Meaning of Edenization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The conversion of a traditional institutional nursing home into a community where patients can live a full and active life.
   uncountable
2. The conversion of anything into an Eden or paradise.
   broadly, uncountable

Examples

“Since the original research⟳ that marked its inception, descriptive accounts of results of "Edenization" (or "the EA") in various facilities suggest⟳ that its endorsed changes in nursing home culture have⟳ a positive impact on residents' quality of life (Barba, Tesh, & Courts, 2002).”

“The Edenization program⟳, borrowed from the Scandinavian model⟳ to make⟳ LTC facilities more like⟳ home, has spread⟳ for several years across the country. Edenization transforms the sterile hospital setting, for those who live⟳ at the facility or visit⟳ daily, into a more homelike environment, including having dogs, cats, and other pets.”

“They wanted the end⟳ of oppression, the end⟳ of tyranny, the end⟳ of the sword, work⟳ for the man, instruction for the child, social gentleness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenization of the world, and progress⟳; and this holy, good, and sweet thing called progress⟳, they, driven to exasperation, claimed terribly with upraised weapons and curses.”

“We must hope⟳ that the twentieth century will see⟳ the same thing done for the social and psychic sciences. Until this is done we need⟳ not look⟳ for the “Edenization of the world.””

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