An Empirical Study on the Environmental Behavior in the Public Space of Community Nursing Facilities: Case Study of Three Nursing Facilities in Xi'an.

It is of great significance to improve the activeness and comfort of the elderly in the community nursing facilities for the elderly to enhance their quality of life. Qualitative analysis method was used to extract and obtain five spatial environmental factors (spatial intensification, spatial accessibility, environmental comfort, spatial sense of place, and spatial attraction) that affect the leisure and entertainment behaviors of the elderly. Furthermore, the semi-structural observation method of environmental behavior was applied to investigate three community nursing facilities in Xi'an, and the strong correlation between five factors and the recreation behavior of the elderly was confirmed. Based on this, the design countermeasures of public space of community nursing facilities were proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]