Policy Change to Put the Home Back Into Nursing Homes
"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 Big Idea Behind A New Model Of Small Nursing Homes
“'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 [...]
Moving on from COVID-19 in Long-Term Care
"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 [...]
Minimum staffing requirements, higher Medicaid funding for nursing home workforce highlight new bill
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 [...]
How a Nursing Home Developer Made Green Houses Work: ‘It’s Not Hard to Pencil Out’
"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 [...]
Reimagining Elder Care: The Green House Project
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 [...]
The Green House Model: COVID-19 Outcomes
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, [...]
Approximately 95% of Green House homes have reported zero cases COVID-19 among residents or staff: study
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 [...]
Building The Long-Term Care System Of The Future: Will The COVID-19 Nursing Home Tragedies Lead To Real Reform?
Replace aging and outdated facilities, particularly in low-income communities.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 [...]
Green House Senior Director: If Nursing Homes Can’t Embrace Change Post-COVID, ‘Shame on Us’
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 [...]
The post-pandemic future: We will stop warehousing older people in care homes
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 [...]
Getting Old Needs a New Look
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 [...]
The Truest Cyborg I Know: A high-tech home built specifically for people living with ALS offers a new way to conceive of independence.
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 [...]
Why the future of elder care may be fewer nursing homes
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 [...]
Post-Pandemic: Where Will Older Retirees Want To Live?
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 [...]
How Family-Style Nursing Homes Are Better Weathering the Pandemic
"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 [...]
From our house to “God’s house”
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 [...]
An Industry Ripe For Innovation
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 [...]
COVID-19 devastated nursing homes — here are safer, more cost-effective options
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 [...]
To Build the Next Generation of Nursing Homes, Players May Need to Live with Lower Profits
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 [...]
Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Resident and Staff Cases and Deaths
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 [...]
Keeping the Pandemic at Bay in Small Group Nursing Homes
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 [...]
Nontraditional nursing homes have almost no coronavirus cases. Why aren’t they more widespread?
The [Green House] model has been praised by academics and doctors and seems far better suited than traditional facilities to stave off the spread of infection and the isolation [...]
What Can Be Done To Make Nursing Homes Safer
Well, one idea that's got a lot of currency now has been around for nearly 20 years. It's called the Green House Project. These are nursing homes with an [...]
Editorial: Seniors deserve a life worth living during the COVID-19 pandemic
When—and if—institutionalized care becomes necessary, there are alternatives to warehousing in large buildings. The innovative Green House Project, for example, provides individual “houses” where small groups of 10 to [...]