Culture Change
On the Road Again…
I just landed in Little Rock, Arkansas, where I’ll be giving a 2-day seminar on the experiential approach to dementia–Day 1 as an intensive workshop for 350 care professionals and Day 2 as a deeper, train-the-trainer look into the model. … Continue reading →
Full Story »Ideas on LinkedIn
Jim writes… As we explore or journey to Eden I can’t help but think we are still putting our seniors “out to pasture”. I am old enough to remember when grandparents were an integral part of daily life in the home of their children. They were the family members who needed help, but also shared [...]
Full Story »Portrait of a Green House Elder
The latest from The Green House Project blog: Green House homes are just that — homes. In those homes live people — not “residents” or “patients” — of all ages and abilities. Many of the people who live in Green House homes are elders of their families and communities and the Green House model is [...]
Full Story »It Starts Here
Lately I’ve been writing about the impending collision between the Post War generation (often referred to as the “Boomers”) and the Iron Law of Aging. Let’s review that Iron Law… Every day we all wake up one day older. The problem is that the generation that lionized youth, the generation that once pledged to “never [...]
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Yasi Slams into Australia
Changing Aging has a large readership and many friends in Australia. The country has been beset by a calamity of flooding and is now in the bulls-eye of a monster cyclone. In Cairns and Townsville, vast swathes of both cities are without power, including evacuation centres, leaving residents to wait out the maelstrom in the [...]
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Gay Elders Going Back in the Closet
Steve Gurney sends word of an important event: Gen Silent is the new LGBT documentary that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their lives to survive in the care system. They put a face on what experts in the film call an epidemic: gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender seniors so afraid of discrimination [...]
Full Story »More on the Australian Cyclone
It is hard to imagine a storm of this size… TOWNSVILLE, Australia, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Australia evacuated thousands of people from its northeast coast on Tuesday as a cyclone rivalling Hurricane Katrina bore down on tourism towns and rural communities, with officials saying it could even threaten areas deep inland that were ruined by [...]
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Ingredients for Excitement, Recipes for Meaning
From The Green House Project Blog: Food is pleasure. Preparing it, smelling it and eating it, regardless of our dining rituals, food brings meaning to our lives and defines a part of our individuality. The Green House Model protects this philosophy through teaching the importance of simple pleasures and knowing relationships for creating meaning and [...]
Full Story »Welcome Students
A note to regular readers of changing aging, the Erickson School has launched a new cohort of Masters students and you will probably see some of them hanging around in the comments. Please give them a nice changing aging welcome. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]
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Flooding Down Under
It is far too easy for those who are safe and warm in their own homes to forget about the suffering of others, especially when the people concerned live very far away. Australia is just now beginning to recover from epic — millennial— flooding that has devastated significant portions of the eastern part of the [...]
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Cyclone Bianca
Yesterday we updated the status of Australians recovering from devastating East Coast floods. Then this popped up on my screen. Residents of the northwest, known as the Pilbara, weathered gales and downpours, although the worst of the storm held well out at sea. They seem to have missed the worst of it, though south west [...]
Full Story »The Conversation Continues: Depression Late in Life
Did you miss the 2010 Green House Project Meeting and Celebration in Albany, NY? Don’t worry, you can join us as we continue the conversations started at last year’s Meeting and help us prepare for the upcoming 2011 meeting. The conversation continues at The Green House Blog, where we will be featuring weekly video highlights [...]
Full Story »We are the Story and its Teller
I’ve been thinking about how to change aging for quite a while now and the work still seems vital and important to me. I am, by nature, an optimist and it seems to me that the stars are aligning for new, exciting and valuable platform for driving change. Jude and I started the Eden Alternative [...]
Full Story »Dr. Bill Talks Green Houses for People
If you’re in the Baltimore NPR listening area, tune into 88.1 WYPR at about 920 a.m. today to catch an interview with Dr. Bill Thomas discussing the building of Maryland’s first Green House Project residences. GEDCO, a coalition of community and faith-based organizations, broke ground Jan. 7 on their Green House Project at Stadium Place [...]
Full Story »Good News from Canada
Kathleen Burnett is the Eden Alternative coordinator for Eastern Canada, she writes in to say… I’m please to announce that Dr. Brian Steeves has accepted the appointment as an Eden Alternative Mentor for Eastern Canada. Brian is devoted to a family medical practice and cares for five generations. His work caring for people in a [...]
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Live Grow Thrive: Green House Model Promotes Growth
Posted without comment (nuff said): AARP Bulletin | January 10, 2011 By Sally Abrahms Jan Cassidy Wood and her siblings knew that if their older brother Jack Cassidy ever needed long-term nursing care, it would fall to them to find it. He was unmarried and lived alone, and since childhood has had serious health issues. [...]
Full Story »Stadium Place: Maryland’s First Green House Project
I shot a few videos Friday while attending the groundbreaking for Maryland’s first Green House Project residence at Stadium Place in Baltimore. Assembled for the ceremonial first shovel and cornerstone laying was an impressive array of Baltimore City elected officials, business and philanthropic leaders, including Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake, City Council President Jack Young and [...]
Full Story »Watch GEDCO Green House Groundbreaking Live
Watch The GREEN HOUSE Residences at Stadium Place Groundbreaking live! On Friday, Jan. 7, at 1 p.m. go to www.GEDCO.ORG and click on “Watch Us Live” to view the groundbreaking ceremony. Dr. Bill Thomas will be a featured speaker with guests including Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and members of Baltimore’s state legislative delegation. [...]
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Green House Project Breaks Ground in Maryland
Tomorrow is a big day for the Green House Project in Maryland — after several years of hard work by Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation (GOVANS), they are breaking ground to build the state’s first Green House Project homes on the grounds of Baltimore’s old Memorial Stadium. The ground breaking ceremony will also be broadcast live [...]
Full Story »Eden Moves HQ to New York
The Eden Alternative is moving its headquarters from Texas to Rochester, NY. Kudos to new Eden CEO Christopher Perna. And double kudos to the Rochester Biz Journal for posting an in depth report on Eden’s move and central role in the culture change movement: Eden Alternative moves east The Eden Alternative plans to move its [...]
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