Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)

Unique and comprehensive, Healing Gardens providesup-to-date coverage of research findings, relevant designprinciples and approaches, and best practice examples of or moreand more people, the shortest road to recovery is the one thatleads through a healing garden. Combining up-to-date information onthe therapeutic benefits of healing gardens with practical designguidance from leading experts in the field, Healing Gardensis an invaluable guide for landscape architects and others involvedin creating and maintaining medical facilities as well as anextremely useful reference for those responsible for patient care.With the help of site plans, photographs, and more, the editorspresent design guidelines and case studies for outdoor spaces in arange of medical settings, including:

• Acute care general hospitals.
• Psychiatric hospitals.
• Children's hospitals.
• Nursing homes.
• Alzheimer's facilities.
• Hospices.

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