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Article: `Green Houses' an alternative to traditional nursing homes.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2005
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Byline: Bob Moos
TUPELO, Miss. _ Dr. Bill Thomas is on a mission to close every nursing home in America.
"Most nursing homes are sad and lonely places," the Harvard-educated geriatrician said. "Our elders deserve better. They need places where they can enjoy life and grow."
The founder of the Green House Project has a plan for reinventing how this country cares for frail, older adults.
Residents of the Franks House in Tupelo, Miss., sit down to home-cooked meals. Gone will be the large nursing homes that treat residents like hospital patients. Instead, there will be "Green Houses" for 10 to 12 elders who live like a family.
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