Horticultural Therapy for the Improvement of Cognitive Function
Improving cognitive function is one of the most challenging global issues in cognitive impairment population. Horticultural therapy involves the expertise of a horticultural therapist who establishes a treatment plan for horticultural activities that aim to achieve cognitive changes, and thereby improve health-related quality of life.
Studies in health care settings show a link between nature and healing.
Studies in health care settings show a link between nature and healing.
Studies in health care settings show a link between nature and healing.
Nature contact may serve to supplement or augment medical treatment and therapy. Both passive exposure to landscapes and more active interactions with nature provide mental and physiological benefits that contribute to healing and therapy.
Gardening on a psychiatric inpatient unit: Cultivating recovery
Studies in health care settings show a link between nature and healing.
Studies in health care settings show a link between nature and healing.
Nature-related activities such as gardening and farming have been used as part of mental health treatment around the world for centuries and beginning about 200 years ago in the United States.
Yes! Magazine article on dirt
New York Times Opinion Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
New York Times Opinion Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
Dirt Is Beautiful
By reconnecting with soil, we heal the planet and ourselves.
Leah Penniman
New York Times Opinion Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
New York Times Opinion Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
New York Times Opinion Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
This is an excerpt from “Everything in Its Place,” a posthumous collection of writings by Dr. Sacks.
As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience
Australian Care Farm Model
Rooftop Gardens in Australia
Rooftop Gardens in Australia
Rooftop Gardens in Australia
Rooftop Gardens in Australia
Rooftop Gardens in Australia
The Healing Power of Plants
Rooftop Gardens in Australia
The Healing Power of Plants
Open a Window
CNN Staying Well
The Healing Power of Plants
CNN Staying Well
CNN Staying Well
CNN Staying Well
Craig Hospital
CNN Staying Well
CNN Staying Well
