Thermal waves have killed more Australians than road traffic incidents, fires, floods and all other natural disasters combined. But not so long ago, studies have shown that in some parts of Australia extreme cold causes excitement, our hottest summer in the situation shows a higher death rate from the steam room. Record thermal waves isolated the destructive effect of thermal stress. Clearly, this is a serious social health task.

In the course of studies, the risk of extreme steam events and not very favorable results for old people was widely discussed. It is worth noting that there is not enough interest in the role of urban greenery in reducing thermal stress for old people.

Old people are all the more at risk of thermal stress. Previously, former medical circumstances and limited mobility increase their vulnerability. Mortality of old people increases during extreme steam.

The physiological characteristics of urban areas create the capacity of old people to get involved in almost all forms of work in hot weather. These include vegetation size and coverage, thermal design, and shading levels in social spaces and walkways. Growing urban greenery has the ability to freeze one of the methods of increasing the comfort and social skills of old people.

Aging assigns special importance to the greening

It is assumed that by 2050 20% of the large population will be over 60 years old. For Australia, this figure is even higher - 23%. This means, in fact, that by 2050, about any 4th Australian will be more vulnerable to extreme steam.

Climate change has the ability to worsen the problem, triggering more extreme the advent of the steam room.

The planning of our urban centres to please the necessities of the population urgently. The Central space on this agenda should be borrowed from the greening of human settlements in order to reduce their vulnerability to thermal stress. It still has the ability to improve people's quality of life, reduce social isolation and loneliness, and ease the burden on health systems.

It is considered necessary to harmonize the structure of communities with the needs of an ageing population. The living space of old people and the quality of their territory have a powerful impact on their life skills. However, not so long ago, the studies have proven that the skill of old people is often not provided in the research work on the design of neighborhoods.

How about nursing the elderly?
People face the election of a living space as they age. The joint elections in the "age" or defect to the care of the old.

Aging in space connects the accommodation in individual housing or sharing accommodation with relatives or friends. Within 90% of Australian seniors choose this option while others elect for seniors.

In the event that any 10 Australian elderly people live in care facilities for the old, it is clear that they are required to be designed to minimize thermal stress. Not only is it great for residents; it also has the ability to deliver benefits to operators by reducing health and electricity costs.

But these facilities are purposely built for old people, almost everything in Australia was built more than 10 years back when thermal stress wasn't such a tremendous task. At the moment is based and will be built a large number of objects. However, it is not clear whether they are developed actively to reduce the influence of heat.

Actually, what did our research notice?

Not so long ago, we conducted a focus group to study this issue. It has acquired the role of adult heads of 4 large corporate care institutions in Australia. We studied if and how suppliers are trying to transfer the minimum number of heat stress with the support of the design. We were still eager to understand the prerequisites to support these layouts for design.

A number of members have announced repairs that they expect will have a cooling effect. These layouts for the design included greenish roofs and walls, as well as sensory gardens. Other expected benefits include reducing anxiety and improving the psychological well-being of the inhabitants.

That precedent, in fact that individual project events have every chance of delivering untold benefits, increases the potential for a collective role. Members expected, in fact, that the expansion of green spaces and green cover will give their objects a competitive advantage by recruiting the largest number of buyers and improving the criterion of labor for staff.

Members more said about the dilemmas associated with connecting landscaping in their plans. For example, the outstanding qualities of the trees were compared with the fears that the roots do not follow the paths and become unsafe for travel. Another challenge was the selection of skins with fears, in fact what an unsuitable plants have all the chances to die and blow up the assistance programmes of gardening.

Our studies show that it is actually possible to arrange more in order to arrange a metropolis friendly to old people, especially during a strong steam room. Greening of settlements is the beginning. Approval of suppliers of proposals for the care of the old to the implementation of green infrastructure will own its own outstanding quality. But we still have to look at the question of reforming planning systems and urban design, in order than any other to defend the old people who love to decay in space.