Modern hospice design : the architecture of palliative and social care /

"The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its timely advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care, today more necessary than ever. Rooted in the social history of the care of the elderly and terminally ill, Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Worpole, Ken (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The new world of palliative and social care
  • 2. A house at the end of life
  • 3. Be kind quickly: how the modern hospice movement changed (nearly) everything
  • 4. The brief is everything
  • 5. Public faces and private places
  • 6. Everything gathered in one room
  • 7. Open to the world and to life
  • 8. In a hospice garden
  • 9. The evening land