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Bill Thomas, M.D. is an international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare. He is the founder of the ‘Eden Alternative’, a philosophy and programme that de-institutionalised nursing homes in the USA and worldwide over the past 20 years. He is a self-described ‘Nursing Home Abolitionist’.
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