高齢者施設における音環境について : -サウンドスケープの観点から-

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The concept of soundscape was proposed by Murray Schafer in 1977. In the domains ofenvironmental education and architectural design, this concept is recognized as a significanttool to evaluate the quality of the environment. From the viewpoint of soundscape, this studyanalyzed the auditory environment of a care home for elderly people and compared it to thatof an elderly person's private home. In the care home, natural sound factors (ex. bird songs)were less counted, and artificial and forced sound factors (ex. noises made by careworkers,BGM) were more counted than the home. Replaying CDs that included sounds recorded innatural environments seemed to draw responses from the elderly people at the care home.The netural sounds reminded them of the time they had spent in their own homes andgardens. All the residents of the care home fondly remembered their past lives spent at theirhomes, and one of them even wrote a Haiku (Jpanese poetry). Based on these results, weproposed that the residential environment of care homes should be improved from theviewpoint of soundscape as well in order to promote quality life.
近畿医療福祉大学の論文
2006-06-15