Outdoor environments for people with dementia
By: Susan Rodiek, Benyamin Schwarz, editors.
Contributors: Rodiek, Susan.; Schwarz, Benyamin.
Publisher: The Haworth Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Binghamton, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780789038043; 9780789038050
Subjects: Dementia -- Patients -- Care -- Psychological aspects; Dementia -- Patients -- Long-term care -- Psychological aspects; Long-term care facilities -- Landscape architecture -- Psychological aspects; Long-term care facilities -- Design and construction -- Environmental aspects; Dementia -- Patients -- Recreation; Outdoor recreation -- Therapeutic use; Outdoor recreation -- Psychological aspects; Gardens -- Therapeutic use; Gardens -- Psychological aspects; Nature, Healing power of; Dementia -- psychology; Dementia -- therapy; Environment Design; Aged -- psychology; Gardening; Homes for the Aged; Nature
Other titles: Journal of housing for the elderly.
Notes: "Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Housing for the Elderly, Volume 21, Numbers 1/2 and 3/4 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Outdoor environments for people with dementia / Benyamin Schwarz, Susan Rodiek; title: Creating a therapeutic garden that works for people living with Alzheimer's / John Zeisel; title: Outdoor wandering parks for persons with dementia / Jiska Cohen-Mansfield; title: Housing and connection to nature for people with dementia: findings from the INDEPENDENT Project / Grant Gibson ... [et al.]; title: Restorative dementia gardens: exploring how design may ameliorate attention fatigue / Keith Diaz Moore; title: Outdoor environments for people with dementia the garden-use model: an environmental tool for increasing the use of outdoor space by residents with dementia in long-term care facilities / Charlotte F. Grant, Jean D. Wineman; title: Effects of therapeutic gardens in special care units for people with dementia: two case studies / Rebecca Ory Hernandez; title: Wholistic design in dementia care: connection to nature with PLANET / Garuth Eliot Chalfont; title: Alzheimer's garden audit tool / Clare Cooper Marcus; title: Therapeutic effects of an outdoor activity program on nursing home residents with dementia / Bettye Rose Connell, Jon A. Sanford, Donna Lewis; title: Effect of increased time spent outdoors on individuals with dementia residing in nursing homes / Margaret Calkins, Joseph G. Szmerekovsky, Stacey Biddle; title: Contact with outdoor greenery can support competence among people with dementia / Erja Rappe, Päivi Topo; title: Gardens for people with dementia: increasing access to the natural environment for residents with Alzheimer's / Nancy J. Chapman, Teresia Hazen, Eunice Noell-Waggoner; title: Designing successful gardens and outdoor spaces for individuals with Alzheimer's disease / Elizabeth C. Brawley; title: Garden of the family life center, Grand Rapids, Michigan / Clare Cooper Marcus.