edenization

The conversion of a traditional institutional nursing home into a community where patients can live a full and active life.

Since the original research that marked its inception, descriptive accounts of results of "Edenization" (or "the EA") in various facilities suggest that its endorsed changes in nursing home culture have a positive impact on residents' quality of life (Barba, Tesh, & Courts, 2002).

The Edenization program, borrowed from the Scandinavian model to make LTC facilities more like home, has spread for several years across the country. Edenization transforms the sterile hospital setting, for those who live at the facility or visit daily, into a more homelike environment, including having dogs, cats, and other pets.

The conversion of anything into an Eden or paradise.

They wanted the end of oppression, the end of tyranny, the end of the sword, work for the man, instruction for the child, social gentleness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenization of the world, and progress; and this holy, good, and sweet thing called progress, they, driven to exasperation, claimed terribly with upraised weapons and curses.

We must hope that the twentieth century will see the same thing done for the social and psychic sciences. Until this is done we need not look for the “Edenization of the world.”