Smell of Jasmine Improves Quality of Sleep
Designers creating environments where individuals need to sleep soundly, such as hospital patient rooms or on-call physicians’ rooms, can improve the quality of sleep by scenting them with jasmine.
Designers creating environments where individuals need to sleep soundly, such as hospital patient rooms or on-call physicians’ rooms, can improve the quality of sleep by scenting them with jasmine.
Core concepts and extensive user observations and questions leads to good healthcare design.
How can the physical environment change doctor-patient communication? How should amublatory care facilities be designed?
The right environment increases the use of stairs.
As Richardson and her colleagues describe, “Sleep is essential for human survival and sleep deprivation is detrimental to health and well being.”
The most recent issue of NeuroRehabilitation focuses on important factors to consider when designing homes for people with neurodisability
New research, conducted by scientists at the University of Montreal, confirms the importance of using artwork incorporating pleasant images in healthcare settings.
Benign, generally non-offensive smells make some individuals feel ill. Why?
Dutch researchers have completed a research project that supports the findings of an assortment of other studies, all indicating that there are advantages to living near green spaces.
Deborah Burnett, writing on the Healthcare Design blog, encourages other healthcare designers to include sound systems in all of the environments they develop because research evidence now very clearly indicates the value of having patients listen to music.