What you described is really a premier example of institutional long-term care, where life is really governed by the staff and not by the people living there. Does that capsule pretty well describe the nursing home where you went to work after med school?ĭr. WILLIAM THOMAS (Founder, The Green House Project): Glad to be with you, Neal.ĬONAN: And let's start with that problem. Nice to have you on the program today.ĭr. It's called The Green House Project, and he joins us now from the studios at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He's the brains behind the reinvention of the nursing home. William Thomas is a geriatrician who decided we can do better. Even at their best, nursing homes remain institutions - with no privacy, bright lights, hospital food, disinfectant, linoleum and boredom.ĭr. Very few of us would choose to live in one, but that's where many thousands of frail elderly people find themselves. That phrase itself might have set off a shudder. Once a month, we'll address a problem and find at least one person who has had real, measurable success in solving it, and we begin with nursing homes. Not all problems are so easy, and that's where we want to focus our new series called What Works.
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