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 Cohoes, N.Y. Green House |
Where To Live As We AgeBy Susan Fine, Parade Magazine
Geriatrician Dr. Bill Thomas, a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, created The Green House Project with the hope of revolutionizing eldercare. In 2001, he wandered into the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation wearing a sweatshirt and Birkenstocks and shared his vision. The foundation was so impressed by his ideas it agreed to support a pilot program. Read more here. |
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AARP’s Guide to PillsGeriatrician Dr. William Thomas discusses the “AARP Guide To Pills,” which is a new reference book to help educate seniors on hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter medications. |
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 Dr. Bill Thomas |
New age of enlightenmentBy Mark Gould, The Guardian
Bill Thomas, the charismatic head of a global organisation dedicated to transforming care homes, tells Mark Gould what set him on his mission to eliminate the loneliness, helplessness and boredom that so often blights later life. Read more here. |
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Green House Projects Let Elders Age In HomesTalk of the Nation with Neal Conan, April 2, 2009 ยท In the first program of our ‘What Works’ series, we take a look at nursing homes. Dr. Bill Thomas spent some time in traditional, institutional nursing homes, and he didn’t like what he saw. In an interview with NPR’s Joe Shapiro in 2005, he remarked, “I believe that in the nursing home every year, thousands and thousands of people die of a broken heart. They die not so much because their organs fail, but because their grip on life has failed.” Read more here. |
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 Wall Street Journal |
Rising Challenger Takes on Elder-Care SystemBy Lucette Lagnado, Wall Street Journal PRINCTEON, N.J. — In the spring of 2001, Bill Thomas, dressed in his usual sweat shirt and Birkenstock sandals, entered the buttoned-down halls of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His message: Nursing homes need to be taken out of business. “It’s time to turn out the lights,” he declared. |
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 William Thomas | physician, farmer |
The Greening of AgingWilliam Thomas | physician, farmerBy Caroline Hsu, U.S. News and World Report It’s summer in upstate New York, the sun is shining, and it’s time to make hay. Bill Thomas, medical doctor, gentleman farmer, and deep thinker, heads out to take the year’s first cutting. His is a “mixed power” farm, which means that the tractor shares the load with a pair of massive 1-ton workhorses. Thomas takes the reins, clucks his tongue, and sets out across the field. |
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 A place to call home |
‘Green House’ Nursing Homes Expand as Communities Reinvent Elder CareBy Susan Dentzer, PBS News Hour Susan Dentzer reports on the “green houses” project, which seeks to reinvent traditional nursing home care and create close-knit communities of patients and caregivers. |
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 Dr. Bill Thomas |
‘Superstar’ on agingBy Tanika White, The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 3, 2008
When it comes to aging issues, he has been called a visionary, a culture-changer and a prophet. And last week, he became simply Professor Thomas. On Thursday, Thomas began teaching “Aging 100: You Say You Want a Revolution,” for freshmen at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Erickson School on Aging, Management and Policy. Read more here. |
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