Less Pain Medicine Required in Sunlit Spaces
Surgical patients recovering in rooms with a lot of natural sunlight require less pain medicine.
Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
Childhood Memories May Play a Positive Role in Restorative Garden Design For Alzheimer's Care Facilities
Environmental designers have only recently focused on the therapeutic effects of the outdoor environment upon those with Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study provides new insights for those who are trying to meet the challenges of improving the quality of life for those affected by this devastating disease.
Dementia Design: Continuing to Make a Difference
Research is still critical to understanding how the environment can help support those with dementia and their families. Recent studies look at several sucessful indoor design interventions and provide outdoor design guidelines.
Design for Autistic Children
A recent article provided some tips for designers creating spaces to be used by autistic children.
Patient-Centered Hospital Design: Influences of Retail Environments
A design firm has incorporated concepts from retail environments into hospital settings to improve the patient experience.
Hospital Waiting Areas: Improving the Experience
Researchers designed a hospital waiting area that is associated with more positive assessments of the physical environment, improved mood, enhanced physiological state, and more satisfaction with the environment than the standard waiting room.
The Office Environment: Designing for Success
The physical features of the indoor work environment are closely linked to human behaviors such as creativity, teamwork, and leadership.
Understanding Park Visitors: Motivation and Satisfaction
Although much is known about park-user demographics, this research investigates visitors by determining their underlying motivations.
Supporting Concentration in Work Environments
Achieving business success depends on the work activities and behaviors of individuals, teams, and groups. We start with our clients’ business goals and measure how well office design supports these.
Environmental Control and Positive Distractions Important to Hospital Patients
In a British study, hospital patients reported that they felt it was important to retain some control over their physical environment. Maintaining desired levels of privacy and community with other patients were also important to the patients studied.
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