Therapeutic Environments and the Role of Physiological Factors in Creating Inclusive Psychological and Socio-Cultural Landscapes.

The outdoor environment offers an important platform for engaging older adults from a variety of social, cultural and ethnic orientations for the purpose of improving or maintaining their physical and mental health as well as facilitating their social and cultural connections. Using a multidisciplin...

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Publicado en:Ageing International Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 433 - 447
Autores principales: McIntosh, Jacqueline, Marques, Bruno, Cornwall, Jon, Kershaw, Chelsea, Mwipiko, Rosemary
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2022
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Sumario:The outdoor environment offers an important platform for engaging older adults from a variety of social, cultural and ethnic orientations for the purpose of improving or maintaining their physical and mental health as well as facilitating their social and cultural connections. Using a multidisciplinary lens, this study looks at the requirements and potential of a more inclusive landscape design that acknowledges different modes of health, recovery and rehabilitation, drawing from both the past and the future and providing suggestions on how more efficient and culturally appropriate ways of maintaining health and social connectivity can be achieved in later life.