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Item Details
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HEALING GARDENS
THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS AND DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS |
| By: |
Clare Cooper Marcus (Editor), Marni Barnes (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£105.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0471192031 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780471192039 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
7 July, 1999 |
| Series: |
Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design |
| Pages: |
624 |
| Description: |
Serving as an alternative or supplemental treatment to drug or technology-related therapies, healing gardens are a growth area-literally and figuratively-in institutional settings around the world. This book examines the different therapeutic benefits of healing gardens and offers essential design guidance from experts in the field. |
| Synopsis: |
Unique and comprehensive, Healing Gardens provides up-to-date coverage of research findings, relevant design principles and approaches, and best practice examples of or more and more people, the shortest road to recovery is the one that leads through a healing garden. Combining up-to-date information on the therapeutic benefits of healing gardens with practical design guidance from leading experts in the field, Healing Gardens is an invaluable guide for landscape architects and others involved in creating and maintaining medical facilities as well as an extremely useful reference for those responsible for patient care. With the help of site plans, photographs, and more, the editors present design guidelines and case studies for outdoor spaces in a range of medical settings, including: * Acute care general hospitals. * Psychiatric hospitals. * Children's hospitals. * Nursing homes. * Alzheimer's facilities. * Hospices. Order your copy of this practical guide to the therapeutic effects and design of healing gardens today. |
| Illustrations: |
photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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