Dementia Landscape Designers, Retirement Developments, Nursing Homes & Alzheimer Gardens.
Do Sensory Gardens work for Dementia Patients?
Secure gardens for both the elderly and young are key for many homes. These gardens should not only cover all the senses for mental and well being stimuli but we at Tim Lynch Associates believe it should also embrace modern technology. “Secure gardens does not mean fortress style walls and fences, but opportunities to provide outdoor spaces that allow residents to self map their way around the garden."
Alzheimer or dementia gardens are key to many of the Practice’s designs and the careful consideration of designing an outdoor space/garden that is self organising and self mapping, with careful building edge design is vital if any outdoor space is to be successful. Selection of materials and hardscape elements is vital for any form of dementia garden.
However creating a sensory garden on its own, with regard to the five senses, for dementia sufferers, is in fact not, in our opinion, the right way to form such a specialist garden.
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