A diverse group of experts recently spent hundreds of hours not just imagining, but observing and documenting... a nursing home.

Their objective was to understand the experience through the eyes of the residents. And their ultimate goal is to dream up –– and test –– ways to make it better.

This unusual Rhode Island-based project is called the Nursing Home of the Future. The future in question belongs to the Baby Boomers, who number 78 million nationwide and aren’t getting any younger. They are also unlikely to tolerate the restrictions and indignities of today’s nursing home environment.

Full Story: Group imagines — and works on — a nursing home designed with the input of patients Source: Providence Journal, November 14th, 2008 Author: Felice J. Freyer Added on November 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am, by Matt Mikula