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will be beneficial to their recovery, and create a therapeutic, lower-stress environment for both service-users and staff.
Positive distractions to reduce boredom
From discussions with service-users, boredom is a constant companion during a ward stay. Most everyday activities pose dangers if considered from a risk perspective, but imagine your own daily routine without, for instance, tea-breaks, cooking, exercising, or gardening – and then consider a range of more benign activities – such as singing, playing cards or chess or games, reading, listening to music, accessing the internet, etc. The technology exists to allow every service-user access to the music of his/her choice in a safe manner. In trying to avoid negative incidents it might be possible that we don’t do enough to promote positive ones. We came to consider that if there is a table, painting a chessboard on the top would be a reminder that games are possible; in a garden, planting beds for herbs can stimulate sensory or savoury experiences. The edges of ward rooms and central corridors will incorporate fixed and loose furniture, with a variety of seating areas for reading, playing cards or chess, skyping, listening to music, working on computer skills, etc. In most wards the TV lounge will be enclosed by partially glazed walls to
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reduce the ambient noise levels on the ward, and so that this space can be comfort cooled during hot weather. Each ward has its own activities of daily living (ADL) therapy kitchen, which is located adjacent to the dining space. The dining space incorporates a beverage bay (with clinical exceptions), for the benefit of service-users, which can be shut down when required. Each ward also has a flexible occupational therapy room which can accommodate a great variety of creative activities or therapy sessions. Design can empower or suggest that positive activities are possible, so while designers are necessarily concerned with reducing barricade and ligature incidents,
this should only be the start, and not the sum, of their obligations.
Springfield University Hospital site The brief that we have developed, combined with the parameters of the site masterplan design, require a great many different areas and services to be located on the Springfield University Hospital site. This site itself is not continuous, but consists of two main buildings situated on either side of the existing, historic Springfield Chapel and Ballroom at the centre of the site. Given the areas that need to be accommodated, and the size of the site, the development will be multi- storey. Lower levels of each building are
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