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.
A long life ought to entitle one to a dignified old age. We may not be able to cure diseases such as Alzheimer’s but we can offer our elders a life that is rich with kindness, patience, encouragement and appreciation. The creation of such a life is just what Green House homes were designed to do.
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The nation’s leading organization advocating on behalf of consumers in the long term care arena held a day-long live-chat on Facebook last Friday all about one of ChangingAging.org’s favorite topics — Long Term Care Ombudsmen.
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At its core social media is not about technology, it’s about story-telling — or perhaps more accurately “story-sharing” — and the key to good story telling is to achieve emotional impact. Take for example social media created using Google Street View images. Google Street View (GSV) cars have been canvassing the roads of more than […]
Continue ReadingA first-of-its-kind study finds that the nation’s largest for-profit nursing home chains deliver significantly lower quality of care than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes due primarily to reduced staffing.
The analysis by the University of California San Francisco comes as no surprise to culture change advocates and organizations working to improve the quality of care in nursing homes. The study documents the nation’s 10-largest for-profit nursing home chains’ strategies to cut costs by reducing staffing, which resulted in “significantly lower quality of care.”
Continue ReadingWhen one 15 year old girl becomes angry with her parents she might slam the door to her room. The cause of the argument remains private and is quickly forgotten by all involved. It is a different thing when tens of millions of adolescents begin to “question authority” en masse.
Continue ReadingWhen I was in elementary school the idea of of “non-fiction” writing really confused me. I got that fiction consisted of “stories that people just made up.” What seemed strange is that the librarian would refer to stuff that was supposed to be true as “non-fiction.” This seemed, to me, as odd as someone getting on the witness stand and promising to make statments that are “not-lies.”
Continue ReadingThis is for all our good friends who are on the road for the holidays…
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