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Summary: "Healing Environments" Heal
Review: For anyone who has entered a hospital and was overwhelmed by its bus-station like appearance, "Healing Environments" provides hope that help is on the way. If everyone who designs hospitals or healthcare facilities reads this book, the world will become an easier-to-use and more beautiful place. If you have a loved-one in the hospital, make your doctors and nurses read this. Insist that the administrators read it. If you design public spaces yourself, this book is a must. It will help you see the space through the users eyes. If you have a loved-one in the hospital or nursing home, this book will give you tips on how small changes can provide a more livable environment for you and your loved-one. It will help you pinpoint the characteristics of the environment that cause you stress and thereby help you manage it. It will give you tools for maximizing the help doctors, nurses and administrators can give you.
In 10 chapters, "Healing Environments" guides you through 1) how detrimental the standard hospital is to our health, 2) how making a more friendly space is actually inexpensive, 3) how families can and should be involved in the use of hospital space, 4) how loud, scary machines cause stress and how to hide them from the patient and their family, 5) how pleasant views, memorable fragrances, delicious tastes, and beautiful sounds reduce stress and supports healing, 6) how knowledge?navigational directions, treatments, prognosis expectations, and life-style advice?reduces patients' fear, 7) that empowerment over the negativity of our healthcare environment is possible, 8) why and how to incorporate nature into healthcare designs, and 9) how to support the human desire to seek spiritual meaning in a distressful environment. The last chapter offers a complete description of a healing environment?a place of comfort and dignity for the body, a pleasure for the senses. The author has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about this topic, and she has many years experience designing hospitals. She has created a beautiful book filled with delicate and rich colors, an easy-to-read font, and wonderful graphics. Each page provides a delicious picture for your eyes. Huelat obviously loves beautiful things and knows how to make them. When I get sick, I want to go to one of hers?
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Summary: "Healing Environments" Heal
Review: For anyone who has entered a hospital and was overwhelmed by its bus-station like appearance, "Healing Environments" provides hope that help is on the way. If everyone who designs hospitals or healthcare facilities reads this book, the world will become an easier-to-use and more beautiful place. If you have a loved-one in the hospital, make your doctors and nurses read this. Insist that the administrators read it. If you design public spaces yourself, this book is a must. It will help you see the space through the users eyes. If you have a loved-one in the hospital or nursing home, this book will give you tips on how small changes can provide a more livable environment for you and your loved-one. It will help you pinpoint the characteristics of the environment that cause you stress and thereby help you manage it. It will give you tools for maximizing the help doctors, nurses and administrators can give you.
In 10 chapters, "Healing Environments" guides you through 1) how detrimental the standard hospital is to our health, 2) how making a more friendly space is actually inexpensive, 3) how families can and should be involved in the use of hospital space, 4) how loud, scary machines cause stress and how to hide them from the patient and their family, 5) how pleasant views, memorable fragrances, delicious tastes, and beautiful sounds reduce stress and supports healing, 6) how knowledge?navigational directions, treatments, prognosis expectations, and life-style advice?reduces patients' fear, 7) that empowerment over the negativity of our healthcare environment is possible, 8) why and how to incorporate nature into healthcare designs, and 9) how to support the human desire to seek spiritual meaning in a distressful environment. The last chapter offers a complete description of a healing environment?a place of comfort and dignity for the body, a pleasure for the senses. The author has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about this topic, and she has many years experience designing hospitals. She has created a beautiful book filled with delicate and rich colors, an easy-to-read font, and wonderful graphics. Each page provides a delicious picture for your eyes. Huelat obviously loves beautiful things and knows how to make them. When I get sick, I want to go to one of hers?
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Summary: "Healing Environments" Heal
Review: For anyone who has entered a hospital and was overwhelmed by its bus-station like appearance, "Healing Environments" provides hope that help is on the way. If everyone who designs hospitals or healthcare facilities reads this book, the world will become an easier-to-use and more beautiful place. If you have a loved-one in the hospital, make your doctors and nurses read this. Insist that the administrators read it. If you design public spaces yourself, this book is a must. It will help you see the space through the users eyes. If you have a loved-one in the hospital or nursing home, this book will give you tips on how small changes can provide a more livable environment for you and your loved-one. It will help you pinpoint the characteristics of the environment that cause you stress and thereby help you manage it. It will give you tools for maximizing the help doctors, nurses and administrators can give you.
In 10 chapters, "Healing Environments" guides you through 1) how detrimental the standard hospital is to our health, 2) how making a more friendly space is actually inexpensive, 3) how families can and should be involved in the use of hospital space, 4) how loud, scary machines cause stress and how to hide them from the patient and their family, 5) how pleasant views, memorable fragrances, delicious tastes, and beautiful sounds reduce stress and supports healing, 6) how knowledge?navigational directions, treatments, prognosis expectations, and life-style advice?reduces patients' fear, 7) that empowerment over the negativity of our healthcare environment is possible, 8) why and how to incorporate nature into healthcare designs, and 9) how to support the human desire to seek spiritual meaning in a distressful environment. The last chapter offers a complete description of a healing environment?a place of comfort and dignity for the body, a pleasure for the senses. The author has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about this topic, and she has many years experience designing hospitals. She has created a beautiful book filled with delicate and rich colors, an easy-to-read font, and wonderful graphics. Each page provides a delicious picture for your eyes. Huelat obviously loves beautiful things and knows how to make them. When I get sick, I want to go to one of hers?
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Summary: To open the forgotten door of the interior design field
Review: I am studying this book with a highlighter and a pen. I agree with author's concepts completely. It feels right internally. The phrase, "[a]ddressing barriers to healing should begin in the privacy and comfort of our own homes and the places in which we work to ensure we build environments supportive of health and well-being[,]" from the book is my professional goal of the interior designer. This work is an excellent guide in the creation of healing designs. I highly recommend this book to other interior design professionals and anybody else because it opens the forgotten door in the design field called "Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit."
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Summary: To open the forgotten door of the interior design field
Review: I am studying this book with a highlighter and a pen. I agree with author's concepts completely. It feels right internally. The phrase, "[a]ddressing barriers to healing should begin in the privacy and comfort of our own homes and the places in which we work to ensure we build environments supportive of health and well-being[,]" from the book is my professional goal of the interior designer. This work is an excellent guide in the creation of healing designs. I highly recommend this book to other interior design professionals and anybody else because it opens the forgotten door in the design field called "Design for the Body, Mind & Spirit."
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Summary: An Innovative look
Review: This book bridges the many aspects of life we take for granted but intuitively know, and combines it with sensitive design approaches that I haven't come across before.
Designers and members of a building team should consider many aspects of the environment to make a project a success-but often don't. This book touches upon everything from empowering a patient, removing the barriers, to the spirit within us.
It can be appreciated and used by the design industry as well as any person who recognizes the sensitivity needed for a healthy environment.
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