الأسس والمعايير التصميمية للحدائق العلاجية في بيئات الرعاية الصحية لكبار السن

Abstract EN

"Green environments are healthy environments".

this is the message repeated from healthcare research that points towards a positive relationship between greenspace and general health, outdoor environments can have important restorative qualities that promote recovery from physical and mental stresses, in this research, we review the theory of supportive gardens and its incorporeal factors, and these are social support, asense of control, physical movement and exercise, access to nature and other positive distractions, which must be taken into account during the design process because of its psychological and physical benefits for users, in this study we extract the principles and design criteria for therapeutic gardens for the elderly from literary references and field studies, and then we apply the results to the theory of gardens supporting recovery to reach the design principles and standards based on evidence, and this study establishes a set of guiding principles for designing a therapeutic garden for the elderly, and this practice guide will help facility managers and all those interested in improving health and patient care encourage patients, visitors, and staff to use the outdoors more, these environments will provide a positive distraction as the quiet and free spaces of the clinical environment where patients can recover in a calm environment and be a complement to medical treatment.