Generations gardening together : sourcebook for intergenerational therapeutic horticulture / Jean M. Larson, Mary Hockenberry Meyer.

New York : Food Products Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., [2006]

x, 91 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Objective of sourcebook and benefits of intergenerational gardening -- Benefits for the elderly -- Benefits for the children -- Strategies for working with elders and children -- Developing program content -- Promoting interaction -- Designing accessible gardens -- Accessible design standards -- Accessible containers -- Constructing a raised bed planter -- Suggestions for a sensory garden: choosing plants that stimulate all five senses -- Basic sensory garden design -- Six-week intergenerational sensory garden activity plans -- Awakening the senses in the garden: overall program overview -- Preprogram orientation for elders -- Preprogram orientation for children -- Getting to know you -- The brain and the senses -- Sound and the ear -- Sight and the eye -- The sense of touch -- The senses of taste and smell -- Postprogram party -- Certificate of completion example -- Evaluation strategies -- Rationale to evaluation -- Evaluation example -- Postevaluation -- Resources: basic horticulture, botanic gardens and arboreta, honeybees, horticultural therapy, intergenerational programs, sensory gardens, therapeutic garden program curriculum, tools, universal design.