“'The Leonard Florence Center for Living is the nation’s first urban model Green House,'” Barry Berman said. ... Today there are 35 people living at the Leonard Florence Center [...]

"The non-profit has invested at least $81 million in its small house campuses, with a $12 million expansion underway that will see two rooms added to each house across its portfolio [...]

"In the Covid era, these alternatives are getting new attention. Research shows that Green House homes weathered the early pandemic far better than traditional facilities. The need for innovation and reform in [...]

"The authors acknowledge that the advantage of Green House homes comes from more than mere size.  They have the advantage of private bedrooms and bathrooms, limited ancillary staff, and [...]

“'The Lord has really blessed me in going to the Green House,' Dorothy Foot, an 83-year-old resident, said. 'The fact that every one of us has our own room [...]

"Because some people do choose to receive long-term care in nursing homes, we must reimagine how we can offer higher quality care in residential settings. That does not mean [...]

While research has shown small, neighborhood-style nursing homes with private rooms were less vulnerable to deadly COVID outbreaks, many in the industry have argued that there is no viable [...]

"Here’s what we know: We know that the model is exceptionally attractive to consumers. Occupancy at Green House is essentially 100%. We know that academicians have studied the model [...]

My hope would be that this is a profound wake-up call and an opportunity for policy makers, regulators and society at large to take a look and see that [...]

Ninety-five percent of Green House homes reported zero cases COVID-19 among residents or staff, according to a study of coronavirus data gathered from February 1, 2020 through May 31, [...]

Researchers gathered coronavirus data from more than 3,200 seniors residing in 300 Green House homes between Feb. 1 and May 31. They found that COVID-19 cases remained low among [...]

Replace aging and outdated facilities, particularly in low-income communities. Moving forward, nursing homes and other institutional settings should be smaller, with single-occupancy rooms and low staff-to-resident ratios (see, for [...]

Ryan recently joined SNN’s “Rethink” podcast to discuss the challenges of turning Green House dreams into reality, as well as to issue a warning that the nursing home industry [...]

We can also embrace an alternative model, called the Green House Model, where instead of housing, say, 240 people in a big tower, you have individual homes with about [...]

The advantages of thinking smaller can be illustrated by the Green House Project, a national organization founded in 2003 that has created a network of 300 intimately scaled residential [...]

As part of the Green House Project, a network of clinicians and caregiving executives who are creating (or restoring) high‐quality environments and services for older adults, Berman understood immediately [...]

We have ageism and we have racism and that has had a tremendous impact on what we’re seeing. As a society we have accepted what some call warehousing. We [...]

Alternative designs have been in the works, such as the Green House Project, founded by innovator and anti-ageism advocate Dr. Bill Thomas. The nonprofit organization facilitates development and operation [...]

"When I think of good infection control, I think this model was made for this moment,'” said Susan Ryan, senior director of the Green House Project, adding that home [...]

Over the last decade, the medical practice of elder care has come to recognize the importance of well-designed housing as foundational to the well-being of the elderly. Leading geriatrics [...]

What design/architecture trend in senior living design do you think is right for the sector? Dillard: "'Compartmentalization’” used to be a dirty word in senior living communities. Now, it [...]

And many advocates tout the Green House model, a small-homes approach in which 10 to 12 residents get their own private rooms and bathrooms with access to an open [...]

Simpson was in particular discussing the development of cottage-style nursing home developments, a model exemplified by the Green House Project — a non-profit that supports the construction of post-acute [...]

Green House homes are perhaps the ideal setting in which Elders live meaningful lives, where staff are empowered to provide high quality care, and given their physical design and [...]

Although the coronavirus has ravaged many long-term care facilities, small group homes are seeing success in minimizing effects of the virus. To date, at the two St. John's Penfield [...]