Vernacular Healing Landscapes in Australian Aged-Care Gardens
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Designing for people’s health and wellbeing is one important purpose for landscape design in healthcare environments. The concept of therapeutic landscapes has been applied widely in various healthcare settings. This research extends the concept of therapeutic landscapes in ordinary everyday context and explores the role of gardens in Australian aged-care facilities. Fieldwork shows aged-care residents reclaim the outdoor environment by actively shaping the landscape to create special meanings and embed memories in characterising their current living space. Findings suggest broadening the current understandings of therapeutic landscapes to incorporate residents’ vernacular healing landscapes. This paper addresses a gap in existing literature and introduces the importance of vernacular healing landscapes in aged-care facilities for its holistic reflection of older people’s landscape experiences and connection with residents' memories, which positively contributes to their health and wellbeing. It argues for future design to value and incorporate residents' vernacular healing landscapes in aged-care gardens.
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| ID Code: | 228817 |
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| Item Type: | Contribution to Journal (Journal Article) |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Measurements or Duration: | 14 pages |
| Keywords: | therapeutic landscapes, vernacular, healing landscapes, aged-care, gardens, older people, health and wellbeing, people and place, outdoor environment |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01426397.2022.2039602 |
| ISSN: | 0142-6397 |
| Pure ID: | 105759002 |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Engineering Current > Schools > School of Architecture & Built Environment |
| Copyright Owner: | 2022 Landscape Research Group Ltd |
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| Deposited On: | 14 Mar 2022 22:58 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 05:42 |
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