www.aasrc.org/aasrj American Academic & Scholarly Research Journal Vol. 8, No. 5, Sept. 2016 1 Elderly landscape use in nursing home: Konya Dr.I.Işık nursing home example Sertaç Güngör a Ahmet Akay b a Selçuk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Peyzaj Mimarlığı Bölümü Kampüs Selçuklu/Konya/TURKEY sertac@selcuk.edu.tr b Selçuk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Peyzaj Mimarlığı Bölümü Kampüs Selçuklu/Konya/TURKEY ahmetakay@selcuk.edu.tr Abstract. The ageing is an irrepressible fact in terms of biology, history and social- cultural life. It has many concerns of many science disciplines. It is not sufficient to this fact just psychological or mental. Demographic changes show the elderly population is the fastest growing part of the world’s population, particularly in World. Therefore, populations become older and more disabled and these trends continue in the future. The aging process restricts the many physical and cognitive abilities of the elderly. This study aims to find suitable landscape feature used by elderly people in nursing home outdoor spaces to make daily living activities more efficient and satisfying for them and reveal the criteria to reach a solution. These landscape feature aim to improve the independently living and the quality of life of elderly people and connect them to social life. In this study, for various reasons (illness, at his own request, so involuntarily.) The adequacy of the nursing home to nursing home resident's garden landscape they found the elderly, desires of individuals in terms of landscape and nursing home of their time in the garden how to make better quality, were examined. As a result, expectation of landscape design among elderly people is affected by age, gender, educational level and marital status. Considering these variables in health care services available for elderly people will improve the quality of services and their life. Keywords: elderly, nursing home, landscape design, Konya/Turkey 1. INTRODUCTION One of the most important facts of the 21 th Century that affects the whole world, and Turkey is no exception, is the decrement seen in preventable diseases and deaths in parallel with scientific and technological advancements, as well as the increase in the number of elderly population due to the better living standards of today. It has been reported that elderly population is expected to reach a number of 800 million by 2025 and make up 10% of the world populace, this percent is expected to be 9-10% for Turkey; and by 2040, 24% of the world populace is estimated to be 65 year-old or over. It has also been emphasized that the increase in elderly population will be higher in developing countries than developed ones, 75% of the whole world’s elderly population will be living in these countries due to an estimate four-fold increase by 2050. Accordingly, it has been supported that today’s and future’s focus should essentially be on increasing the living standards of the elderly and protecting said standards (Andsoy et al., 2012:30-31). An individual who is over 60 is generally accepted as an elderly; however classification of age may vary depending on a country’s overall situation, health insurance system, life- expectancy (Demirezen, et al, 1999:99-105). WHO (World Health Organization) defined the classification of age as follows;