has been designed specifically for dementia patients. This garden is unique because it is on a fifth floor balcony and has an elongated shape that is uncommon for a therapeutic dementia garden. Typically therapeutic dementia gardens are square or round and create easy walking paths that follow these shapes. This elongated garden is split up into three distinct areas with two entrances, one from the dining room / kitchen and the other from the activity room. Entrances are a very important part of dementia gardens. Because way finding abilities can be damaged by the disease clear way finding strategies must be put into place. Entrances have to be thoroughly considered when designing a therapeutic dementia garden. Having the entrances be extremely obvious is one of the ways this is executed. Entrances should be visible from all places in the garden and should be very obvious that they are an entrance or exit. Another strategy that this particular garden uses is the use of colour, with a path painted onto the ground. Each distinct area of the garden is a different colour and is connected with a very obvious walking path for the patients to follow. The three areas of the garden include: “a covered front porch outside the kitchen; a park with circular benches between the two other areas and with no direct doorway inside; and a back yard with seating and a barbecue outside the second doorway.” Therapeutic dementia gardens are used to reduce the symptoms of the disorder without the use of drugs. In literature Design for Aging: Post-Occupancy Evaluations, American Institute of Architects Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, Eds. Healing Landscapes: Therapeutic Outdoor Environments, Martha Tyson The Healing Landscape: Gardening for the Mind, Body, and Soul, Gay Search Interaction by Design: Bringing People and Plants Together for Health and Well-Being, Candice Shoemaker, Ed. Restorative Gardens: The Healing Landscape, Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Richard Enoch Kaufman, Sam Bass Warner Jr. Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces, Clare Cooper Marcus and Naomi Sachs Therapeutic Gardens: Design for Healing Spaces, by Daniel Winterbottom and Amy Wagenfeld See also List of garden types Sensory garden Horticultural therapy Alzheimer's disease References External links How Hospital Gardens Help Patients Heal March 19, 2012 Therapeutic Landscapes Network, http://www.healinglandscapes.org American Society of Landscape Architects, https://www.asla.org American Horticultural Therapy Association, http://ahta.org Types of