Developing a multisensory methodology to explore older people's landscape experience in Australian aged-care facilities

This paper aims to develop a sensory methodological framework to explore older user's landscape experience. Applying empirical experience in Australian aged-care facilities, it addresses a methodological gap in the current literature to help move beyond the current taken-for-granted approaches...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ageing and society 2023-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1707-1729
Hauptverfasser: Tsai, Mimi, Brough, Mark, Cushing, Debra Flanders
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper aims to develop a sensory methodological framework to explore older user's landscape experience. Applying empirical experience in Australian aged-care facilities, it addresses a methodological gap in the current literature to help move beyond the current taken-for-granted approaches such as interviews, cognitive mapping, behavioural observation and visual methods. We propose a more holistic method which enables the exploration of older people's in situ environmental experience. The multisensory framework we propose here is based on the first author's doctoral fieldwork experience that took place in two aged-care facilities in Brisbane, Australia. Findings suggest this framework facilitates an understanding of users’ olfactory, auditory and visual responses to the physical environment, and promotes a deeper engagement with the landscape. We argue that this is essential to promoting good landscape design which genuinely connects with older people's needs.
ISSN:0144-686X
1469-1779
DOI:10.1017/S0144686X21001471