Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The five hundred and forty-first entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

Tod Elkins, principal of UrbanWorks, likens University Avenue to a “Miracle Mile,” referring to the many thoroughfares across the United States that have become bustling shopping, entertainment Read More »

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Honeycomb-shaped home touted as affordable housing option

CLEVELAND: A man has designed a honeycomb-shaped module that he says can “help people who can’t get on the housing ladder.”

Every Hivehaus module is a small hexagonal “living cell” made up of a “standard set of uniform components”. The modules can be combined in Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

MINNEAPOLIS: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.

But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to Read More »

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Scanning the brain’s magnetic fields offers hope for epilepsy patients

TULSA: Stewart Duguid used to have an epileptic seizure every fortnight. He never knew when they would strike, and they proved impossible to control with medication.

“I had the tonic clonic seizures, the ones where you fall to the ground and shake,” the 26-year-old said. Read More »

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