Terry Gross Interviews ChangingAging Advocate Martin Bayne on Fresh Air
Martin Bayne, former reporter and Zen monk, longtime culture change advocate and friend of Dr. Bill Thomas, has been catapulted onto the national stage after publishing a gut-wrenching account of life in assisted living and nursing homes where he has lived the past decade after being diagnosed with young-onset Parkinsons at age 53.
Martin’s story was published this summer in Health Affairs and the The Washington Post and last week NPR’s Terry Gross interviewed him on Fresh Air. As an observer-advocate, Martin’s writing exposes the loss of identity and control that is emblematic of living in institutions which he described as being operated by “a top-down management team whose initial goal seems to be to strip us of our autonomy.”
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