Accessible art in healthcare facilities: exploring perspectives of healthcare art for visually impaired people.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Art in healthcare facilities shows promising results in improving patients' health and well-being and, as such, meets the WHO's definition of health technology. Yet, it remains unclear if healthcare art equally benefits all users. Given the growing number of visually impaired people (VIP), it is valuable to determine whether healthcare art is accessible to VIP and to explore strategies for improving it.

Methods

This study employed a mixed methodology, which included (1) secondary research of 25 cases of healthcare art programmes to identify the presence of accessible art in healthcare facilities and the practices that influence it; (2) review of thirty-one Health Building Notes and four supplementary British guidelines on healthcare art to discover if the access

SUBMITTER: Palityka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10627155 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature