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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Most American nursing homes spend far too much time treating chronic diseases and too little time providing compassionate care, asserts the author, a physician and former director of the Chase Memorial Nursing Home. In 1991, Thomas decided to try a different approach to life for the 80 residents of this upstate New York facility?an approach he calls the Eden Alternative. Motivated by a desire to enrich the home's physical and social environment, the staff introduced hundreds of indoor plants, 80 parakeets, dogs, cats, and other living things to share life with residents. Lawns became vegetable gardens, tended by staff and residents. A day-care center, after-school programs, and a summer camp brought children into the home. This book is an inspiring account of Edenizing this particular home, emphasizing the benefits to residents and staff. Although it offers how-to steps for humanizing homes elsewhere, it lacks the specifics needed to help the Eden Alternative succeed in larger, urban nursing facilities and other settings. Also not covered are difficulties this approach may present (e.g., demented residents who may be frightened of animals). For strong aging collections.?Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
There is at last an alternative for those who see nursing homes as little more than glorified hospitals. Dr. Thomas, a nursing home medical director in upstate New York, offers the Eden Alternative in which the loneliness, helplessness, and boredom of life in a conventional facility are obliterated and "care" is substituted for superficial "treatment." Thomas provides frighteningly simple methods for dropping long-held assumptions about nursing homes and turning them into places where residents can have reasons to live. He replaces the overmedication, treatment plans, and restricted diets of traditional homes with gardens, pets, plants, and children. His book gives concrete plans for implementing the Eden Alternative, assesses and debunks its risks, and suggests methods to empower nursing home staff, who, in turn, empower their residents. The 10 Eden Principles can be enacted by any facility that desires to help the elderly reconnect with the world and put the "home" back into nursing home. This book offers a splendid solution for those who feel that death might be the best alternative to old age. A provocative, inspiring, hopeful work. Patricia Hassler
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Most American nursing homes spend far too much time treating chronic diseases and too little time providing compassionate care, asserts the author, a physician and former director of the Chase Memorial Nursing Home. In 1991, Thomas decided to try a different approach to life for the 80 residents of this upstate New York facility?an approach he calls the Eden Alternative. Motivated by a desire to enrich the home's physical and social environment, the staff introduced hundreds of indoor plants, 80 parakeets, dogs, cats, and other living things to share life with residents. Lawns became vegetable gardens, tended by staff and residents. A day-care center, after-school programs, and a summer camp brought children into the home. This book is an inspiring account of Edenizing this particular home, emphasizing the benefits to residents and staff. Although it offers how-to steps for humanizing homes elsewhere, it lacks the specifics needed to help the Eden Alternative succeed in larger, urban nursing facilities and other settings. Also not covered are difficulties this approach may present (e.g., demented residents who may be frightened of animals). For strong aging collections.?Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
There is at last an alternative for those who see nursing homes as little more than glorified hospitals. Dr. Thomas, a nursing home medical director in upstate New York, offers the Eden Alternative in which the loneliness, helplessness, and boredom of life in a conventional facility are obliterated and "care" is substituted for superficial "treatment." Thomas provides frighteningly simple methods for dropping long-held assumptions about nursing homes and turning them into places where residents can have reasons to live. He replaces the overmedication, treatment plans, and restricted diets of traditional homes with gardens, pets, plants, and children. His book gives concrete plans for implementing the Eden Alternative, assesses and debunks its risks, and suggests methods to empower nursing home staff, who, in turn, empower their residents. The 10 Eden Principles can be enacted by any facility that desires to help the elderly reconnect with the world and put the "home" back into nursing home. This book offers a splendid solution for those who feel that death might be the best alternative to old age. A provocative, inspiring, hopeful work. Patricia Hassler
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