Vivienda ideal para el adulto mayor : cómo una tabla antropométrica específica para adultos mayores puede ayudar al diseño de espacios residenciales

摘要

The main objective of this study was to generate an anthropometric table for the elderly population in Quito. With the purpose of designing residential spaces within a housing. However, in Ecuador there is not an anthropometric table, in addition to scarce anthropometric studies that allow the design of residential spaces according to the measures of the elderly Ecuadorian population. Researches that carried out in different countries show that the correct design of a home increases a person`s life quality of the third age. According to the above-mentioned 19 anthropometric measures were obtained from 384 men and 387 women, the measuring were made in the centers of the program 60 y Piquito of the Zona Eloy Alfaro and Zona los Chillos del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ). A statistical analysis has been developed, dividing the ample of 771 people in four five-year groups according to their ages from the age of 65 until the age of 85, to determine whether there were statistical differences in each age group. Subsequently anthropometric table has been generated for each gender and an analysis of combined populations has been done. Finally two residential paces, the bathroom and the kitchen of a home have been designed using the anthropometric table which has been generated with the percentiles and the appropriate measures for the elderly population of Quito.