Open up nursing home design by giving direct access to real gardens

LOS ANGELES: The long-term care sector has gone batty. It is currently conducting a study which examines the effect of an indoor simulated garden installation that includes visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli on resident well-being, compared to the effect elicited by a reminiscence installation and a control no-installation condition.

A quasi-experimental ABA design was used (i.e., two intervention conditions plus a wait-list control condition). A survey instrument was administered to long-term skilled nursing home residents (N = 33) at three time points (pre-, during, and post intervention) over an 8-week period, which measured mood, behavior, health, and social interaction.

For god’s sake, let people wander in their own world in a real garden…

Full story covered in the Seniors Housing & Healthcare Trends.

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