Saturday, 30 May 2015

Healing Gardens in Hospitals

URL: http://spokane.wsu.edu/academics/Design/IDRP2/Vol_1/Cooper_Marcus.pdf


Hospitals can be very stressful places for patients, visitors and stuff and going to a nearby landscape or garden can help to deal with these stressful experiences and could improve health.

Different types of gardens are required for different areas of healing. Each sector needs different features. If you have one garden for all types of medical conditions you might be losing the point of it all.

Abstract art should not be used since it could be considered threatening to traumatic patients.


Clare Cooper Marcus, January 2007. Healing Gardens in Hospitals. [pdf] NAI Publishers. Available at:  http://spokane.wsu.edu/academics/Design/IDRP2/Vol_1/Cooper_Marcus.pdf [Accessed on 12th March 2015]

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