Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
In ageing societies the importance of healing and restorative environments has been noticed both in practice and in research. The vast literature on the issue has shown that the features of the built environment may have a positive impact on patients and their experiences. These findings have been incorporated in building new healing environments, but at the time of planning older facilities, these research findings were not available. The aim of this article is to study how the modern principles of creating healing environments have been incorporated into healing environments that were built before the new Millennium.
This paper introduces a vast theoretical literature review on the qualities of healing environments. This is done from five perspectives. These are the indoor environment, physical environment, natural environment, sensory environment, and mental environment. In the empirical part of this study, five Finnish rehabilitation centers are studied by reflecting the findings from the literature review with the case rehabilitation centers. The aim of the empirical part is to describe how the principles of healing environments have been utilized in this stock of older facilities that were initially built to be either hospitals or rehabilitation centers.
In theoretical terms this article provides a summary of existing research and utilizes this understanding in a multiple-case study setting in the existing building stock. The theoretical literature review will be used in practical terms to understand how the existing environments could be improved to provide modern healing and restorative experiences. To make this easy, this paper presents a list of features that affect the healing nature of an environment according to the theory. This list is intended to give food for thought for those interested in improving the existing stock of healing environments.
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