Singapore is pioneering mental health tourism, opening 16 therapeutic gardens to soothe visitors with autism, dementia, anxiety, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). By 2030, it plans to have 30 free gardens, designed with input from scientists to gently stimulate human senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, and sight, says Singapore’s National Parks Board (NPB).
Unique features include ultra-violet light mazes, confidence-building lookouts, memory-triggering signage, immune-boosting horticulture zones, and wheelchair obstacle courses, the NPB states. The layouts were influenced by neuroscientists and psychologists, who studied the brain activity of 92 visitors to Singapore’s first therapeutic garden,
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