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The Green House Project, Part 2

By Joseph Shapiro

Published June 23, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

In the second of two reports on the reinvention of the nursing home, NPR's Joseph Shapiro visits Tupelo, Miss., to see if the way a nursing home looks can change the way people live. The experiment is based on a concept called the Green House Project.

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Joseph Shapiro is a NPR News Investigations correspondent.

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