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Dr. Bill Thomas, Founder of Minka Homes and Communities 

Named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten Americans shaping the future of aging, Dr. Bill Thomas is a Harvard-trained physician, author, performer and serial entrepreneur whose work has focused on improving the health and well-being of older people. In the early 1990’s he co-founded the Eden Alternative with his wife Jude Meyers Thomas. This approach brought plants, animals, children, and news ways of living and working into sterile nursing homes and soon spread around the world. In the 2000’s he developed the Green House™ model that enabled older people living with frailty to become part of a community, living in a household of ten to twelve people. Dr. Thomas is winner of the American Institute of Architects’ Decade Award for greatest influence over design.

With his latest venture, Minka: Homes and Communities, he is now focused on helping people of all ages and abilities live in the place and manner of their choosing. The simple design of Minka is based on research into human complexity and decades of input from some of our culture’s most vulnerable and valuable people. Dr. Thomas has distilled these insights into the Minka Building System™. The resulting homes and communities are optimized to help people move, eat, sleep and heal.

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