Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy NEW YORK: The five hundred and nineteenth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

CA Ventures LLC and Pathway Senior Living have opened Travanse Living at Olathe, a 132-unit assisted living and memory care community in Olathe, approximately 25 miles southeast of Read More »

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Singapore needs to build up home-based care says Minister

signapore ministerPHOENIX: Although one in four Japanese is 65 or older, a mere 3 per cent live in institutions like nursing homes or community hospitals.

What Singapore has learnt from countries like Japan is that it needs to plan early and develop home-based care “aggressively” if Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime NEW YORK: 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 effectively Read More »

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The decline of tube feeding for dementia patients

tube feedingNEW YORK: Dementia from Parkinson’s disease was taking its toll on Joan Jewell. She could still respond to music, if a helper wheeled her to the Sunday concert at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston, but she spent most of her time in bed. Sometimes she Read More »

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