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Gardens in Healthcare Facilities: Uses, Therapeutic Benefits, and Design Recommendations
Clare Cooper Marcus, Marni Barnes
The Center for Health Design
1995
96 pages
Paper

Recognizing the therapeutic potential of oudoor environments, many healthcare facilities have incorporated gardens as an adjunct to traditional therapies. And yet to date, very little empirical research has specifically addressed how such gardens are used, who they serve, and what their precise benefits are. This award-winning report by two researchers in the field of people-place transactions fills this gap, systematically examining four restorative gardens at healthcare facilities in the San Francisco Bay area.

Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations
Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes
John Wiley & Sons
1999
360 pages
Hardcover

Nature as a form of therapy has been practiced throughout history, but technological advances during this century have reduced its importance among the scientific community until recently. This new book is the in-depth continuation of the research report that authors Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes created originally for The Center for Health Design. The researchers focus their energies on the therapeutic benefits to staff, patient and visitors of incorporating healing gardens to a wide variety of healthcare settings. Citing examples ranging from hospitals to long term care environments and rehabilitation centers to halfway houses, this book includes detailed site plans and easy to follow checklists for designing healing gardens as well as many examples of successful healing gardens both in the public and private sector of healthcare.

The Healing Landscape
Martha M. Tyson
UW Wisconsin Press
240 pages
Hardcover

Explores principals and strategies needed to plan, design, and build therapeutic gardens and other outdoor landscaped areas in hospitals, healthcare facilities, and assisted living environments. The author provides a hand-on understanding of the therapeutic potential of outdoor spaces, and how they help heal the body and spirit. Loaded with case studies of successful outdoor environments.

Restorative Gardens: The Healing Landscape
Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Richard Enoch Kaufman, and Sam Bass Warner
Yale University Press
1998
240 pages
Hardcover

This book is a wake-up call for healthcare administrators, physicians, and their facility designers. Most of America‰s healthcare facilities are working against the emotional needs of those within them: patients, staff, and visitors. The environments are hostile to healing and to the well being of staff and visitors. By telling the history of the provision of gardens for people in healthcare settings and reviewing and evaluating the literature about the effects of gardens on patients, the authors give careful studies of six institutions that now employ gardens in their therapeutic processes.