Gardens/Gardens in Healthcare and Related Facilities


Fairport Baptist Home
Fairport, NY, USA
Water garden installation for an assisted living center.
Designer: Zaretsky and Associates, Inc.
www.zaretskyassociates.com

Family Life Center
Sophia Louise Durbridge-Wege Living Garden
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Alzheimer's and other dementia
See "Landscape Design: Patient-Specific Healing Gardens" in World Health Design and Cooper Marcus (2005) in references.

Franciscan Villa
South Milwaukee, WI
Facility master plan, therapeutic garden for dementia care unit, and healing garden and walkway.
Designer: Zimmerman Architectural Studios, www.zastudios.com
See http://www.franciscanvilla.org/other-services.php

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Pete Grosse House Healing Garden
Shoreline, WA, USA
Rooftop garden
Designed and built by students and faculty through the University of Washington Lansdcape Architecture program.
View a slideshow and read a description of this garden on the University of Washington website: http://www.caup.washington.edu/larch/Programs/design_build/pete/pete.php
Read Valerie Easton's article about the garden online at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw12112005/plantlife.html
See also "A Refuge on the Roof of Pete Gross House: UW landscape-architecture students transform a drab deck into an oasis of garden spaces for patients, families." (2005) and Hinshaw (2003) in references.

Friends Hospital
Borgheest Garden
A “safe” garden for the disabled and patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Psychiatric
www.friendshospitalonline.org

Friendship Village Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Roger Smith Memorial Garden

Shaumburg, IL, USA
Designer: Hitchcock Design Group
See http://www.friendshipvillage.org/amenity-nature.cfm

 


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