Now, as part of "green care", it employs a staff of six and has a dozen volunteers.
Fig. 1 Green Care and Traditional Health Care (Haubenhofer et al. 2010, p. 107).
This article represents a review of green care across Western European countries.
The following questions are addressed: What is green care, and what are its basic goals?
In this context, our study tests the usefulness of the BMC tool for research on agricultural green care.
What are the most commonly known types of green care interventions, and how are they connected to each other?
There are different sectors of green care intervention that vary from each other regarding their structure, specific goals, and purpose.
In some countries, it is called green care, in others 'social farming' or 'care farming' (Hine et al., 2008; Di Iacovo and O'Connor, 2009; Sempik et al., 2010).
This study aims to investigate whether residents of green care farms that provide 24-hour nursing care participate more in (physical) activities and social interaction compared with residents of other nursing homes.
The term "social farming"—or alternatively care farming, farming for health, green care, connective agriculture for Leck et al. (2014) etc.—is used to describe farming activities aimed at promoting the care, rehabilitation and sheltered employment of disadvantaged people, i.e., people with psychophysical disabilities, convicts, drug addicts, minors and immigrants.
