Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative and Social Care
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Image Credits -- Acknowledgements for Second Edition -- 1 A New World of Palliative and Social Care -- The Century of the Child and the Century of the Elderly -- A Duty of Care -- On Being at Home -- An Architecture that Rises to the Occasion -- Hospices -- Maggie's Centres -- Care Homes & -- Almshouses -- The New Almshouse Movement -- Retirement Villages -- Co-Housing in Europe -- 2 A House at the End of Life -- Life and Death on the Public Ward -- The Right to a Good Death -- The Rise of the Hospice Movement -- Care, Architecture, and the Passing of Time -- The Poetics of Space: Studied Neutrality or a Sense of Occasion? -- Evidence-Based Design -- 3 Be Kind Quickly: How the Modern Hospice Movement Changed (Nearly) Everything -- Beginnings and Endings -- A Darker Side to Architectural History -- A Pattern Book for Shelter and Care -- Hospitals (and Hospices) Learning From Hotels -- Physical, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Care -- 4 The Brief is Everything -- Behind High Walls -- 'The Brief is Everything' -- The Cork Brief -- The Hospice Opens: Squeezing the Very Last Drop From Life -- New Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted, UK -- Other Design Guidelines -- Programme for The Good Hospice in Denmark -- Maggie's Architectural Brief -- Lessons for Hospitals -- 5 Public Faces and Private Places -- Fitting Into the Landscape -- Locating Hospices Close to Acute Hospitals -- Location Efficiency -- The Public Face of Hospice Architecture -- Car Parking -- First Impressions -- 6 Everything Gathered in One Room -- From the Cell to the Open Ward -- From the Open Ward to the Private Room -- Rooms: Coming, Going and Inhabiting -- The Flexible Room -- 7 Open to the World and to Life -- Case Study 1: St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne -- The Gardens.
