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| Home | Modern Hospice Design: Ken Worpole, Routledge, May 2009 
What is commonly known as the modern hospice movement began in 1967, with the founding of St Christopherıs Hospice by Dame Cicely Saunders. Since then the movement has grown to more than 8,500 hospice projects across the world, many inspired by this and subsequent British initiatives in the care of the terminally ill. Ken Worpoleıs new book tells the story of that movement, though it focuses principally on the architectural challenges involved in designing these new |
It further deals with every aspect of the design process, from finding a site to choosing an architect, and from developing detailed floor plans, to creating a plan for the garden. It is based on case studies from across Europe, and includes floor plans and other specific design details.
The book costs £24.99 and is illustrated with colour photographs.
"This highly recommended book stimulates thought of the most visceral and emotionally haunting questions of architecture, as we nurture and facilitate the profundity of good deaths.' Journal of Housing, Theory and Society." “Modern Hospice Design is thought-provoking...Ken Worpole traces a path out of the darkness and into the light: from the Victorian asylum or sanatorium, devised to punish the sick, to the hospice movement and its assertion that even those who can't be made well by clinical medicine are entitled to be treated by the medical profession with not just dignity but something like love.” Times Literary Supplement, 8 January 2010 |
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sanctuaries for the dying, and the wish to create calm, homely and peaceful settings, in sharp contrast to the institutional deaths so many older people still suffer. 