Will the Nursing Home of the Future be an Actual Home?

The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating a movement aimed at completely rethinking how we age — and where.

 
Bill Thomas remembers the moment his career shifted. It was in 1991 and he was a young emergency room doctor, working a side job at a nursing home, when he was asked to see an older resident. The two struck up a conversation when she startled him with a confession: She was lonely.

It was the first time Thomas really thought about what life inside a nursing home was like for the residents. The focus was on keeping her fed, giving her shelter and ensuring she took her medications. She was surrounded by people, but couldn’t make the kind of meaningful connections that make life worth living.

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