Dementia garden redeveloped as clubs and groups join forces
Apple - Android She told Lanarkshire Live: “Doctors are prescribing time in the outdoors in forests and gardens to alleviate mental health problems caused by ill health, isolation, anxiety and loneliness.“In 2015 a garden was developed in Findlay Street in Motherwell which is a specialist garden for people within the community who have a memory problem, but the garden had become overgrown.“A team of people are working on the gardens to make them attractive, useful and a calming influence to the community.“The team decided that a gazebo to allow people to use the gardens in all weathers would be useful.