Objectives Disregarding the quality of nursing homes can affect the mental health of older people living there. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the designing and architecture of nursing homes with the residents’ mental health. Methods & Materials This research was descriptive-correlational. With purposeful sampling, we selected 158 elderly residents of the nursing homes ...

BACKGROUND Since Germany re-unified in 1990, substantial social and economic changes have happened in East Germany, the former socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of these socio-economic changes in East Germany on the association between social status, measured by parental educational level, and health-related living conditions of c...

Study objectives: To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people’s living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for different age and socioeconomic groups. Furthermore, it is analysed separately for urban and more rural areas, because the strength of the relation was expected to vary with urbanity. Design: The study in...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people's living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for different age and socioeconomic groups. Furthermore, it is analysed separately for urban and more rural areas, because the strength of the relation was expected to vary with urbanity. DESIGN The study in...

Cities are the main carriers of high population agglomeration and socio-economic activities also areas where contradictions among production, living, ecological space concentrated. Effective identification production–living–ecological is conducive to balanced sustainable development urban space. First, this paper analyzes formation mechanism connotation constructs classification system point-of...

We have developed a computational model of the process of describing the layout of an apartment or house, a much-studied discourse task first character ized linguistically by Linde (1974). The model is embodied in a program, APT, that can reproduce segments of actual tape-recorded descriptions, using organizational and discourse strategies derived through analysis of our

Today, the research field of assisted living technologies is becoming more and more important. In this paper, an intelligent space framework is going to be presented which can be applied as a framework for assisted living. There are two beneficial properties which can improve the performance of the presented framework. The first is the use of semantic information which increases the flexibility...