Nursing Home build on “Green House” model

From our friends at the ElderLaw Answers Blog http://blog.elderlawanswers.com/?p=210:

Last Month, I visited the first nursing home I wouldn’t mind living in myself some day.  The Leonard Florence Center for Living in Chelsea, Massachusetts (just over the Tobin Bridge from Boston), is built on the “Green House” model.

All rooms are private!  And they are designed in units of 10, all organized around a common area that includes a kitchen, dining area and living room.  The aides are trained to cook and food is commonly available, so that residents can eat what they want, when they want.

Each unit is designed for patients with similar disabilities.  Thus a younger resident with ALS or multiple sclerosis lives with similar individuals, rather than being placed with older residents suffering from dementia.

This level of privacy and individual attention doesn’t come cheap.  The facility charges $425 a day to private-pay residents, but it also accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

. . . . They even have a day spa.