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Korean people's social consciousness on elderly issues has changed since the Long-term Care Insurance System for the elderly of Korea was introduced on July 2008. This study through the concept of Universal Design examines a change of welfare facility for the elderly in Japan, where aging has previously proceeded and in-depth studies on the various fields including architectural environment for elderly people have actively been proceeding. The purpose of this study, from the Universal Design point of view, is to look for the relationship between the welfare policy and change in living environment and the concepts of Normalization, Barrier-Free Design, Eco Design, and Community Design. Therefore, this study is one of basic researches to reanalyze the key words of coexistence, commensalism, and independence in the 21th century changing into horizontal social structure including the physical change of environment, not with the concept of general design but with that of Universal Design.