The good of gardening: cultivating wellbeing at home and in hospices

Marie Curie, October 2017

A new joint campaign between Marie Curie, the UK’s leading terminal illness charity, and the National Garden Scheme, launches this week. The campaign, ‘The Good of Gardening’, aims to highlight the therapeutic potential of gardening for people living with terminal illnesses, and their families.

It follows a report published last year by the King’s Fund, and commissioned by the National Garden Scheme, that summarised research evidence linking gardens and gardening to a range of physical and psychological wellbeing benefits.

The good of gardening - cultivating wellbeing at home and in hospices

Te Kete Marie - the peaceful basket: an initiative for supporting people with dementia or delirium

International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2016, 22 (3): 130-6

Leanne Bolton, Tanya Loveard

Having identified the challenge to staff on an inpatient unit of caring for an increasing number of patients with dementia and delirium, an occupational therapist and two nurses developed a toolkit to improve their care.  The initiative took place in a hospice in New Zealand and the authors hope that sharing their findings will enable it to be duplicated in similar settings.

Available in print in Arthur Rank Hospice Library, Cambridge

Rehabilitation

Progress in Palliative Care, 01 December 2014, vol./is. 22/6

This a special issue of the journal, focusing on rehabilitation in palliative care and includes the following articles:

• Researching the rehabilitation needs of patients with life-limiting disease: challenges and opportunities
• An evaluation of the St Christopher's Hospice rehabilitation gym circuits classes: patient uptake, outcomes, and feedback
• Goal setting in palliative care: a structured review
• An analysis of the implementation of palliative rehabilitation in five UK hospices using the Stakeholder Salience Model
• A service evaluation of a specialist community palliative care occupational therapy service
• A physical exercise programme for palliative care patients in a clinical setting: observations and preliminary findings

Available in print in the Arthur Rank House Library, Brookfields Hospital