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Essay: Healing gardens—places for nature in health care
Notably, they can explain that a healing garden can serve as a restorative resource, helping patients, visitors, and staff alike to cope better with stress experienced in connection with their own or others' illness and admission to hospital. Chronic stress can affect physical and mental health through increasingly well-understood physiological pathways, involving, for example, neurohormonal and immune function. [...]consider the intertwining of place and process.
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Therapeutic Landscapes
This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines covering twelve categories ranging from burn patients, psychiatric patients, to hospice and Alzheimer's patients, among others. Sections on participatory design and funding offer valuable guidance to the entire team, not just designers, while a planting and maintenance chapter gives critical information to ensure that safety, longevity, and budgetary concerns are addressed.
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Healing gardens: design processes and realizations of beneficial environments
Having defined the topic and its related management effects in the healthcare environment, this paper reports considerations of specific design processes, including evidence-based design, Integrated Healthcare Strategies, participatory practices and post occupancy evaluation. Landscape of Italian examples follows before a case study of three Californian healing gardens dedicated to cancer patients, linked to a survey of this category of users’ needs in such spaces. Conclusions report the reflection of practical implications deriving from studying North American examples, underlining the opportunity for audit and certification of therapeutic gardens, as well as the chance to export them outside health infrastructures for social needs.
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The Future of Healing Gardens
Speakers at annual conferences such as Healthcare Design and the International Academy for Design and Health's World Congress are now presenting case studies of successful gardens or sets of evidence-informed guidelines to audiences that comprise not just designers but the healthcare administrators--CEOs and chief financial officers--who will (or may) hire them. Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) for Healthcare, the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and the Environment of Care Section of the 2014 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals and Outpatient Facilities all now include a requirement or credit pertaining to access to nature.
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Therapeutic landscapes : an evidence-based approach to designing healing gardens and restorative outdoor spaces / Clare Cooper Marcus, Naomi A. Sachs
This comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation. It provides general guidelines for designers and other stakeholders in a variety of projects, as well as patient-specific guidelines covering twelve categories ranging from burn patients, psychiatric patients, to hospice and Alzheimer's patients, among others. Sections on participatory design and funding offer valuable guidance to the entire team, not just designers, while a planting and maintenance chapter gives critical information to ensure that safety, longevity, and budgetary concerns are addressed--Publisher description.
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