PURPOSE We present the concept of the Green House, articulated by William Thomas as a radically changed, "deinstitutionalized" nursing home well before its first implementation, and we describe and discuss implications from the first Green Houses in Tupelo, Mississippi. DESIGN AND METHODS Green Houses are small, self-contained houses for 10 or fewer elders, each with private rooms and full ba...

Belfast in 1780 was a town of 13,000 people but it was already expanding rapidly. There was a small middle class often inter-related and certainly knowing each other well and a large working class. Many of the latter had come in from rural areas in search of work and had very poor living conditions indeed. The better off could afford nursing at home when ill but the sick poor could hope for lit...

groups of individuals are institutionalized for the remainder of their lives: convicted murderers and frail older adults. Deinstitutionalization movements have liberated those who traditionally require care and services. Orphanages, psychiatric hospitals, state schools, and institutions for individuals who are developmentally disabled have all been replaced by more humane, community-based treat...

In medical settings in Japan, where 25% of the total population is aged ≥65 years, an emphasis has been placed on homecare. Accordingly, nurses face the urgent task of interacting effectively with patients’ families, who are in a position to provide care for patients, in addition to the patients themselves. The aim of the present study was to obtain suggestions for continuing education that pro...

Before World War II 40% of patient visits were conducted in the home. Since then the number of house calls by physicians had been decreasing until 1998 when payment restructuring improved reimbursement. As the article by Peterson et al points out, the number of patients receiving house calls has increased in recent years, yet the number of physicians making house calls has decreased. This may b...

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of a small-house nursing home model, THE GREEN HOUSE (GH), on residents’ reported outcomes and quality of care. DESIGN: Two-year longitudinal quasi-experimental study comparing GH residents with residents at two comparison sites using data collected at baseline and three follow-up intervals. SETTING: Four 10-person GHs, the sponsoring nursing home for those ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of a small-house nursing home model, THE GREEN HOUSE (GH), on residents' reported outcomes and quality of care. DESIGN Two-year longitudinal quasi-experimental study comparing GH residents with residents at two comparison sites using data collected at baseline and three follow-up intervals. SETTING Four 10-person GHs, the sponsoring nursing home for those...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.018 0003-3472/© 2015 The Authors. Published on behalf of license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd Parental care is associated with costs. Communal offspring care in species with altricial young may reduce the costs for a parent, but it comes with a risk of exploitation, jeopardizing the evolution of stable cooperation. Female house mice c...

BACKGROUND While most studies focused solely on the comparison between informal caregivers and non-caregivers, little is known about the relation between caregiving time or caregiving activities and lifestyle factors. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether informal caregiving time and type of caregiving activities are associated with body mass index (BMI) and the frequency of sporti...