To take advantage of the Pioneer Network’s extended “early bird” registration rate for its 10th National Conference of Culture Change, people must register by June 15. Read the full story

The Pioneer Network has completed a research project exploring consumer knowledge of culture change in long-term care facilities. Read the full story

The Pioneer Network has launched an online version of its popular Artifacts of Culture Change tool. Read the full story

Dr. William Thomas

Bill Thomas calls himself “a nursing home abolitionist.”

“I want them to go away,” he says. “Our greatest adversary is the institutional mindset. That must go.”

Talk of culture change doesn’t matter as long as people retain an attitude of elders as “the helpless inmates of total institutions,” he says.

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