Monthly Archives: September 2010

The Green House Project Conference Streaming Live!

Did you miss Dr. Bill Thomas’ keynote speech streamed live from the Green House Project annual conference? Don’t worry, you can replay it below! Stay tuned for special live-streamed panels featuring elders and shahbazim viewable at The Green House Project blog: September 29th @ 4:15-5:15p EDT Elders Rule! Panel of Elders Talk about a Life [...]

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News Feeder Fever

Where do you get your daily dose of news online? Do you use an RSS feed reader, such as Google Reader? Do you bookmark your favorite sites and navigate to them daily? Do you get all the news you need from your friends on Facebook? Or, like me, do you do all the above plus [...]

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Person-Centered Culture Change Sweeps Rhode Island

Person-centered care advocates in Rhode Island have got friends in high places! Rhode Island’s state legislature recently passed sweeping culture change legislation that opens the door to building Green House Project nursing homes and strongly promotes person-centered long term care. A local Public Television program, State TV, produced an eight-part special documenting passage of the [...]

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Generations Divided: Survivor’s Ageist Stunt

Above is the cast from last night’s premier of “Survivor: Nicaragua”, the reality TV show credited with sparking a nauseating, yet addictive, reality-television revolution in the U.S. After pitting teams in the previous 20 seasons based on such tasteless gimmicks as gender and even race, this season features the “Battle of the Ages” with 10 “aged” [...]

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Doc Shot in Baltimore Over Mother’s Care

I don’t want to sensationalize what sounds like a horrible situation, but I live in Baltimore and am getting first-hand text messages and Twitter updates regarding the shooting of a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Two close friends of mine are interning at Hopkins and are currently in lockdown. Justin Fenton of the Baltimore Sun [...]

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