Nacka Hospital

The title of the project is “Travel in time and space - an art walk on Nacka hospital". The purpose of the art walks is to help the art of stimulating the health of the patient to thereby increasing the experience of health. The patients on the wards are usually aged 50–80 years and usually stays around one to 30 days. The project wants to take advantage of and make art visible as a resource in the staff's work with the wards' patients and stimulate social interaction between patients, between patients and staff and between patients and relatives visiting. Another goal is to generate experience as other care activities may benefit from similar future initiatives. The the overall goal is thus to raise patients' quality of life by integrating art into care and the care work.