While nearly everyone says that they want to stay at home until they die, not everyone can. And not everyone should. Sometimes, living at home can mean loneliness, helplessness, and boredom. Another sort of setting can be more like what home should be than the places people have been living.
Some successful solutions will be explored in the second of the pre-competition events leading to the UWM Senior Housing Ideas Competition tonight at 6:30 pm, Zelazo Hall. (Our Expanding Housing Options Summit was the first.)
Dr. William Thomas, founder of the Eden Alternative (EA), will speak. If you don't know about the EA, it's a movement to revolutionize the way people live, especially older adults in the places we've been calling nursing homes.
According to the EA website,
We create coalitions of people and organizations that are committed to creating better social and physical environments for people. We are dedicated to helping others create enlivening environments and the elimination of the plagues of Loneliness, Helplessness, and Boredom. We are dedicated to helping people grow.
The core concept of The Eden Alternative™ is strikingly simple. We must teach ourselves to see the environments as habitats for human beings rather than facilities for the frail and elderly. We must learn what Mother Nature has to teach us about the creation of vibrant, vigorous habitats.
Living in a vital community. Isn't that what we all want?
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