That nature has positive effects on our health and wellbeing is no news. The healing powers of nature have been described and used to promote health for thousands of years. The Knowledge of how to design an outdoor setting in a retirement home is vast and under constant development. In spite of the current research, many retirement homes around Sweden have an outdoor setting that is lacking. With simple means one could improve elderly people’s opportunity for contact with the outdoor environment significantly, thus increasing the well-being and improving health for the elderly in the final stages of life. In this thesis, I have made a design proposal for a garden in Norrdala retirement home in Lund. I initially present Outdoor environmen...