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This study is to analyze related laws and guidances of elderly housing environments, to develop appropriate group homes checklist. and to evaluate 6 group homes of Gyeongsang-do area for the examination of appropriateness and supplementation of the checklist. The analysis of literature study after 2008 has been done for the development of the checklist, and reinterpretations of laws and regulations of 49 literature studies for the criteria of each specific factor are finished. Literature study and site visit are used as methods of this study. The study result is that, first, the literature studies for group homes of architectural environments are based on ‘the standards of installation of the convenient facilities, the size of space, physical environments’ and ‘the convenient facilities for the disabled people, elderly, pregnant woman,’ but they have some limitations such as each factor is not detailed, rather comprehensive, not including behavioral features of the elderly. Second, dwelling satisfaction of the elderly revealed that there are more influences of qualitative factors than quantitative factors, and the qualitative factors of the checklist in the literature studies are abstractive expressions, lacking objectivity in the literature studies. Third, effective area, remove of obstructive factors such as steps, installation of convenient environments, and factors for plan have an effect on safety and convenience of elderly dwelling, size and shape, and use of vegetable garden affects enhancing factors of psychological satisfaction. This study focused on developing checklist of elderly group homes, and evaluating the elderly group homes environments, therefore, and it is expected that group homes for the elderly are values for alternative housing as an extended dwelling.