THERAPEUTIC GARDEN DESIGN
Mark Epstein, Co-chair
Naomi Sachs, Co-chair
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
636 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3736 ■ Tel 202-898-2444 ■ Fax 202-898-1185 ■ www.
asla.
org
Spring 2006 http://host.
asla....
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THERAPEUTIC GARDEN DESIGN
Mark Epstein, Co-chair
Naomi Sachs, Co-chair
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
636 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3736 ■ Tel 202-898-2444 ■ Fax 202-898-1185 ■ www.
asla.
org
Spring 2006 http://host.
asla.
org/groups/tgdpigroup/
THERAPEUTIC GARDEN DESIGN
AN ASLA PROFESSIONAL INTEREST GROUP
GREETINGS,
For over twenty years, the message has
remained the same.
Almost a generation
has passed with some, but not enough, change
to health care environmental design known to
provide benefits to staff, patients and visitors.
In
the chapter “Environmental Factors Affecting
Inpatient Stress in Acute Care Hospitals,”
(Environmental Stress Gary Evans, ed.
, 1982),
Sally Ann Shumaker and Janet Reizenstein
discuss key elements that we are still calling for
today.
These include control over one’s physical
and psychological environment, social support,
and interaction with
nature.
Given the increasing evidence for benefits of
therapeutic gardens, why
are more not b
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