NPR’s Joseph Shapiro reports: There’s one age group that’s going into nursing homes at a higher rate. And it’s not the elderly. Young people ages 31 to 64 now make up 14 percent of the nursing home population, an analysis of federal data from the Department of Health and Human Services by NPR’s Investigative Unit […]
Continue ReadingEquipped only with inexpensive HD Flip Camcorders, a few intrepid staffers for the Green House® Project support team fanned out during their recent 2010 Annual Conference and Celebration to capture some thoughts and stories from the Shahbaz, Guides and other attendees from the Green House® movement. Here are a few compilations I pulled together from […]
Continue ReadingI’m running an occasional series of posts concerning the “nursing home-ification” of American culture. This is also the theme of a novel I have just finished. The use of automatic weapons to prevent people from drinking unpasteurized milk represents a dramatic expansion of the very kind of paternalism which has long marked life inside nursing […]
Continue ReadingBREAKING NEWS — One of the remarkable outtakes from Provider Magazine’s May cover story “Culture Change Goes Main Stream,” is the dramatic increase of awareness of the culture change movement in recent years. In 2005, nearly three-quarters of health care opinion leaders surveyed by the Commonwealth Fund were unfamiliar with the concept of “culture change,” […]
Continue ReadingThe popular misconception is that the only “problems” within aging services are related to nursing homes. This falsehood reminds me of the ancient royal concept of the “whipping boy.” I sometimes think that all of the sins and defects of the system are loaded onto nursing homes so that other parts of the system can […]
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