A Study in Bedroom Living Environment Preferences of the Urban Elderly in China

This study aims to analyze the indoor environment preferences of Chinese urban elderly, create a living that is beneficial physical and mental health enhance their sense well-being. Based on an in-depth 306 elderly’s bedroom preference in 21 provinces, using questionnaire method, this concludes that: (1) Group characteristics: for key words color lighting are low saturation, bright, warm tones white light; personal characteristics such as gender, condition, education have strong correlation with factors environment; (2) Physical preferences: gender presents most significant potential effect elderly preferences; (3) Established indicator system: system includes five main indicators basic conditions, materials, colors, other soft furnishings, 22 sub-indicators. has some implications guiding design apartments environment, well effectively meet physiological psychological needs elderly.