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1. Senior Citizens Housing Environmental Technology Program
This technology project mainly focuses on housing environment planning, social housing en-
vironment design, senior citizens' environment law, and senior citizens' mobility and environment

research, from the perspective of the built environment and urban environment transformation, with
the environmental framework of the living circle, the urban, architectural and community living vision
of the senior citizens' society, and the construction of "senior citizens housing environment" as the

goal. The results of the implementation in 2021 are as follows:

(1) Completion of the reconstruction of urban unsafe and old buildings combined with housing space and
environment design, the introduction of care services into Senior Citizen's housing, principles of im-
proving the space and facilities of existing housing for Senior Citizens in aging at residences, design of

dementia care areas in residential long-term care institutions, strengthening the cognitive environment
of dementia community service bases, and smart (AI) holistic home care systems. In addition to social
housing, young and senior co-housing public environment supply and transformation, the United
States, Europe, Japan, and Taiwan social housing indoor facilities and equipment, and social welfare
services subsidiary facilities content law comparison is provided. The Senior Citizens housing-related

design regulations have been revised, Senior Citizens and low vision living area pathfinding AI prelim-
inary aid study and the feasibility study for an installation of a displacement machine for mobility im-
paired persons to get in and out of the car zone - a total of 11 cases.

(2) The research results of this program contributed to the amendment of Building Design and Construc-
tion Article 55 of Building Technical Regulations by Order No. 1100810939 dated July 19, 2021, to pro-
vide emergency lighting in the stairwells of each floor of the building for residential purposes. Each floor

above the second floor is equipped with automatic fire alarm equipment following the standards for fire
safety equipment in various premises or with residential fire alarms following the regulations for install-
ing residential fire alarms. Following the relevant regulations, the width of the entrance and exit of the

staircase on the refuge floor to the outside of the house shall be expanded to 75 centimeters or more.
(3) We participated in the workshop on big data in 2021. We reported on the topic of "Using big data

to improve the quality of living in aging residences and aging living environments", suggesting
ways to improve the quality of the living environment for both the elderly and the elderly disabled,
and received good feedback from the public.

(4) We have published the "Code on Barrier-free Accessibility in Buildings Guide," which has been
well received by the public and provided to government agencies for reference.

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