Schlüsselwörter
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Gärten für Menschen mit Demenz; Gartentherapieprogramme; Nutzungs- und Gestaltungsanalyse; Richtlinien und Qualitätskriterien für Gärten Demenzerkrankter; erfassen direkter Daten dementer GartennutzerInnen
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Forschungsprogramme
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COST-Action 866 - Green Care in Agriculture
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Kurzbeschreibung
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Das Projekt 'Aussenraumgestaltung und Gartentherapie für Demenzerkrankte im institutionellen Umfeld' soll nachhaltig einen Beitrag zur Steigerung des Wohlbefindens von Menschen mit Demenz leisten. Diese Zielsetzung wird verfolgt, indem basierend auf Nutzungs- und Gestaltungsanalysen bestehender Gärten und vorhandenen Forschungsergebnissen allgemein gültige Richtlinien für solche Anlagen abgeleitet werden. Dabei werden Schwerpunkte bei der Formulierung von Kriterien bezüglich standardisierter Gartentherapieprogramme, optimaler Gartengestaltung und Qualitätsüberprüfungen bestehender Anlagen liegen. Zudem stellt eine Methodenentwicklung zum Erfassen direkter Daten dementer GartennutzerInnen ein weiteres, zentrales Thema dieses Projektes dar.
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Weitere Hinweise und Angaben
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Full name of research-institution/enterprise: Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Abteilung Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen
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Partner und Internationale Organisationen
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AT, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, FI, FR, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, SE, SI, TR, UK
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Abstract
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The project objectives were to a large extent achieved. Five practice partners in German-speaking Switzerland, with gardens for their residents with dementia, made a significant contribution to this project. The results of the principal objective, the formulation of general guidelines for the usage and design of outdoor spaces at institutions for dementia patients, are: - The guide for the usage and design of gardens for dementia patients in institutions - The findings of a social-science-based usage analysis of the practice partners' gardens - Garden therapy programmes for dementia patients - The findings of landscape-architectural surveys of the practice partners' gardens. For more details, see Annexes 1 to 4. The usage analysis shows that the gardens are little used unless the patients are accompanied and activated. The potential of such gardens can only be realised if sufficient human resources for accompaniment and care are provided. A usage concept for the garden that is optimally aligned to people with dementia and their carers is therefore extremely important. Existing theories and examples regarding the design of outdoor facilities for dementia patients emphasise facilitating orientation and activating both memories and the senses. On the other hand, too little emphasis is placed on the care and accompaniment of patients in the garden. Garden furniture and plants can positively shape the atmosphere of such gardens, in that biographically familiar elements are brought into the foreground. Some recommendations for the design of gardens for dementia patients that were repeatedly cited in the literature had to be qualified in this project on the basis of our own investigations. Garden therapy programmes, a further objective of the project, were developed by experts at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, in cooperation with the occupational and activation therapists of two practice partners, and have since been successfully implemented. The objective of further developing methods of observation to collect direct data from dementia patients was not pursued, as two publications from the University of Zurich, dealing with this very issue, appeared at the start of the project. In the context of a pilot study, a particularly suitable observation instrument, the Observed Emotion Rating Scale (OERS), was applied in the Reuss Park Centre for Care and Support, and linked to observations of activities in a garden, taken from an earlier observation phase (see Annexe 2, Sections 2 & 4). Therapists and care workers make the primary contribution to residents' quality of life. Gardens and plants can play an important role in their efforts to positively influence the well-being of dementia sufferers. It has been found that interdisciplinary cooperation is a key factor in the acquisition of new knowledge. For future projects it can be stated that the time required for merging and integrating the results should not be underestimated.
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Datenbankreferenzen
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Swiss Database: COST-DB of the State Secretariat for Education and Research Hallwylstrasse 4 CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland Tel. +41 31 322 74 82 Swiss Project-Number: C07.0128
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