Analysis of rehabilitation centers and concept of a meta-project for a center for the blind

This is an exciting time to be in the specialty of rehabilitation. Many new developments within the discipline make this a challenging and desirable field in which to work. Technological advances continue to push the limits and current knowledge. The area is booming, as rehabilitation includes many different types of patients, it is a process that can occupy form a couple of months till the whole life. The philosophy of rehabilitation takes care of the patient’s state of mind, it provides activities, educates people to be able for the daily living for themselves. It is a process of adaptation or recovery, it’s program contains the regain of maximal function, restoration and independence. Rehabilitation “refers to services and programs designed to assist individuals who have experienced a trauma or illness that results in impairment that creates a loss function ( physical, psychological, social or vocational” ( Remsburg & Carson, 2006, p.576) The concept and principle of this field is to provide a way of categorizing or considering the major factors as adaptation, holistic care, chronicity, quality if life, coping and self- care. The physical and emotional challenges that come with a disabling condition make a patient’s experience Rehabilitation professionals understand that their role, no matter how great the contribution to the client’s success, can only support and encourage strength and resourcefulness with the person. The purpose of the research was to provide the reader with the current situation and give an overview of the development of rehabilitation centers and structures for the blind. To understand blindness correctly and also to know how to educate or rehabilitate blind people effectively, one must first recognize the fact that blind people as a class are a minority in every negative sense of that term and that blindness is much more of a social problem than a physical one. The erroneous and negative public attitude about blindness rather than the physical condition is the real problem with which we must deal. From the time of infancy blind people have been taught that to be blind is to be helpless, incompetent, and inferior. Members of the general public have been taught the same thing, and in the evolution of things blindness professionals have also bought into this erroneous stereotype.

Nella prima parte ho voluto illustrare quella che è l’architettura sanitaria. Dopo ho deciso di prendere una parte più specifica e studiare i centri di riabilitazione, mostrarne le funzioni e approfondire questo tema poco conosciuto. È un campo nuovo che è sviluppato negli ultimi 100 anni. Dopo aver analizzato i centri di riabilitazione in generale, ho voluto affrontare un tema ancora più specifico, ossia quello della cecità e sviluppare il concept di un centro per cechi. Prima di illustrare la situazione attuale vorrei fare una piccola panoramica sulla nascita dei primi centri di riabilitazione.Adesso, la riabilitazione non può essere considerata solo come un ramo specifico del sistema ospedaliero. Tra gli obiettivi principali vi sono il confort del paziente, il relax e la creazione di un ambiente che porti felicità. Esiste un approccio interessante di un medico sociologo Aaron Antonovsky che si chiama Salutogenesis che si basa sul principio che la salute fisica deriva dallo stato mentale. Approccio simile a quello adottato dai greci nell’asclepeion. Da queste filosofie nasce l’idea dell’architettura emozionale, che cambia la vita e da benessere fisico, psicologico, uno stato mentale sociale e dunque una vita più sana.