Salutogenesis concept for hospice design

The salutogenesis concept is widely used in a healthcare system, but many architects of hospices do not use this term. This paper describes the key aspects of the salutogenesis concept, work on patient adaptation in palliative care facilities, which directly affects the building architecture and organization of the planning and functional model. The salutogenesis concept is based on three types of internal resources that support and strengthen health, their combination provides a coherence or forward movement, which resists to the entropic forces of disease and infirmity. The coherence consists of resources that improve: manageability (the ability to maintain homeostasis and physical function); resources that improve comprehensibility (the ability to see order and meaning even in uncertain situations); resources that enrich the meaningfulness, significance (desire and reasons for resisting illness). The paper considers the theoretical aspects of the salutogenesis concept for creating specialized institutions.