“Our energy needs to be around how to replace nursing homes. Not replace the building but replace the idea that older people can be taken away and put into an institution,” Dr. Thomas recalls saying. He described his vision of homelike places where elderly residents could gather, dine together and sit before a blazing fire.”
This concept rang true when proposed to the portfolio overseer for the country’s fourth-largest philanthropy foundation. Who is, by the way, now putting considerable resources behind the idea to replace large nursing home institutions with “smaller, homelike facilities”. Their hope is to have these types of institutions in all 50 states soon.
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