When Art Meets Gardens: Does It Enhance the Benefits? The Nancy Hypothesis of Care for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease

Autor: Reinhard Fescharek, Thérèse Rivasseau Jonveaux
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire lorrain de psychologie et neurosciences de la dynamique des comportements (2LPN), Université de Lorraine (UL), Centres Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherche [CHRU Nancy] (CMRR de Lorraine), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Fescharek sculpture and design
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, IOS Press, 2018, 61 (3), pp.885-898. ⟨10.3233/JAD-170781⟩
ISSN: 1387-2877
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170781⟩
Popis: International audience; The creation of healing gardens for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related diseases (ADRD) offers vast potential. They can play a role in the scaffolding of cognitive disorders, emotional stress, sensory processing, sense of harmony, and appeasement. These effects are achieved through a distributed interplay of psychological functions with the immediate environment and local culture on the one hand, and dialogue on the other. The garden, a natural canvas created by man, shares with art the ability to foster an esthetic sense for which the perception can be measured by functional neurological imaging exploration. Art represents a mediator for the collaborative realization of distributed psychological functions between different individuals. Based on the hypothesis of an optimization of the therapeutic potential of a garden by a design adapted to the neuro-psycho-social and cultural specificities of its users combined with the thoughtful introduction of an artistic dimension, the “art, memory and life” healing garden was created at the University Hospital of Nancy as a prototype for persons with ADRD. The design concept was based on two hypotheses that we formulate herein, discuss their theoretical foundation, and suggest enhanced design for therapeutic gardens based upon our experience.
Databáze: OpenAIRE