Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Smaller, smarter properties are key to resolving affordability and practicality issues, says the head of a new taskforce on future housing.

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Apartments over train stations could ease seniors housing squeeze

DETROIT: The government should unlock the land above and around train stations to ease the affordable housing shortage, according to a proposal by an influential lobby group.

The committee chairwoman has written to the relevant ministers asking them to consider the development strategy, based on Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

CHARLOTTE: 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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Letting people with dementia drive is like giving them a shotgun

FORT WORTH: Countless people with dementia are driving dangerously on the roads after slipping through the cracks of an outdated driving license system, doctors have warned.

Experts have called for an investigation into how far dementia impairs safe driving. They said allowing some patients to Read More »

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