Haga Hälsoträdgård the project
Haga Hälsoträdgård offers rehabilitation, occupational training, and keep-fit measures in a specially designed garden for persons with different disabilities, on long term sickness benefit or unemployed. Haga Hälsoträdgård shall give an increased opportunity to get back to work, a better health and quality of life. Moreover can Haga Hälsoträdgård offer education for personal groups in areas like garden therapy.
To spend time at Haga Hälsoträdgård is inspiring and we want to give the individual opportunities to take an active part in society.
The garden
The landscape architect, Ulf Nordfjell Ark LAR/MSA wants to give Haga Hälsoträdgård a formation that will reflect its period, its people and their needs. Haga Hälsoträdgård in Hagaparken is a place to enjoy the changes of the seasons under enjoyable forms, outside as well as indoors.
The design will enrich everyday life and give quality of life to participators, friends and family, and the personal in their common goal to strive to contribute to the rehabilitation of the participants. The establishment is formed in a way, which stimulates to train, step by step and different functions.
The purpose of the design and shaping is to allow the individual to develop through challenge, which will lead to growth and stimulation. We consider the needs and resources of the individual through flexibility in the design.
The design of the environment is taken from our time and the days of The King Gustav the 3rd. The spot for the garden is the sunny hillside behind the well-known Butterfly house. Along with the site in Hagaparken is a unique establishment created based on the theme of garden therapy and a place for experiences over and above the usual.
Haga Hälsoträdgård opened in the autumn of 2004.
About Hagaparken
Fredrik Magnus Piper designed Hagaparken in 1783 by instructions
of Gustav the 3rd. Hagaparken is today, together with the royal
Djurgården, a part of Nationalstadsparken. (The National
City park organisation.) The English park has many buildings
that are characteristic of the 18th century, for example the
pavilion of Gustav the 3rd and Koppartälten (the Copper
tents) built after the design of the French architect Louis
Jean Desprez.
Rehabilitation
The rehab program is based on an interdisciplinary theory. The
platform for the work is research and experiences concerning
stress and also the positive effects nature have on health. We
start from the individual need for a balance between rest and
recovery, as well as stimulation and activity.
The participants have the opportunity to acquire different physical, psychological, intellectual skills and strategies, and also to find factors that will make them more able to handle stress. The participants are given tools that they can use to improve their situation in life and regain work ability.
Rehab program
The rehabilitation
starts with a professional analysis and mapping of the individual
needs, and through setting goals and forming rehabilitation plan,
the individual process is formed. Guidance, garden activities
for recovery and training, relaxation, body awareness, emotional
understanding and strategies for coping are important factors
for success. We work together concerning rehabilitation and also
to plan work training and/or to go back to work by visiting different
places of work and by having a dialogue with employers.
The rehabilitation is pursued
both as an individual project and in groups of about eight participants.
In the rehabilitation team are the following included: occupational
therapists with specialty in garden therapy, behaviourists, physiotherapists,
gardeners and doctors.
Social insurance office
In order to gain an
optimal rehab outcome, the participants should have gone through
the necessary medical analysis. This rehabilitation at Haga Hälsoträdgård
shall be a part of a more extensive plan for rehabilitation.
Do you want to know more?
Project Leader
info@haga.se