ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses ways in which programming practices need to be augmented for a special residential user group, the aged. For the purposes of programming, it is essential that a classification system of user issues be developed that has the potential of computer storage and multidimensional retrieval. Architectural programs have a way of getting modified along the course of design and construction by the various and increasingly numerous parties involved. An integral part of design programming should be a set of program iterations with respect to user behavior issues. It is necessary at certain stages along the planning-design-build process to instruct the key operant(s) as to elements that cannot be modified, added, or substituted. For example, where grading has not taken account of a level change from a corridor to a community room in an elderly housing project, a single 4 riser cannot be installed.
