ELECTRONIC ACCESSIBILITY ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST FOR IMPROVING THE HOME ENVIRONMENT OF HEALTHILY AGEING
Myllykangas, Pieta (2013)
Myllykangas, Pieta
Satakunnan ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013120419884
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013120419884
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The purpose of the thesis was to develop an accessibility checklist for assessing home environment of healthily ageing people. The checklist will be part of accessibility assessment computer program designed by Esteetön Asunto Oy (EAS oy). The checklist focuses on the minimum changes that needs to be done in elderly home so that the living is easy and safe.
The checklist was made by studying theory about ageing. The theory was about changes that happen in human body when ageing. These ageing changes affects on how the elderly is able to survive in ADL functions safely and without problems. In addition, also other accessibility assessment programs have been studied as much it was possible. Context of the checklist has been formed according to that theory which is presented in this Thesis-report.
The idea for the thesis came straight from the Esteetön Asunto Oy. The purpose was to design a checklist which could be used when assessing elderly homes so, that the ageing person could live in own home for longer. The checklist needed to have only the most important questions in it. The questions should have reliable theory behind them. By this the information got from the accessibility assessment would be true and can be used in practice.
The checklist has not yet been use in practice on the time of completing Thesis and it has not been changed in the form of the assessment program. All of the information concerning the list itself and its content is a commercial secret. Because of this the list is not published as a part of the thesis-report.
The checklist was made by studying theory about ageing. The theory was about changes that happen in human body when ageing. These ageing changes affects on how the elderly is able to survive in ADL functions safely and without problems. In addition, also other accessibility assessment programs have been studied as much it was possible. Context of the checklist has been formed according to that theory which is presented in this Thesis-report.
The idea for the thesis came straight from the Esteetön Asunto Oy. The purpose was to design a checklist which could be used when assessing elderly homes so, that the ageing person could live in own home for longer. The checklist needed to have only the most important questions in it. The questions should have reliable theory behind them. By this the information got from the accessibility assessment would be true and can be used in practice.
The checklist has not yet been use in practice on the time of completing Thesis and it has not been changed in the form of the assessment program. All of the information concerning the list itself and its content is a commercial secret. Because of this the list is not published as a part of the thesis-report.