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A study on body temperature regulation and residential thermal environments of the elderly—I. whole country survey of residential thermal environment and evaluation methods: RTE-index

Authors:	Yoshikatsu Kawashima Yutaka Tochihara Shigeru Gotoh Yoshiki Uryu Masaichi Ohmori Yoriko Masuda Joseph Akira Yoshida Takashi Misawa Atsushi Satoh Masao Sugiura Hironobu kajii Tadakatsu Ohnaka Hirosi Takasaki Rumiko Kuji Tadashi Satoh Kazumasa Otaki Yasutaka Osada and Syukichi Matsuoka

Institution:	^a Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Tokiwadai 156, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240, Japan ^b The Institute of Public Health, Japan ^c Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo, Japan ^d Nihon University, Japan ^e Obayashi Corporation, Japan ^f Kinki University, Japan ^g Akita University, Japan ^h Syokei Women's College, Japan ⁱ Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, Japan ^j Nippon College of Physical Education, Japan

Abstract:	1. 1. As part of “research on environmental comfort,” that is, research which aims to make people's living environment more comfortable, we attempted to clarify the relation between the living environment of elderly people and physiological and psychological factors. We carried out a comprehensive study with a view to establishing comfort standards for the residential thermal environment, and for creating evaluation and control systems. 2. 2. The comfort of the living environment is closely related to the thermal environment and the temperature-regulation ability of the human body. This ability of the body to regulate temperature develops during childhood and recedes as the adult ages. 3. 3. We therefore carried out: (a) experiments on body-temperature regulation and on special characteristics of the body-temperature regulation of elderly people, (b) a nationwide survey of the actual residential thermal environments of elderly people and (c) a survey of the daily activities of elderly people, and how elderly people's physiological and psychological conditions change when they are engaged in these activities. 4. 4. As a result of these experiments and surveys, we were able to: (d) formulate standards for evaluation of the residential thermal environment and (e) numerically express the results of systematic evaluation of residential thermal environments of elderly people, by means of a RTE-index. Author Keywords: Elderly; residential thermal environment; thermal index; RTE-index; thermal standard; evaluation method

Keywords:	Elderly residential thermal environment thermal index RTE-index thermal standard evaluation method
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