Welcome to our new Adaptive Gardening Guides which Jane our Horticultural Therapist at DMRC Stanford Hall started to write during lockdown.
We are so proud of Jane’s work which is a combination of her Occupational Therapy knowledge and experience, her enjoyment of gardening and her work as HighGround’s Horticultural Therapist at DMRC Stanford Hall since it opened in 2019.
Special thanks to the staff at DMRC Stanford Hall for their feedback about the Guides.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening activities therapeutically if you have a lower limb impairment. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who have difficulty with: Lower limb pain or altered sensation, standing tolerance, balance, range of movement, or who may need to use walking aids.
This information booklet is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who have: Weak grip, reduced control of large muscle movements, reduced control of movements in hands/fingers, reduced hand-eye co-ordination, upper limb pain, altered sensation, need to complete activities one-handed.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening activities to help you with your therapy if you have difficulty with vision and hearing. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who are: Partially sighted, have visual field loss, visual agnosia (inability to recognize objects), visual neglect, are hard of hearing and/or wear a hearing aid.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening activities to help you with your therapy if you have difficulty with communication. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who have difficulty with: Verbal communication (Spoken & Written), Understanding language, Expressing language, Non-verbal communication, and Social communication.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening activities therapeutically if you are a wheelchair user. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who need to use a wheelchair permanently such as someone with: A spinal injury; or who need to use a wheelchair intermittently such as someone with a lower limb amputation.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening if you have difficulty with thinking processes. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who have difficulty with: Attention, Information processing, Memory and Executive Functioning.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening if you have difficulty with thinking processes. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who have difficulty with: Attention, Information processing, Memory and Executive Functioning.
This information booklet looks at ways of using gardening activities to help with your mental health and wellbeing. It is based on our experience of working with patients in Horticultural Therapy sessions who may have difficulty with: Low mood, anxiety, reduced confidence, stress, PTSD, pain, living with a long-term health condition.
