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Aging in Place
Published in Goh Cheng Soon, Gerard Bodeker, Kishan Kariippanon, Healthy Ageing in Asia, 2022
Age-friendly environments outside the home should also be considered, which includes the immediate surroundings as well as the spaced and urban characteristics at a further distance from the home, such as walkability, supportive neighborhoods that build a sense of community, and green spaces—designs of healing environments for hospitals. The design of immediate environment for homes and hospitals that have health benefits (healing environments) has been championed by some architects, emphasizing close proximity to nature (Goto et al., 2013; Visvanathan, 2018), and exemplified by the design of the geriatric unit of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, Australia (Visvanathan, 2018).
What the Experts Have to Say
Published in Eve Shapiro, Joy in Medicine?, 2020
What diminishes joy in healthcare organizations are rules for rules’ sake, hierarchical culture, and competing priorities. We need more leaders who will take a human-centered approach to leadership and who will make investing in their people a top strategic priority. The most important investment leaders can make is in a strategy that empowers and supports staff. An engaged and joyful workforce will foster an ideal working and healing environment, which leads to higher quality of care, safer care, market differentiation, and loyalty.
Understanding patient experience as a clinical leader
Published in Jill Aylott, Jeff Perring, Ann LN Chapman, Ahmed Nassef, Medical Leadership, 2018
In visualising desirable patient experience, three main attributes need to be considered (Liu et al., 2010): Physiological: high standards of clinical care along with an efficient system of admissions, discharge and dealing with emergenciesPsychological: humanistic care, empathy, respect and communicationEnvironmental: food, room layout and equipment. An interpretation of a patients’ lived experience can bring understanding and empathy that can be used to improve their care and ultimately their lives (Finch, 2004; Charalambous, 2010). When we begin to ‘really know’ patients and their world view, we can begin to co-produce services with them to improve their experience of them. Patients in different health groups report differences in their experience (Robert et al., 2011) and, therefore, we need to consider their experience within specific pathways to target improvement interventions such as greater clinical engagement, a healing environment and professional empowerment (Gorman and Watson, 2010).
Built to Care: Cancer Centers for the Future
Published in Oncology Issues, 2020
Matt Sturm, Meagan O'Neill, Lili Hay
For patients, their family members, physicians, and staff, opening a new cancer center provides the organization with the opportunity to expand and establish world‐class levels of service, efficiency, quality, and satisfaction. For success, the health system must prepare staff to provide patient care in the new facility and prepare the new facility for staff to provide patient care. This entails a resource‐intensive, transformative process focused on converting design plans and a construction site into an operational healing environment that is integrated with the rest of the health system. It is critical to develop inter‐ and intra‐departmental workflows, refine inter‐building relationships, and cultivate an exceptional patient and family experience in the new environment. Though it is often challenging to fully comprehend these changes, especially for operational staff who have never been through such a project, activation and transition planning is one of the most important and exciting phases of the facility development process.
Health Professionals in the Disaster Recovery Space
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Corriann Schafer, Rachel Kornhaber, Loyola McLean, Valerie Ingham, Michelle Cleary
Emotional support includes relocating the person impacted by trauma from danger to a safe place which is preferably quiet, comforting and with low stimulation, although this can be challenging in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster. Keeping the healing environment structured and composed, away from the sights, sounds and smells of the disaster is initially calming. An essential component to maintaining calm is limited exposure to media reports (Hall et al., 2019). Recent Australian research into shark bite events has shown that media exposure, while often declared to be in the public interest, can harm some survivors (Taylor et al., 2019). A gentle voice and presence will soothe and the ability to listen and accept all responses without judgement is desirable. If possible, families are best kept together, particularly where children are involved, as maintaining connections with loved ones and friends is stabilising. Recent evidence suggests that housing family pets at evacuation centres also contributes to the recovery healing process (Tanaka et al., 2019). Emotional support provides a fundamental protective membrane of physical and emotional containment, care, compassion and hope (Kiser et al., 2008). When the person is calmed, soothed and settled after the initial traumatising impact, the process of healing has begun.
Art Therapy and Arts in Health: Identifying Shared Values but Different Goals Using a Framework Analysis
Published in Art Therapy, 2018
Theresa Van Lith, Heather Spooner
The arts are employed in health settings across a wide spectrum of practices that range from the creation of healing environments in design and architecture to the facilitation of participatory arts and art therapy sessions at bedside with patients. These programs share the common belief that the arts enhance the overall well-being of program participants. Creativity through the arts has been found to work holistically by benefiting clinical, psychological, social, occupational, and contextual aspects of mental health (Clift et al., 2009; Cox et al., 2010; Dileo & Bradt, 2009; Sonke, Rollins, Brandman, & Graham-Pole, 2009; Van Lith, Schofield, & Fenner, 2013; Wreford, 2010). Evidence also suggests that the arts can help people find meaning in their experiences (Csíkszentmihályi, 2014; Dissanayake, 2008, 2015; Wright & Schneider, 2010), which might be of particular relevance when people are faced with illness or disability. During a crisis, the arts remind us that we are human and validate our experience.