Abstract
A sensory garden in dementia care: from design to practice Balerna Diurnal Therapeutic Centre
Highlights
Our aim was to investigate how regularly attending a sensory garden can improve both quality of life and social interactions in elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease
Medical study design: Fifteen elderly individuals have been regularly attending the garden since September 2014 (Age: 69-87 yrs.; 4 males; 11 females)
Cognitive disturbances distort the capacity of orienting oneself in space and time and the faculty of discerning shapes and colours; ageing and its connected pathologies bring along a progressive decrease of self-sufficiency, and, as a consequence, of mobility skills
Summary
A newly designed sensory garden in an elderly daytime health care center in Balerna in southern Switzerland is accessible almost all year long. Architectural design: The Balerna diurnal therapeutic Centre Pro Senectute had a garden that its patients, who are aged people affected by cognitive disturbances, were prevented to enjoy by several architectonic barriers. The garden, composed of two levels placed at two different heights, was abandoned. A specific architectural project has been studied and realized in order to provide a sensory garden. Medical study design: Fifteen elderly individuals have been regularly attending the garden since September 2014 (Age: 69-87 yrs.; 4 males; 11 females)
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