Edenization

Noun

Edenization (uncountable)

1. (nursing) The conversion of a traditional institutional nursing home into a community where patients can live a full and active life.
   • 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).2003, Bethel Ann Powers, Nursing Home Ethics: Everyday Issues Affecting Residents with Dementia
   • 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...2013, Jacqueline Sullivan, Pastoral Care With Young and Midlife Adults in Long-Term Care
2. (broadly) The conversion of anything into an Eden or paradise.
   • 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...1887, Victor Hugo, translated by Joseph L. Blamire, Les Misérables, volume 4, London; New York: George Routledge and Sons, translation of original in French, page 32
   • 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.”1916, The Biblical World, volume 48, page 340