After graduation from Harvard Medical School, Dr William Thomas never thought he'd work in a nursing home. Then, 51 , he became a medical director of a nursing home in New York, and his ideas began to 52 . "For the first time in my career, I was 53 for the answer to the question. What does it mean to 54 another person?"
55 that the biggest trouble facing nursing-home residents（居住者）are helplessness, 56 and boredom, he arranged laughter, usefulness and love as 57 .
58 Thomas calls it, he began the "Edenization（伊甸园化）" of the nursing home in 1992. At last he founded the Eden Alternative.
