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LiveBlogging Green House Project Policy Briefing

February 8, 2013 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released results from a pilot study showing that Green House project homes save Medicare $1,300 to $2,300 per home resident annually.

Baltimore Book Reading Features Post-Apocalyptic Novel With New Vision For Old Age

August 31, 2012 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

William H. Thomas, a Harvard-trained physician, award-winning social activist, visionary eldercare reformer, mixed-power farmer, musician, playwright and author, brings his vision for a new old age to Baltimore with a public reading of his new novel Tribes of Eden, hosted by GEDCO at Stadium Place Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m.

Woodland Park (VMRC) Green House Homes Update: August 26, 2012

August 26, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

Construction of the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community Green House Homes at Woodland Park is moving along. On two of the buildings the outside stonework will be completed soon. The stonework was so lovely that I shot a close-up with my camera. Lot…

Person-Centered Regulations Discussed at Pioneer Network 2012

August 10, 2012 | Melissa Honig, The Green House Project Blog

The Pioneer Network's National Conference in Jacksonville, FL, challenged participants to build a bridge to a new culture of aging. Skip Gregory, retired Bureau Chief at the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) in Florida, is building …Th…

Tribes of Eden Book Club at Pioneer Network’s 2012 National Conference

August 7, 2012 | Mary Hopfner-Thomas, The Green House Project Blog

It’s not often that you get the chance to hear the author read excerpts from their book, but that was the case Tuesday as Dr. Bill Thomas discussed his latest novel, The Tribes of Eden. The lucky audience was attendees at the Pioneer Network 2012 National Conference. The book is set in the near future after the utter collapse of society. It introduces a new vision of old age to counter ageist views that hinder our efforts to improve care for older adults.

Woodland Park Green Houses: On the Inside, June 11, 2012

June 18, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

The VMRC Green Houses at Woodland Park are beginning to look like real houses with roofs, windows, and doors. Now much of the construction has moved indoors. This time when I visited, Mr. Marvin Nisely, who supervises the construction at Virginia …

Woodland Park Green Houses Have Roofs! June 3, 2012

June 6, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

Last weekend I spent the day with my parents at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. On a beautiful Shenandoah Valley late spring day, we walked around near the construction site and shot these pictures of the Green Houses slowly turning into Gre…

Woodland Park Green House Walls are Rising – April 28, 2012

May 11, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

The walls continue to rise above the foundations at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. To learn more please read these posts about Woodland Park Green House Homes, a new community at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. Woodland Park Green Ho…

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