“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” -Ronald Reagan Eating at a dinner table with friends and family is not only the quintessential portrait of Thanksgiving, but also an activity that can promote significant positive change. In … Continue reading →
Continue ReadingToday’s episode of WHYY’s morning live call-in show Radio Times is focused on the idea of “aging-in-place” and the movement away from large traditional nursing homes. Joining host Marty Moss-Coane is Dr. Bill Thomas, founder of The Green House Project.
Continue ReadingWHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
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.”
Continue ReadingChangingAging with Dr. Bill Thomas A Long Time To Be Gone By Dr. Bill Thomas on November 17, 2011 | ChangingAging.org — I am sitting at the kitchen table drinking in the sights, the sounds, the smell and the feel— of home. No place like it. Regular readers know that I have been “on the road” for the […]
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I am sitting at the kitchen table drinking in the sights, the sounds, the smell and the feel— of home. No place like it. Regular readers know that I have been “on the road” for the past three weeks and, last night, I returned home. It sure feels good.
Continue ReadingWhile the environment is a vast improvement to traditional nursing homes and fosters more opportunities for elders to be more active and independent than they could in a traditional setting, that is only one side of the coin. I think what sets the Green House model apart is the deep rooted mission and passion that all staff share to let elders rule.
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Dr. Bill Thomas is about to give the keynote address at the 2011 American Society of Consultant Pharmacists meeting in Phoenix.
Why are pharmacists champions of eldercare? They have the power to act as a safeguard against the extreme over-medication of older adults.
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