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Martin Bayne is a blogger and advocate for assisted living who suffers from Parkinson's disease. Bayne is a former journalist and CEO of New York Long Term Care Brokers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile: Martin Bayne )〕 After the onset of Parkinson's disease, he dedicated his time to supporting the elderly and advocating retirement home and assisted living reform.〔 Bayne has been featured on NPR, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.〔 ==Early Life and Background== Martin Bayne was born in Binghamton, New York in 1950.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Martin Bayne )〕 From October, 1972 to July, 1976 Bayne trained as a monk at Shasta Abbey, a Soto Zen Buddhist monastery in Mt. Shasta, California. He attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and earned his bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary sciences in 1979.〔 Afterward, he earned his Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a thesis focusing on accelerated production of human interferon from PolyI-PolyC induced fibroblasts.〔 Bayne began his career as a mutual fund broker, and worked for nearly a decade before starting his publication of ''Mr. Long Term Care'', a newsletter devoted to long term healthcare insurance and support for those needing care services.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Getting you the Best available Long Term Care insurance information is the reason we have created this site. )〕 He also founded New York Long Term Care Brokers in 1991, which became one of the largest insurance companies for long term care coverage in the United States.〔 Bayne was diagnosed with young onset Parkinson's disease in 1995 at the age of 45.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Long-Term Care's Story - Part 1 )〕 Several years later at the age of 53, he began staying at an assisted living facility. There, he received first-hand experience of the challenges that face residents in assisted living homes. This prompted Bayne to start his blog, ''The Voice of Aging Boomers'', where he writes about his experiences and advocates reform of assisted living facilities, including improved handicap accessibility, social interaction, and available equipment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MAY 2030 )〕 Martin Bayne is also the author of ''Martin Bayne on Turning the Stream of Compassion'', and has published an article on assisted living in Health Affairs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Room With A Grim View: The ‘Ambient Despair’ That Marks Life In Assisted Living )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martin Bayne on Turning the Stream of Compassion Within )〕 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「Martin Bayne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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