New Jersey senior care facility wins landscaping award
Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center wins landscape architecture competition, according to an article on the Environments for Aging website
The Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center in Plainsboro, N.J., has won Vendome Healthcare Media’s inaugural landscape architecture competition, according to an article on the Environments for Aging website. Merwick's therapy garden that combines landscape beauty with mental inspiration while providing the environmental challenges that will help its residents train for real life. The multipart garden winds among the buildings, is viewable from many windows and offers many subtle therapy challenges.
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