Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

A 42-unit, $8 million assisted living center that has been in the works on Olivet Church Road since 2013 is set to open this summer.

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Turning containers into affordable seniors units

BOSTON: The lack of affordable housing is one of the biggest problems facing the country today, but an entrepreneur has founded and spearheaded a corporate social responsibility project dubbed Citihub.

“Our solution is to design a mobile halfway house that can be put up inexpensively Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

MEMPHIS: 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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New study finds one-third of dementia nurses have unhealthy behaviours because of distress at work

EL PASO: Three-quarters of nurses who treat residential dementia patients frequently experience distress from being unable to give patients what they need, a new study has found.

The findings also report that one-third of those nurses also engage in unhealthy behavior because of those circumstances. Read More »

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