ironic because the elderly people actually have the same rights as other citizens in the use of public open space. Thus the role of public open space for the elderly will be very supportive in the process of improving health quality. The elderly need interaction with the public, in this case the elderly need for social interaction space in the form of public space that is an elderly park. This study aims to create integration between geriatric science and architecture in the planning of elderly parks and develop criteria for planning elderly gardens. The method used is qualitative where to search data by means of purposive sampling and sampling area. The findings of this study are in the form of an elderly garden planning criteria that can be used as a basis for the preparation of the elderly regulation. By providing a special room for the elderly, it is hoped that it will improve the quality of life of the elderly and make Semarang city an elderly friendly city.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hetyorini. and Purnomo A. (2018). The Role of Elderly- Special Garden as a Social Interaction Space for the Elderly Community  in Semarang City.In Proceedings of the 7th Engineering International Conference on Education, Concept and Application on Green Technology - Volume 1: EIC, ISBN 978-989-758-411-4, pages 190-194. DOI: 10.5220/0009008301900194

in Bibtex Style

@conference{eic18,
author={Hetyorini and Andi Purnomo},
title={The Role of Elderly- Special Garden as a Social Interaction Space for the Elderly Community  in Semarang City},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th Engineering International Conference on Education, Concept and Application on Green Technology - Volume 1: EIC,},
year={2018},
pages={190-194},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009008301900194},
isbn={978-989-758-411-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th Engineering International Conference on Education, Concept and Application on Green Technology - Volume 1: EIC,
TI - The Role of Elderly- Special Garden as a Social Interaction Space for the Elderly Community  in Semarang City
SN - 978-989-758-411-4
AU - Hetyorini.
AU - Purnomo A.
PY - 2018
SP - 190
EP - 194
DO - 10.5220/0009008301900194