Therapeutic and healing gardens are being implemented in various healthcare settings to the benefit of patients.
Hospital design in particular has taken a patient-centered approach of late, utilising the power of nature to improve health outcomes and helps decrease the length of in
Therapeutic and healing gardens are being implemented in various healthcare settings to the benefit of patients.
Hospital design in particular has taken a patient-centered approach of late, utilising the power of nature to improve health outcomes and helps decrease the length of in-patient stays.
A 2012 study on Therapeutic Gardens by Sara Holowitz, PhD found that “therapeutic and healing gardens represent an aesthetically pleasing, stress-reducing, cost effective CAM (complimentary and alternative medicine) modality.”
The idea that nature has a restorative effect on humans is a not a new concept. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm coined the theory behind the biophilia hypothesis – a theory that suggests there is an innate bond between humans and nature, and the concept was later popularised by Edward O. Wilson in his book, Biophilia (1984), in which Wilson defined the theory as “the urge to affiliate with other forms of life”.
In a healthcare setting, healing garden