5 Videos

A chosen topic of interest drawn from my fieldwork experience is gardening as a therapeutic activity or just to fill in time.

This Video from YouTube focusses on Horticulture as Therapy. It talks about the joy as well as the pain relief it can bring to clients who may use it.

YouTube provides this video headed “Therapeutic Gardening helps residents with Dementia” this video shows how some dementia residents use gardening as therapy as it helps them to concentrate on one thing.

 

This video focuses on therapeutic gardening in general for various different patients who may need it.

This particular video shows a tool used within arthritic therapeutic gardening which involves a mechanism used to make carrying a pot plant easier for arthritic patients by lightening the load.

The final video that I will provide is about a sensory garden constructed by a man who designed it so that people with disabilities could use it in order to learn skills or just for enjoyment. This Video is the most relevant to my experience as I worked in a garden with Intellectually Disabled Adults who gardened all day.

References:

Youtube. (2010). Arthritis Therapeutic Gardening Tip.mp4. Retrieved From:            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7oz1WazEo&feature=relmfu

Youtube. (2010). Therapeutic Garden Tip.mp4. Retrieved From:       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwtaw2hnP54

Youtube. (2009). Horticulture as Therapy. Retrieved from:      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojB2j_EQyRA

Youtube. (2009). Therapeutic Gardening Helps Residents with Dementia.  Retrieved From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_hvKZv4ViE

Youtube. (2009). Sensory Community Garden. Retrieved From:        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AED6NLSWj-E&feature=related