O OLHAR ERGONÔMICO NO USO DE ESPAÇOS POR IDOSOS: UM ESTUDO DE CASO EM ÁREA DE SERVIÇO

Thanks to the improvement in the quality of life of the Brazilian population, their life expectancy increases, and consequently the elderly population increases. In this context, the present work addresses the issue of environmental ergonomics, a case study involving the service area of a popular housing built by Caixa through the project "Minha casa, minha vida". Where we used the Methodology for Human-Centered Construction Projects. The results of the research arrived at ergonomic recommendations that consider the limitations of this type of user, besides the fact that parameters were generated for new projects of the genre.