Thursday Mar 27, 2014

The Gary Null Show - Cult of Adulthood - 03/27/14

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS

A look at the Baby Boomer Generation, its Cult of Adulthood and Denial of living a more ethical, slower, deeper, more connected and sustainable life

Dr. Bill Thomas, MD visionary founder of the Changing Aging movement. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Thomas is a geriatric physician who has a lifelong passion for working with the elderly. He is the founder of the Eden Alternative, a philosophical nursing home abolitionist program to de-institutionalize nursing homes across the US, and the creator of the Green House, a radical new approach to rip apart nursing homes and replace them with home-like environments based upon community and an interactive life. He is also a professor of Aging Studies at the University of Maryland Erickson School. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal named him among the 12 most influential Americans shaping aging in the 21st century. He has received numerous awards and is the author of a new and extremely important revolutionary book “Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper and More Connected Life.”  His websites are ChangingAging.org  and  SecondWindTour.org


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