Keeping Patients Happy (and Alive)
Hand washing and art—there are few elements of healthcare environments that are more often researched, but new solutions are still being revealed.
Hand washing and art—there are few elements of healthcare environments that are more often researched, but new solutions are still being revealed.
Anyone involved with the design of healthcare environments, particularly those to be used by children and adolescents, should review the case study at the website below, which focuses on a children’s hospital in Sydney, Australia.
Research conducted by Sreedhari Desai and Francesca Gino confirms the importance of the nonverbal cues we find in our physical environment.
Recent research links traveling through doorways and forgetting.
The Center for Health Design has prepared a glossary of healthcare design terms.
Costa investigated the tendency of people to sit in the same seat each time they are in a public space.
Several recent studies have clarified how space can be used to meet individual patient and caregiver needs.
Recent research indicates that brief, brisk (but not running) walks can enhance our ability to remember things.
Seating options provided make it more likely that people will sit with good or bad posture, and recent research indicates that posture is particularly important in healthcare settings.
Researchers at the Kellogg School of Management (Adam Galinksy and Li Huang) have found that “when bodily expressions are in conflict with one’s actual feelings . . . people become more likely to accept and embrace atypical ideas.”