A Koan
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Nursing Home
Dr. Bill Thomas is a dynamic gerontologist with the unwavering belief that the nursing-home industry should be about creating spaces and services for living, not dying. His nonprofit company, Eden Alternative, "deinstitutionalizes" dreary facilities by introducing pets, plants, children, and dramatic cultural change to create enlivening environments and eliminate the plagues of loneliness, helples... posted on Mar 30 2005, 1,158 reads

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Pride
In 1966, a group of parents who had children with development disabilities got together in the basement of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Auburn, Calif., to try to figure out a way to help their kids find employment and full integration into their communities. From that humble beginning sprang PRIDE Industries, the nation's largest employer of people with disabilities, with 4,300 workers in 11 sta... posted on Mar 26 2005, 982 reads