The green houses project : remaking elder care in America / produced, edited and narrated by Beverly Baroff.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Baroff, Beverly., Producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Long-term care facilities.

Nursing homes.

Older people--Care--United States.

Older people.

Older people--Institutional care--United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (25 min.).

Place of Publication:

Millis, MA : Aquarius Health Care Media, 2003.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

The time has come to reinvent the long-term care environment for the 21st century. The growing numbers of elderly in America and around the world demand and expect change. It is clear that we must alter the way we think about, regulate and deliver services to people who are frail, disabled or elderly. We must abolish the widespread practice of institutionalizing the frail, the chronically ill and the elderly among us. However, before we can begin to dismantle the policies, procedures and even the buildings that defined the facility-based era of long-term care we must develop proven alternatives to the status quo. The Green House Project is an attempt to design, build and test a radically new approach to residential long-term care for the elderly. It is founded on the idea that the physical and social environments in which we deliver long-term care can and should be warm, smart, and green.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 13, 2012).

OCLC:

808842241