The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is investing fifteen-million dollars into a creative alternative to nursing homes. Green Houses aim to replace large nursing homes with small, homelike facilitates for ten to twelve residents. There are presently forty-one Green Houses in ten states; the goal is to have them in all fifty states.
Jane Lowe, [...]

At Hillcrest Manor in Washington, residents are free to eat at their leisure, keep a garden, sing, or whatever else their hearts desire. Hillcrest Manor is a nursing home facility part of the program known as Eden Alternative – a non-profit organization that helps reshape the aging process in America. The concept was founded [...]