Preferences of patients and hospital personnel for landscaping hospital environment
2000
Kaur, A. | Vabrit, S. (Estonian Agricultural Univ., Tartu (Estonia). Inst. of Horticulture)
The design of the grounds surrounding hospitals aand residential homes is often highly institutional or at best cosmetic. The goal of the study carried out in 9 different hospitals in South-Estonia was to get information about preferences of hospital related people for landscaping hospital environment. For most of the patients the view from the window has a great importance. Therefore the view from the windows of hospital wards should be open preferably on landscape diversified with out-door design elements. 65 per cent of patients were satisfied with the view from the window of their room. Restricted or blocked view because of building constructions or other reasons was the main complaint. Especially popular seemed to be distant views. Even those who had no significant need to plants and nature admitted the importance of the quality of view from the window and the opportunity to go outside and feel free among natural settings. The study showed that the preferable hospital landscape contains open lawns as well as private sittings areas with variable plant settings. The planting design inside the hospital rooms should contain compositions of floral plants and those with ornamental foliage. The most unfavourable kind of indoor plants seem to be cactus. More than the limited amount of indoor plants in hospital rooms the patients were unsatisfield with poor settings and the lack of maintenance of the plants
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