Nourished by nature
When contemplating the design of aged care facilities, the benefits of building a communal garden could prove too valuable to exclude.

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According to English poet Alfred Austin, ‘to nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul’. And when it comes to health and ageing, there is growing evidence to suggest that gardening and being immersed in greenery, is beneficial to older adults in more ways than one.
A 2022 literature review by Edwin Cedamon entitled The role gardens and gardening can play on the health ...