Bendlage, Rudolf: Gärten für Menschen mit Demenz

Alexander Nix / Rudolf Bendlage / Astrid Wölfel / Erich Schützendorf Gardens for People Suffering from Dementia and Alzheimers A guide for open space design for people with dementia problems, beginning with a basic understanding of the illness itself. This book contains all the important information required, from the original inspiration to developing the design and financing aspects (with many examples for thematic gardens, such as farmers', fruit or vegetable gardens) compiled by the authors. Building on this, detailed explanations of planning with material and plant applications through to implementation and maintenance are described. The authors draw on their many years of professional experience and explain their procedures with the aid of numerous examples from day-to-day practice. Detailed planting tables and a questionnaire on garden use provide helpful additional information for sponsors, decision-makers and rest-home personnel, as well as landscape architects and garden and landscape designers.