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The Green House Project is an American national non-profit organization dedicated to creating alternative living environments to traditional nursing home care facilities. The project creates “caring homes for meaningful lives” for elders〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thegreenhouseproject.org/green-house-model/overview )〕 where residents have private rooms and baths, can move freely through the home, build deep knowing relationships with each other more and even participate in preparing their own meals. It is based on a philosophy seeking to reverse the “enforced dependency” of life in a traditional nursing home by creating small intentional communities of 7-10 elders designed to foster late-life development and growth. Residents of Green House Project homes have shown “increased reports of mobility and social interaction, and fewer reports of weight loss and depression” compared with those living in traditional nursing home facilities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rwjf.org/vulnerablepopulations/product.jsp?id=63828 )〕 ==History== The project was first developed by Steve McAlilly, CEO of Mississippi Methodist Senior Services, and by geriatrician William H. Thomas (physician) in 2003, with the goal of personalizing elder care by redesigning nursing homes “from scratch” to provide residents more privacy and control over their lives. McAlilly was preparing to demolish the old 'big box' nursing home and build another when he had a creative idea: call up Bill Thomas and ask what he'd do to reinvent care for the frail elderly. Thomas is an international authority on elder care and has authored four books on the subject. In the early 1990s, Thomas and his wife, Jude Thomas, founded the (Eden Alternative ), now a global nonprofit organization that aims to deinstitutionalize long term care facilities by changing the culture of the typical nursing home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.edenalt.org/about-the-eden-alternative )〕 Recognizing that nursing homes were “aging faster than the people living inside them,” Thomas later created The Green House Project with the goal of replacing the institutional nursing home model with small intentional communities where elders and staff focus on living full and vibrant lives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://changingaging.org/about/ )〕 In 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced a five-year, $10 million grant for The Green House Project across the United States. NCB Capital Impact currently administers The Green House Project and will continue to do so beyond the current five-year grant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ncbcapitalimpact.org/ )〕 The first Green House Project home was constructed in 2003 in Tupelo, Mississippi. NCB Capital Impact set a goal to complete 50 houses by 2010; that goal was reached in December 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rwjf.org/vulnerablepopulations/product.jsp?id=28231 )〕 As of 2011, there are 99 Green House Project homes on 43 campuses in 27 states.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thegreenhouseproject.org/green-house-model/find-home )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Green House Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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