TY - JOUR
T1 - Interior design
T2 - a new perspective in supportive care of patients with acute onset of debilitating diseases
AU - Mauri, Davide
AU - Kampletsas, Eleftherios
AU - Smyris, George
AU - Tsali, Lampriani
AU - Tsekeris, Periklis
AU - Harissis, Haralampos
AU - Kamposioras, Konstantinos
AU - Tolia, Maria
AU - Hyphantis, Thomas
AU - Ntellas, Panagiotis
AU - Gazouli, Ioanna
AU - Zarkavelis, Georgios
AU - Mavroeidis, Leonidas
AU - Amylidi, Anna-Lea
AU - Torounidou, Nanteznta
AU - Gogadis, Aristeidis
AU - Nixon, Joanna
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - Background: Upon the onset of a debilitating rapidly evolving condition (such as cancer or a rapidly progressing myopathy, neuropathy, respiratory disease, or a severe traumatic injury), individuals have limited time to find a new home or make radical structural modifications in their residence. How the affected patients can continue sharing the same house with their families, while meeting their own special requirements, is thus rising as a critical issue. Household and daily routine rearrangements, either temporary or permanent, may be necessary, to ameliorate the life of patients with impairments, lasting for months or even years. Objectives: Interior design may timely provide a highly efficient ‘"living" palliation for debilitating medical conditions directly at patients' home-site. Methods: Research of relevant literature, using keywords as ‘"debilitating conditions,’" "home care,’" ‘"end of life care,’" ‘"care of advanced cancer patients,’" "care of patients with mental disorders,’" ‘"home care of covid-19 affected patients,’" and "care of patients with degenerative illnesses.’" Results: We found out that patients and their relatives may not be aware of the probable interior design solutions to their daily life challenges, imposed by a disease-related impairment. In parallel, interior design experts may equally be unaware of these issues, as well as of who is in need of the available solutions. Similarly, medical and architectural sciences are not connected, eventually failing to meet patients’ everyday needs.
AB - Background: Upon the onset of a debilitating rapidly evolving condition (such as cancer or a rapidly progressing myopathy, neuropathy, respiratory disease, or a severe traumatic injury), individuals have limited time to find a new home or make radical structural modifications in their residence. How the affected patients can continue sharing the same house with their families, while meeting their own special requirements, is thus rising as a critical issue. Household and daily routine rearrangements, either temporary or permanent, may be necessary, to ameliorate the life of patients with impairments, lasting for months or even years. Objectives: Interior design may timely provide a highly efficient ‘"living" palliation for debilitating medical conditions directly at patients' home-site. Methods: Research of relevant literature, using keywords as ‘"debilitating conditions,’" "home care,’" ‘"end of life care,’" ‘"care of advanced cancer patients,’" "care of patients with mental disorders,’" ‘"home care of covid-19 affected patients,’" and "care of patients with degenerative illnesses.’" Results: We found out that patients and their relatives may not be aware of the probable interior design solutions to their daily life challenges, imposed by a disease-related impairment. In parallel, interior design experts may equally be unaware of these issues, as well as of who is in need of the available solutions. Similarly, medical and architectural sciences are not connected, eventually failing to meet patients’ everyday needs.
KW - aging population
KW - debilitating diseases
KW - functional indoor space
KW - interior design
KW - medical care
KW - supportive care
UR - https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/palliative-medicine-reports/656/overview
U2 - 10.1089/pmr.2021.0031
DO - 10.1089/pmr.2021.0031
M3 - Article
VL - 2.1
JO - Palliative Medicine Reports
JF - Palliative Medicine Reports
ER -
