Eighth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

As the increase of public interest in health and wellness, industries have put health concepts into their businesses to attract people. In the multifamily housing industry, developers have efforted to offer occupants opportunities for healthier activities and building healthier lifestyles through the whole development process. To support the developers by designating healthier activities with references, there are institutes for health and wellbeing International Well Building Institute, The Fitwell System, and The Living Future Institute. In this situation, this research evaluates the multifamily housing developments for occupant’s health and wellness by comparing opportunities for healthier activities with actual engagement in the healthier activities by occupants. To evaluate the effectiveness of development, this paper investigates the opportunities for healthier activities in indoors and outdoors, then evaluate them by the criteria of institutes for health and wellness. To assess the effectiveness of development, this paper surveys the occupants in the multifamily housing about the actual usages of opportunities.