1. Purpose of research
 The purpose of this study is to understand the behavior of the elderly in the small local city in which a daily living area is to be established, and to also study the appropriateness of establishing this area.

 2. Research method
 The research target is the entire official senior care service area (five districts) in Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, which has four junior high school districts. To understand the actual conditions of the elderly's living areas, elderly subjects selected from the five districts were surveyed by interview concerning their attributes, home address, and destinations when going out. Specifically, a total of about 15 support or care-required elderly subjects who use day services and 15 healthy elderly subjects who participate in elderly club activities were selected from each district. They were interviewed about the location of their home and destinations when going out (supermarkets, local clinics, hospitals, beauty salons, banks, restaurants, day care centers and senior social clubs etc. Data were gathered from 87 elderly subjects who require care or support and 142 healthy elderly subjects, for a total of 229 subjects.

 3. Results and Discussion
 Overall, it was observed that the elderly's living areas have a “unipolar propensity.” That is, the elderly's destinations tended to be clustered in the uchiura (inner harbor) region.
 Therefore the way the living areas are spread out in the uchiura (inner harbor) districts and sotoura (outer harbor) districts differs greatly. In short, in the uchiura districts, the distance to each facility is relatively short, so the living areas of the elderly are relatively small. On the other hand, the distance to each facility in the sotoura districts is relatively long, so episodes of walking to go to destinations are few, and the living areas of the elderly are quite broad.
 Next, we studied the appropriateness of establishing one daily living area in the entire city area. From the standpoint of population size and the living areas' “unipolar propensity,” we believe this establishment is appropriate. However, from the standpoint of average time and distance of the elderly's living areas, establishing one area in the entire city is somewhat too vast.
 Going forward, there is a need to study efficient placement of facilities in the entire city area based on the decline in the elderly population. Taking into account living areas' “unipolar propensity” due to Suzu City's monocentric urban structure, if facilities are established in the outskirts of the urban center, the elderly can receive services within their living areas, as they have to date. This is also efficient in terms of time and distance. However, there is the need to also consider the limits of time and distance.