HOME

A 'home' is a place where a person, family, or group of people live or spend much of their time, or where a person feels safe or comfortable.

Contents

Concept

Psychological impact

Other usages

References

External links

See also

Concept

While a house (or other residential dwelling) is often referred to as a "home," the concept of home is broader than a physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge and safety, where worldly cares fade and the things and people that one loves becomes the focus. Many people think of home in terms of where they grew up, and "home" can even be a time rather than a place.^[1] The word "home" is also used for various residential institutions which aspire to create a home-like atmosphere, such as a retirement home, a nursing home, a group home (an orphanage for children, a retirement home for adults, a treatment facility, etc.), a foster home, etc.
There are cultures which lack fixed homes, with nomadic people often moving their homes from place to place.

Psychological impact

Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of habit, the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior, emotions, and overall mental health. For example, in the introduction to the film ''Patch Adams'', the concept of "home" is compared to the human need for peaceful sanctuary, the absence of it thus leading to restlessness. Such restlessness, as can be seen by that particular case, may lead to depression and, ultimately, to a loss of sanity.^[2]

Other usages

The real-estate industry increasingly replaces the word house with 'home' in its literature, as in 'a four-bedroom home' or a 'modern townhome', a usage that is intended to suggest that the item being sold already has the emotional attributes of home before someone buys it.

References

1. 41 results for: ''home''
2. Patch Adams Script - Dialogue Transcript

External links

★ Environment Psychology Lab

See also

★ Human habitat

★ Ecosystem

★ Environmental psychology

★ Real Estate

★ Homelessness

★ Home improvement