The green spaces of the city and their significance in rehabilitation of cognitive functions – The spatial method of stimulation

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The article addresses the spatial aspect as a factor of significant importance for the success of rehabilitation functions. The location of cognitive rehabilitation activities in an open, urban space allows people with reduced fitness to take up stress-free rehabilitation activity without time limitations and without stigmatization. The architectural design of the positions for mental rehabilitation implemented in public space was addressed to people with dysfunctions of all ages and people suffering from covid fog as a result of a past disease. This article presents the results of preliminary observational studies conducted on a focus group of COVID19 convalescents, who were provided with an open rehabilitation space equipped with 12 rehabilitation tables. The results showed the decisive influence of the placement of rehabilitation elements in the open green space for rehabilitation results. The task of the mind training path is to raise and maintain intellectual fitness in a friendly recreational space. Prototype studies have shown that, de-pending on the arrangement of individual stops, the mind training path offers different efficiency of exercises, but it is always a better result than in closed spaces of medical facilities.

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2024-06-30

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Blazy, Rafał, et al. “The Green Spaces of the City and Their Significance in Rehabilitation of Cognitive Functions – The Spatial Method of Stimulation”. Archives of Civil Engineering, vol. 70, no. 2, June 2024, pp. 5-21, doi:10.24425/ace.2024.149848.

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