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UPCOMING EVENTS

.:2008 Children in the Garden: Restoration and Rehabilitation in Nature

Legacy Emanuel Children’s Hospital
Portland, Oregon

Workshop repeats
March 24, 2008
August 11, 2008
October 20, 2008
9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

For more information, please contact Teresia Hazen at 503-413-6507 or email thazen@lhs.org

Objectives:
Participants will:
1. List three benefits of gardens in pediatric programming.
2. Design two new garden-related activities to enhance clinical programming for each season.
3. Summarize one research study relevant to your setting.
4. Outline planning steps for garden development including design, collaborations, fundraising, programming, maintenance and evaluation.

Target Participants:
Pediatric rehabilitation therapists, managers, pediatric team members, hospital schoolteachers, garden designers, fundraisers, horticultural therapists, healthcare students and garden volunteers.

Conference Team Leaders and Lead Instructors:
Anita Asmussen, M.A./CCC, manager, Pediatric Development and Rehabilitation Program at Legacy Emanuel Children’s Hospital.
Anita has participated as part of the interdisciplinary pediatric garden team since 1996. In her clinical practice, she is an avid user of the garden to meet the therapeutic needs of her patients as well as the needs of their families.
Teresia Hazen, MEd, HTR, QMHP, registered horticultural therapist and coordinator of Legacy Health System Therapeutic Gardens and Horticultural Therapy.
Teresia has facilitated the interdisciplinary pediatric garden team since 1996. The award-winning Emanuel Children’s hospital garden serves all pediatric programs including the family, well siblings, all hospital patients, staff and the community as a public garden.
Other instructors will include a range of garden users: pediatric rehabilitation therapists, Child Life, hospice, the arts, physicians, nurses, managers, spiritual care team, community relations staff, families and more.

.:American Horticultural Therapy Association 2008 Annual Conference

October 30 - November 2, 2008
Lexington, KY

Dr. Nilda Cosco will present the keynote address at the 2008 AHTA Annual Conference entitled Connecting Young Children to Nature: From Research to Practice.
For more information, visit the website: www.ahta.org/

.:HEALTHCARE DESIGN.08: Annual Center for Health Design Conference

November 8-11, 2008
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington D.C.

Website: http://www.hcd08.com/ME2/Default.asp

HEALTHCARE DESIGN.08 is the premier conference devoted to how the DESIGN of responsible built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future.

HCD08 is the industry's best-attended and most well-respected conference on evidence-based design for healthcare. This annual event is produced and founded by the industry's leading information and educational advocates, Vendome Group, publisher of HEALTHCARE DESIGN and Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management magazines, and The Center for Health Design, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, in conjunction with the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health.

.:Environments for Aging.09

March 29-31, 2009
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA

Environments for Aging is a comprehensive three-day experience, bringing together architects, owners, developers, facilities managers, design professionals, product manufacturers, and government officials to explore and share new ideas for creating attractive and functional living environments that meet the unique needs of our aging population.

Environments for Aging will enable you to share common goals, innovations, and building, architecture, and design best-practices. You will gain inspiration through a gathering of like-minded, forward-thinking individuals who have a vision for the future and who will be instrumental in shaping it.

Environments for Aging, is produced by Vendome Group in conjunction with The Center for Health Design, the same partnership that has brought you the Healthcare Design Conference and leading educational materials and magazines including Healthcare Design, Nursing Homes, soon to be Long Term Living, and the Environments for Aging / DESIGN.

Website: http://www.environmentsforaging.com/ME2/Default.asp

.:Healthcare Garden Design - Certificate of Merit Program
Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, IL

8 day program, May 6 - May 13, 2009
Website: www.chicagobotanic.org/certificate/hgd

"Healthcare garden design is an emerging area of specialization in which several professions converge to create environments of care. In this professional development program, attendees will discover the many ways gardens provide verifiable health benefits for their patients, staff and visitors. The multi-disciplinary program introduces the latest research in healthcare garden design, demonstrating the benefits of healthcare gardens while providing participants with the expertise, knowledge and tools to effectively design, manage and evaluate such gardens. These garden environments of care maximize the effectiveness of clinical treatments for illness and disabilities, and create passive garden experiences that significantly reduce staff stress and absenteeism, improve patient health, increase client satisfaction and strengthen the bottom line."

Contact: Amelia Simmons-Hurt
Manager, Certificate Programs
Ph: 847.835.8293
Fax: 847.835.6865
email: continuingeducation@chicagobotanic.org

IN THE NEWS

.:New book by Garuth Chalfont: "Design for Nature in Dementia Care (Jessica KIngsley Press, 2007)

"Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. The benefits of connecting the subjective experience of dementia sufferers with their physical environment include sensory stimulation and enhanced cognitive, psychological and physical well-being, as well as improved behaviour management.

Design for Nature in Dementia Care adopts a holistic and person-centred approach to caring for dementia sufferers by considering their emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being. The book provides comprehensive examples of the wide range of ways a person can connect to nature through indoor and outdoor activities, elements and environments, such as caring for house plants and pets, gardening and cooking, practising handicrafts and domestic chores, and offers solutions and insights to a professional understanding of the design of buildings and landscapes.

The book draws on interdisciplinary research evidence from environmental psychology, neurology, architecture, nursing and dementia care practice, and spells out practical ways in which care providers and design professionals can design for nature in dementia care.

For more information or to buy the book, visit the publisher's website: http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/isbn/9781843105718

.:New book co-authored by Gail Vittori and Robin Guenther, FAIA: Sustainable Healthcare Architecture.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Includes a chapter on Nature and Healing, showcasing 5 healthcare facilities projects, focusing on site and landscape design, and two essays.

Case Studies include:
Laguna Honda Replacement Hospital, San Francisco
Southeast Regional Treatment Center at Madison State Hospital, Madison, WI
The Howard Ulfelder, MD, Healing Garden at the Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, Boston
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital, Vancouver, WA
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin

Essays:
"The Science, Theory and Promise of Biophilic Design" by Stephen Kellert, PhD. and Judith Heerwagen, PhD
"Design with Rhythm" by Jody Rosenblatt Naderi, ASLA and Jerry Smith, ASLA, LEED AP.

Thanks to Jerry Smith for this contribution.

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