Due to the increase in the population of elderly people, the population resides in long term care institutions must increase also. Therefore, in order to realize living space setting requirement of residents, we will use questionnaire survey to know resident’s requirement and perspectives, and the conclusions can be a good sample for designing space in the future. The research was conducted to the residents live in long term care institutions in Taiwan. We did stratified sampling design and choose institutions first, and then did purposive sampling sieved out the residents from institutions. The last step was did questionnaire interview with residents. Each of the 1280 subjects was given questionnaires to fill out. A total of 408 was valid. The effective questionnaire returns-ratio is 37.5%. Research report: (1) residents thought “Prevent infection and function of rescue equipment” is the most important. The second important is “Healthy of living space”; The most necessary is” Healthy of living space”, the second necessary is “Prevent infection and function of rescue equipment”.(2) The job before they lived in institutions, the area of institution, monthly earning of a family and experiences of contacting institutions. Above points affect the degree of necessary. Spatial extent of the six evaluation indicators need to linear regression analysis, adjusted R square of the minimum 6.8% and the highest is up to 13.4%. The conclusion of this research report as below, we found out that convenience, privacy, comfort and social activity are not the most important and necessary essential for residents. But we thought that it will be more and more important and necessary in the future. So, when we setting the living space we should consider above essentials and strengthen it to satisfy resident’s requirement; For keeping up with future advances, when government setting the evaluation index of institutions, they can also aimed at the essential of convenience, privacy, comport and social activity. We believe that it will create a comfort and ease living space for elderly people.
