How Key Residential Attributes Determine Thai Middle-Aged Adults’ Health and Well-be

Abstract

As a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak, behavioural shift has been spotted among several groups of people globally. We incline to spend longer time at home doing various activities despite after lockdown. Key residential attributes consisting of size and space, lighting, location and neighbourhood quality, nature and greenery views, as well as colour design could potentially determine occupants’ health and well-being. This research concentrates on Thai early to late middle-aged adults between 35 to 64 years oldwho permanently reside in Thailand. The motivation behind was derived from demographic shift with higher percentage of ageing society in Thailand, health and wellness megatrend, together with a capability to age-in-place. Quantitative methodology has been conducted to test this study, with the sample size of 100 respondents after applying Taro Yamane formula, in which initially 135 respondents were acquired via online questionnaire. To obtain comprehensive understanding on respondents’ demographic, behaviour and insights, both descriptive and inferential statistics including multiple regression plus ANOVA were employed to test the hypotheses on how key residential attributes determine Thai middle-aged adults’ health and well-being, in which the assumption regarding colour design component is accepted