When the Green House model was first implemented in 2003, it was still very much an experiment based on the observations and theories of Bill and Jude Thomas and their colleagues. While the core values of real home, meaningful life, [...]

From the very beginning, education and training have been at the center of the Green House movement. It’s not enough to build small homes; creating a truly elder-directed environment also requires a solid educational foundation for both caregivers and organizational [...]

The Green House model was initially developed as a replacement for traditional long-term nursing homes, but partners quickly realized that the core values of Real Home, Meaningful Life, and Empowered Staff could apply to multiple other services historically provided in [...]

The Green House Project received a significant boost in 2006 when the first academic research into the model’s efficacy by Judith Rabig, Bill Thomas, Rosalie Kane, Lois Cutler, and Steve McAlilly was published in The Gerontologist. The article, “Radical Redesign [...]

When Methodist Senior Services opened those first Green House homes in 2023, the organization was taking a major leap of faith: The concept was just two years old and had never before been operationalized. The long-term care sector is certainly [...]