What is Hospice?
Hospice is special care for the terminally ill, especially those who have a life expectancy of about 6 months is highly required. It is a facility that houses well trained staff as interdisciplinary health care team of doctors, nurses , home health , therapist and trained volunteers to offer support based on their particular areas of expertise to terminally ill.
The Hospice Care movement , founded just over 40 years ago, recognizes this process in three stages :
DYING - DEATH - BEREAVEMENT
Need of Hospice:
Today , one third of lifetime health care costs are spent in the last 12 months of life. 80% of all deaths occur in hospital or nursing home facilities which together, account for only 20% of possible options for care.At the same time, social program costs are increasingly being downloaded to municipalities .Faced with this , the social and economic health and well being of communities worldwide, depends on our ability to cultivate a new relationship with death as a natural part of living fully, and from this understanding evolve new " models and practices for compassionate end of life care.
A place to provide the special care needed to help the mortally ill 'Live until they Die.'
Objective :
"In short,the building should invite patients."
How can a building help do this ?
We need to consider five ways :
Hospice is special care for the terminally ill, especially those who have a life expectancy of about 6 months is highly required. It is a facility that houses well trained staff as interdisciplinary health care team of doctors, nurses , home health , therapist and trained volunteers to offer support based on their particular areas of expertise to terminally ill.
The Hospice Care movement , founded just over 40 years ago, recognizes this process in three stages :
DYING - DEATH - BEREAVEMENT
Each stage is equally important part of an individual's experience, requiring a focus on personal counselling and palliative medicine with the intent of achieving a desired quality of life at the end of life...
It aims at adding life to days.Not days to life...Need of Hospice:
Today , one third of lifetime health care costs are spent in the last 12 months of life. 80% of all deaths occur in hospital or nursing home facilities which together, account for only 20% of possible options for care.At the same time, social program costs are increasingly being downloaded to municipalities .Faced with this , the social and economic health and well being of communities worldwide, depends on our ability to cultivate a new relationship with death as a natural part of living fully, and from this understanding evolve new " models and practices for compassionate end of life care.
A place to provide the special care needed to help the mortally ill 'Live until they Die.'
Objective :
- It looks to create the necessary architectural comforts required to accommodate the needs of terminally ill patients.
- It aims to remote an environment where the patients feel at home and as normal as possible .
- To encourage communication and interaction between the patients by creating lots of green space sand proper planning .
- To provide a psychological environment for the patients and their families to come to terms with their predicament.
- It should have a character of its own, but not so much that a patient will feel conspicuous as he goes in or out.
- It will be speaking some grace in living, reassure any sense of insecurity without domination and makes a positive appeal to our aesthetic feeling.
"In short,the building should invite patients."
How can a building help do this ?
We need to consider five ways :
- By creating a community of patients,family and staff.
- By creating transitions.
- By encouraging mobility.
- By illuminating the passage of time.
- By confronting the meaning of death.
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