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“Alive Inside” Viral Video Sweeps Internet In Advance of World Premiere
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A video clip from the upcoming documentary Alive Inside demonstrating the power of music to awaken and transform a man seemingly living in a stupor in a nursing home has swept the Internet with over 3.5 million views in only three days.
Debuting in New York April 18, 2012, Alive Inside tells a story of hope and beauty in places where they are hard to find – nursing homes caring for the oldest and most frail. “This is one of the first films to take a hard look at why emptiness and loneliness invade and pervade old age in modern life,” said Bill Thomas, one of the experts featured in the film.
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“Post-Apocalyptic Nursing Home Parties Propel Indie Novel to Bestseller List”
Well, not yet, but…
As you already know, we hosted a live stream video event celebrating the Tribes of Eden Virtual Book Launch on April 4 featuring interviews, videos, Q&A with fans, book readings and autographed book giveaways. Don’t worry if you missed it, we posted the entire launch party on YouTube here.
But there’s more! Fans still have a chance to win a personalized autographed copy of Tribes of Eden addressed from Dr. Bill Thomas to you. How?
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#ProAging: CES Highlights Tech For Boomers On-The-Move
This past 10 through 13 January saw the annual International Consumer Electronics Show present some of the up-and-coming technologies for the next year(s). The CES “is owned and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $186 billion U.S. consumer technology industry.” Most of the news pertains to the latest [...]
Full Story »Video Resources Available for “Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care”
With funding from Picker Institute, the team that produced the best-selling “Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care: What you do matters” has developed a series of multimedia resources that build on the book’s content. Click here to visit the … Continue reading →
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Boomer Men in the 1980′s
One of the Post War generation’s greatest achievements has been the creation and maintenance of a generational mythos that venerates the MOST iconic personalities, events and ideas of its time.
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Colorado Housing Authority Considers The Green House Project
I’m in Denver today about to meet with state housing authority officials to discuss building the nation’s first housing authority-based Green House Project homes.
What we hope to achieve is to get permission to take the kind of care that people receive in Green House homes and begin delivering it through the housing authority in Loveland, Colo. It’s an exciting development in The Green House Project movement.
Video after the jump.
#ProAging: Celebrating The Senior Games As Winter Approaches
Doctors, teachers, and athletes encourage us all to get more exercise. For many of us, our springtime means the energy to start a program to get fit and overcome the initial discomforts. As we enter our summer months, the foundation of better health has been set, and we begin to push some of our boundaries. [...]
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Where Love Matters: 18 Minute Video
This video takes you into four open and operating Green House homes around the United States. All of these homes are licensed as skilled nursing facilities, and uphold The Green House principle of creating Real Home: elders are able to … Continue reading →
Full Story »TimeSlips Creative Story Telling To Be Featured on Today Show
This Friday NBC’s Today Show is airing a story on a remarkable creative storytelling project called TimeSlips designed to support growth for people with dementia and their caregivers.
TimeSlips is an improvizational story-telling method that “replaces the pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine.”
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The Healing Powers of a Drum Circle
Used by shamans and healers for thousands of years, drum therapy is the practice of using rhythm to promote healing and maintain physical, mental and spiritual health.
The ancient practice is seeing a resurgence in popularity as a growing body of research validates the therapeutic effects of group drum circles.
Eden at Home: Culture Change For Home Care
With more than 12 million people receiving home care services — compared to 1.5 million in nursing homes — home care is in need of culture change just as much as traditional long term care, said Dr. Bill Thomas, founder of the Eden Alternative, which has recently branched out to provide community and home-based care through the Eden at Home program.
Full Story »Video of Elder Veteran, Thomas Harrell, From St. Martin’s in the Pines
In honor of Veteran’s Day, on November 11, we are pleased to highlight the work that is being done in Green House homes around the country to bring homes of dignity, privacy and individuality to the heros of this nation. … Continue reading →
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“Like” The Eden Alternative on Facebook
Today, we’re launching a new Eden Alternative Facebook Page and I’m excited to invite the world to “LIKE” the Eden Alternative. We’ve prepared a special surprise to help launch the Eden Alternative Facebook Page — we’re holding a YouTube video contest featuring performances from the Eden Idol competition at the 2010 Eden International Conference in Denver posted exclusively on our new Facebook Page.
Full Story »Eden Presents The ‘Mind Spirit Body’ Campaign
While covering the 2011 LeadingAge conference for ChangingAging.org I spent an afternoon interviewing Eden Alterantive’s CEO Chris Perna and two of Eden’s value-added partners: It’s Never 2 Late and WellAWARE Systems. Together, these three organizations presented a “Mind, Spirit and Body” exhibit at LeadingAge featuring a unique integration of technology and culture change. As part [...]
Full Story »#ProAging: Telestroke/Telemedicine Tests Show Excellent Cost & Health Benefits
The MKCREATIVEnonprofit BlogIn a wonderful synthesis of health care needs, patient choice, cost effectiveness, and beneficial outcomes, a recent report from The Mayo Clinic‘s ‘Telestroke’ program demonstrates the payoff of the pilot p…
Full Story »The Green House Workforce Model
Members of the newly opened Leonard Florence Center for Living in Chelsea, Mass. — the nation’s first urban Green House Project — joined the Green House team for a panel discussion at the 2011 LeadingAge conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Continue reading →
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Using Tech To Enhance Human Care, Not Replace It
A major theme at the 2011 LeadingAge conference in Washington, D.C., last week was the need to leverage innovative new technologies to help providers serve a rapidly growing aging population even as budgets are strained by the economic downturn. However, it’s critical that technology be used to enhance the human touch, not replace it, said conference exhibitor Chris Perna, CEO of Eden Alternative.
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News from Burbank Senior Artists Colony: “The Boyfriend” – L.A. to London!
Burbank Senior Artist Colony actors have been collaborating for months on an improv piece called “The Boyfriend.” The first chapter was birthed at BSAC, the second, a response, in London with David Slater of Entelechy Arts and his troupe of actors. … Continue reading →
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Long Term Living Honors Recipients on Top-10 Most Influential List
The Erickson School at UMBC and Long Term Living magazine held a reception at the LeadingAge 2011 conference to honor three of the recipients of Long Term Living’s Top 10 Most Influential People in Long Term Care awards: Dr. Bill Thomas as founder of the Eden Alternative and Green House Project, Bob Kramer, Founder and President, [...]
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Culture Change: It Works And It’s What People Want
I spent a couple hours on the exhibition floor of the LeadingAge 2011 conference interviewing vendors and leaders in long-term care about the growing influence of the culture change movement in the aging services industry. One of those leaders — Doug Pace, executive director of the Long-Term Quality Alliance — summed it up best: culture [...]
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