We examine emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces of care, linked with past experiences.
However, such assessments have tended, given their community focus, to necessarily be silent on the character of inpatient spaces of care.
This paper presents the main results of a project that was intended to improve the design of the interior patient care space of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of the Medical Emergency Services in the Madrid Region (SUMMA 112).
R: Well on the front of our referral sheet we actually have a space that says preferred place of care, preferred place of death; where they are, preferred place of care, preferred place of death, and actual date of death, but we'll write on there.
Stress factors for patients in therapeutic environments are generally related to the inability to control the surroundings, especially in terms of physical and organisational spaces and timings of the place of care.
That the news was dominated by these cases is in no way a happy thing, of course, but it points to a moment in our recent history when we had the breathing space to care about the stories of individuals.
At the same time, through women's use of public space, the ethic of care generates possibilities for women to give and receive care from others and themselves, and creates possibilities for extending care to encompass public spaces.
Unsurprisingly our informants tended to characterise groups responding to HIV as female spaces, where values of care dominated and an openness to discuss HIV prevailed, with caring and openness regarded as stereotypically female traits.
The fifth theme environmental considerations through the identified meanings moves away from the physical space of the aged care facility; indoors and outdoors, the café and shed to where there is recognized conceptual safety for all within the environment of the IPP.
(HCP2, SMH) We call "space" the five-letter word! (Admin1, SMH) Similarly, in the case of CARE, space was identified as one of few, and most significant, barriers to the growth of the program: So what are our barriers right now? I'd say the first is space: physical space.
