14 research outputs found
Shared decision making in designing new healthcare environments—time to begin improving quality
A Study of Relationships Between Content in Documents From Health Service Operational Plans and Documents From the Planning of New Healthcare Environments
Lessons from Evidence-Based Medicine: What Healthcare Designers Can Learn from the Medical Field
Making the Case for Evidence-Based Design in Healthcare: A Descriptive Case Study of Organizational Decision Making
Integrating Healthcare Design Research into Practice: Setting a New Standard of Practice
The importance of the physical environment to support individualised care
The physical environment is an important part of individualised care. Creating care environments tailored towards the individual person’s needs is essential for high-quality care and is increasingly recognised as being associated with improved health and well-being among older people. Today, care should be holistic and view the person behind the disease, taking that person’s perspective and treating the patient as a unique individual. Despite the emerging focus on individualised care approaches, the physical environment is still not considered as an integral part of care, and relatively little attention has been paid to environmental aspects. However, the physical environment has a great potential to facilitate or restrict care processes in a broad range of care settings, not least in residential care facilities for older people. The present chapter focuses on ways to support the individual in terms of the physical environment