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Design of Therapeutic Garden @ Park

Located near various eldercare and senior activity centres, the 750sqm Therapeutic Garden @ Tiong Bahru Park is designed to be elderly-friendly. It provides a holistic rehabilitative environment for conditions including dementia. The Garden also helps to relieve stress and brings restorative effects to the mental well-being of visitors of all ages.

Layout of Therapeutic Garden @ Tiong Bahru Park (Credit: )

The design elements in Therapeutic Garden @ Tiong Bahru Park are similar to the gardens in HortPark and Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park. It has a simple and clear garden layout, seats facing different directions to provide various views, and the profusion of plants with colour, texture and scents to stimulate the senses. An area specifically designed for gardening with customised benches for potting makes it more convenient for the elderly and wheelchair users to participate in gardening, which improves their health and mental well-being.

The Garden also has raised planter beds of two heights to cater to different groups of visitors. The raised planter beds at a lower height encourages wheelchair users to interact with plants and flowers, while the taller raised planter beds enables seniors who have difficulty bending to do gardening while standing.

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Simple and clear garden layout (Credit: National Parks Board)

Raised planter beds (Credit: National Parks Board)

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Profusion of plants with colour, texture and scents (Credit: National Parks Board)

Lotus plants in a large pot replicates a water feature (Credit: National Parks Board)

Programmes

Therapeutic horticulture programmes at Tiong Bahru Park will be conducted twice a month in the therapeutic garden, starting from 20 September 2017. Each session is about 1.5 hours and will be facilitated by guides who have been provided with training. Activities include leaf collage and scent bag making. Please email nparks_affairs@nparks,gov.sg for the detailed schedule.

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Seniors participating in scent bag making (Credit: National Parks Board)

Information for visitors Location: Tiong Bahru Park Tiong Bahru Road, 168731 Along Lower Delta Rd, Opposite Jln Bukit Ho Swee Admission: Free (open to the public) Website: https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/therapeutic- gardens

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