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.
Today’s Smart Money Blog, part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, wrote about a “New Kind of Nursing Home“, The Green House Project. The author highlighted key aspects of The Green House Project transformation, including the change in architecture, … Continue reading →
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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.
Continue ReadingNew ChangingAging subscriber Mark Elliott posted a comment describing graduate research he is pursuing investigating the effect children have on the cognitive state of people living with Alzheimer’s. This sounds very exciting — Any suggestions for Mark? I’ll try to get Dr. Al Power and Dr. Richard Taylor to respond. Please share your thoughts below […]
Continue ReadingChangingAging with Dr. Bill Thomas A Sanctuary for Elderhood By Dr. Bill Thomas on November 10, 2011 | ChangingAging.org — Along the journey of creating, launching and now rapidly growing The Green House® Project there have been many important milestones. Building the first Green Houses in Tupelo, Miss. Getting the strong backing of RWJF . And most recently celebrating the […]
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Along the journey of creating, launching and now rapidly growing The Green House® Project there have been many important milestones. Building the first Green Houses in Tupelo, Miss. Getting the strong backing of RWJF . And most recently celebrating the opening of the 100th Green House home in West Orange, N.J., which garnered national attention through the The New York Times.
But perhaps the most exciting milestone for me personally happened in Rochester, N.Y., where St. John’s Home is opening the doors to the first Green Houses to be built in the community, indistinguishable from neighboring houses.
Continue ReadingDr. Bill Thomas is currently traveling through Europe visiting partners in the Eden International community and also reaching out to long term care officials and advocates across the continent. He asked me to feature a new blog from one of the organizations he met with that supports building community and home-based networks to help meet the needs of adults and elders.
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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.
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