A study on limitations and improvement directions of Senior Housing Welfare Policy : focusing on Seoul Apartments

As the baby boomer generation ages and we enter a super-aged society, concerns about the housing stability and safety of middle-class seniors are spreading throughout society. Accordingly this study aims to diagnose the limitations of the housing welfare policy for the elderly and seek ways to improve it, thereby suggesting the future direction for housing welfare for middle-class elderly people, and to reexamine the role of design in establishing policy-based senior-friendly design standards. To this end, as a result of examining the domestic laws, systems, and policies related to housing welfare for the elderly, it is generally believed that the housing welfare for the middle-class elderly, who make up the majority, is currently in a blind spot and will not be easily resolved in the future. This is the limitation of the domestic housing welfare policy for the elderly that should be noted. To overcome this, policy incentives are needed to increase interest in senior-friendly housing. As part of the solution, we examined relevant laws and systems in Seoul to find ways to encourage the application of senior-friendly design standards in the Seoul apartment private market, which is leading the domestic housing trend. As a result, if the nature of the ‘care’ item recently added to the ‘apartment allowable floor area ratio incentive’ system, which is one of the district unit establishment and operation standards in the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s urban environment improvement project promotion procedure, can be expanded and adjusted, it is believed that senior-friendly design standards can be incorporated there.