Improving well-being via adaptive reuse: transformative repurposed service organizations

ABSTRACT

This research illustrates the social supportive role that adaptive resuse of service organizations may play in promoting individual well-being. This work showcases how a health care clinic located in a developing country transforms into a setting which hosts community members’ socially supportive relationships during the clinic's off-hours. The empirical results reveal that participating in an array of social activities offered in the clinic grants clinic patrons, most of whom are financially vulnerable, access to social supportive resources. The results show that social support is positively related to patrons’ sense of belonging, well-being, and quality of life. The authors encourage public health and governmental agencies, especially in low-income areas where people often lack sufficient social support and in locales where governmental agencies confront monetary limitations, to consider the adaptive resuse of structures (i.e. clinics, education facilities, and office buildings) into spaces that encourages community members to gather and to socialize.

摘要

本研究说明了服务组织的适应性重用可能在促进个人幸福感方面发挥的社会支持作用。这项工作展示了一个位于发展中国家的卫生保健诊所如何转变为一个在诊所休息时间接待社区成员的社会支持关系的环境。实证结果表明，参与诊所提供的一系列社交活动可以为诊所的顾客, 其中大多数人在经济上处于弱势，提供社会支持资源。研究结果表明，社会支持与顾客的归属感，幸福感和生活质量呈正相关。作者们鼓励公共卫生和政府机构，特别是在人们往往缺乏足够社会支持的低收入地区, 以及在政府机构面临资金限制的地方，考虑通过适应性再利用结构（即诊所，教育设施和办公楼）使其成为鼓励社区成员聚会和社交的空间。

KEYWORDS:

• Social support
• adaptive reuse
• transformative service research
• well-being
• repurposing

关键词:

• 社会支持
• 适应性重用
• 变革性服务研究
• 福利
• 重新调整用途

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.