Abbiategrasso (MI)
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Abbiategrasso former Citadel of Health: the recovery of two historic cloisters of 1900 and 1920 to accommodate 84 beds for elderly long-term patients, suffering from Alzheimer’s has been an opportunity to make two gardens The Garden of Activities’ and The Garden of Tranquility, an object of clinical trials with the Quality of Life Index (WHO) in 2010-2011. The result was published in the American magazine “No pharmacological Therapies in Dementia”. The method was based on working, using both the Therapeutic Gardens and the most modern theories of Caregivers.
The two gardens are an example of SOLE in Europe where the tracked route follows the various stages of the host’s disease leaving him the freedom to choose in which of the two gardens to spend time without any interference from operators.
The GARDEN OF ACTIVITY ‘and GARDEN OF QUIET/TRANQUILITY have some common characteristics such as hardy plants, color contrast, no thorns, no-toxic, native, with herbal and aromatic properties. The path of the plot is flat and free of barriers and has a sinuous shape wondering ring to facilitate and stimulate the hypo-visual field of the patient.
The furniture is from natural materials, comfortable and easy to clean as the garden of their home.
Diversity on the contrary is the choice of tree and shrub species to help improve the condition (agitation and apathy) and the type of business you want to play (relax, horticultural, or other).
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET.
Project: Renovation of courtyards A and B of building lot A Golgi Redaelli Institute
Luogo: Abbiategrasso (MI)
Client:Personal Services Company GOLGI-REDAELLI
Partners: Nicola Gallinaro forester, Virgilio Piatti botanist, Alessandro Bertoletti environmental engineer, Emilio Minelli medical ethologist, Gabriella Crescini biologist
Timeline: 2007 inauguration
Area: sqms 1.060 garden of activity + sqms 760 garden of tranquility
Observational study: 2012 Giovanni Andreoli head of the NA2 department of the Golgi Redaelli Institute, Erminia Gadler psychologist