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mark, who has Parkinson’s disease. “The people are great. They treat me like a king. The food is good. The place is so clean. … You’d have to go a heck of a long way to find anything like it.”
Sinamark, whose expenses are covered by Medicaid, had tried an
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independent living high-rise and a traditional nursing home, but his fre- quent falls went unattended. He con- ceded he could no longer live without attentive care.
His home, a Green House run by ELCA-affiliated Tabitha Inc., features private rooms, on-site nurs- ing care, on-call physicians, personal emergency-call alerts, chapel ser- vices, a beauty shop and family style dinners with residents sitting at a single table. Activities include visits from groups such as the Girl Scouts, outings to the zoo, dinners at a coun- try club and other events.
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Jean Schmutte is a part-time “con- tinuum navigator,” Tabitha’s name for case managers, whose mother, Fleeta Seba, has lived in a Green House since May 2012. Schmutte is com- forted by the fact that residents can stay as their condition worsens, even after Medicaid takes over payments. Seba, 92, fell twice in the past year—first fracturing her neck, then her hip. She now uses a wheelchair. Before she agreed to move to a nursing home, Seba spent two months paying $15,500 a month for private-pay in-home nursing care. At the Green House she pays $9,000 a month for skilled long-term care. “My mother has a phone in her room and her own TV,” Schmutte said. “A device sounds an alarm when she tries to get up. Each resident has a call button in his or her room and an alert necklace or bracelet.” Across the U.S. the Green House movement is aimed at giving seniors a better quality of life than is tradi- tionally associated with institutional care. The National Green House Rep- lication Initiative is active in 32 states with 134 homes open and 106 more in development.
The Green House movement’s creator is Bill Thomas, a gerontolo- gist and self-described “nursing home abolitionist” who started the Eden
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