Psychiatric Hospital in Middelfart

Circadian rhythm-stimulating light in psychiatry

In the Psychiatric Hospital in Middelfart Lightcare installations are in the guard-room, living room, cleaning room, medicine room, corridors, common areas, and patient rooms.

The staff can control lighting from the guard-room. Here staff can control the light in patient rooms and can switch between Circadian Lighting and pilot light. In the wards the patients have access to on/off switches for the circadian light. If the patients have special requests for a coloured light that calms them, staff can set the colour for individual areas.

In the corridors the light is controlled automatically, the circadian rhythm is synchronized with the shift changes. The staff at night is seeing the orange/red light that stimulates their inner biological clocks.

The light in the psychiatric ward in Middelfart creates a better and calmer environment for patients and safer environments for the staff. The light helps to reduce the level of conflict between patients and staff and dampens aggressive behaviour and anxiety cases.