RESIDENTS' INTERPERSONAL DISTANCES, DIRECTIONS OF THEIR GAZE AND OBJECTS IN THEIR SIGHT-A study on the behavior in group living for people with dementia-:—A study on the behavior in group living for people with dementia—

This is a study on residents' behavior focused on “interpersonal distances, directions of their gaze and objects in their sight” in group-living homes. The observational investigations at four facilities are carried out and it is found that the furniture settings in which residents can keep 0.6m to 1.0m face-to-face separation encourage conversations. Therefore preparing various environment settings is important because the comfortable interpersonal distances for conversation, dinner, work and other activities have different preferred separations.From the results of the field study, improvements in investigation method for future detail study have been proposed in this paper.