Interpreting therapeutic landscape experiences through rural stroke survivors' biographies of disruption and flow

This article utilizes the concepts of biographical disruption and biographical flow to expand understandings of how a therapeutic engagement with the rural landscape may change over time for individual stroke survivors. In doing so, it explores how the rural landscape can be experienced as both a therapeutic and a non-therapeutic landscape. The paper draws on in-depth interviews with nineteen stroke survivors living in rural areas in the Northern Netherlands. Because of thecognitively and physically disabling changes that can occur as a result of stroke, interviewees' stories revealed complex... Mehr ...