Physiologically relaxing effect of a hospital rooftop forest on older women requiring care

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2162-2163

  Matsunaga, Keiko ^a   Park, Bum Jin ^b   Kobayashi, Hiromitsu ^c   Miyazaki, Yoshifumi ^d  

^a Matsunaga Hospital and Health Service Facility Elderly Garden   (Japan)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL NURSING UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOREST; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; STIMULUS; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; WHEELCHAIR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; RELAXATION; TREES;

EID: 81755163934     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03651.x     Document Type: Letter

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