Assessment on the user needs for therapeutic built environment in cancer care facilities chennai india

Abstract

The built environment and the builtin space are the habitat that newlineaccommodates organizes and facilitates the users spatial needs and behavior newlinewithin the built structure In healthcare, the current building types show the newlinehealthcare built environment and built space causing stress affecting the newlineusers primarily the patients accompanying relatives and medical staff newlinetreating the patients physical and psychological needs and finally impinging newlineon their behavior and medical recovery process This effect caused by the newlinebuilding is more significant in cancer care specialty hospitals where users newlinewith high emotional stress caused by the fatality of their illness seek for newlinesupport and salutary ambience within the built environment apart from the newlineMedicare support provided by the physicians newline newline