When Hope Falters, Balm for the Soul

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When Hope Falters, Balm for the Soul

New York Times (12/29/94) P. C1
Raver, Anne

There is an increasing movement among landscape architects, nurses, environmental psychologists, patients, and families to return nature to the lives of patients. Gardens are appearing in hospitals, hospices, and residences for the elderly throughout the country. "Wherever medicine has no magic--for AIDS or cancer or mental illness--gardens reappear. When we think science can do it all, they disappear," says Dr. Sam Bass Warner, an urban historian at Brandeis University. While no one claims that gardens can cure cancer or AIDS, social scientists in the past decade have begun to try to measure the effects of nature on an anxious mind. One study, in which half of the patients looked out on trees and sky and half faced bricks, found that those with views of nature had shorter stays, took fewer painkillers, and complained less to nurses. The Tamarand Foundation, a nonprofit group in New York dedicated to making life better for AIDS patients, built a garden on a terrace off an AIDS unit at Terence Cardinal Cook Hospital. The designer of the garden, David Kamp, emphasized the sound of trickling water and wind chimes as well as the fragrance of herbs because hearing and smell are the two senses least affected by AIDS.

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