Implicit and improvised practices of care that foster comforting environments have vital potential to support institutionally endorsed models of care (e.g., Safewards). Comfort is discussed in dialogue with existing literatures from psychiatric nursing, healthcare building design and design anthropology.Corridors and doors are presented as spaces where people have brief interactions that can contribute to everyday comforting experiences.These constitute a finely tuned repertoire of everyday comfort ing practices of care at psychiatric contexts. ![]() ![]() Comfort, often unnoticed until it is absent, needs to be maintained through continuous “small” but intentional acts of care. This paper builds on comfort theories and demonstrates implications for practice through ethnographic examples.
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