“Meaningful Life, Meaningful Engagement” was a most appropriate theme this year for the 5th Annual Green House Meeting and Celebration! Over 160 people representing Green House home adopters from Alaska to Florida spent three days learning, laughing, building relationships, sharing … Continue reading →
Continue ReadingOn September 7, 2012, WGVU a local NPR affiliate in Michigan interviewed Dr. Bill Thomas, and Porter Hills CEO, Ingrid Weaver, about The Green House Project. They discuss how the model transforms the philosophy, organizational design and environment of traditional long term care, radically shifting the paradigm of aging!
Continue ReadingAt the end of May 2007, my late friend Bob Siegel and I had a conversation about Atul Gawande’s “Rethinking Old Age” op-ed in the New York Times.
Continue ReadingJoin us Sept. 6-7 for a livestream video broadcast from the 5th Annual Green House Meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich. All livestream videos available on demand after broadcast. Click here to watch. Continue reading →
Continue ReadingCheck out the ChangingAging Blogstream Weekly Roundup for May 5, 2012. Read the top news and blog posts on aging from around the globe featuring updates from Dr. Bill Thomas and ChangingAging Blogstream contributors.
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Continue ReadingThe Green House Project isn’t just making waves in the U.S. The model’s innovative transformation of nursing home care was the subject of a British Parliamentary hearing this week on the future of caregiving in the UK. A British researcher who recently visited the United States testified before the Parliament Health Committee Tuesday, Jan. 10, that Britain should look at the Green House model as the future of nursing home care.
Continue ReadingIn a nutshell, people define their culture and thus, people define its evolution.
In imagining the future of elder care in a society that isn’t getting any younger, and seeking out the visionaries who’re blazing the path to a new approach, the term culture change comes up a lot.
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