The search for the therapeutic environment: contemporary challenges in the age of technology

Abstract

At 5:53 a.m., I started writing this editorial while I was in a private hospital accompanying my mother, who had been diagnosed with dementia and pneumonia. Perplexed at the loss of the much-prized "therapeutic environment" advocated by Florence Nightingale, I felt the urgency to address this topic before dawn, fearing that I would lose the motivational impetus that drove me forward.