Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Three years after the first lots in Terrence Wall’s planned super-subdivision went on sale in the rolling hills northeast of Middleton, 22 families have moved into new Read More »

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Staff shortages and lack of training will lead to more skilled nursing home neglect cases say experts

PHOENIX: Skilled nursing homes are facing a perfect storm of funding cuts, staff shortages and a lack of training that will lead to more cases of mistreatment and neglect, experts today warned.

A social work lecturer, who once worked undercover in a skilled nursing home Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

PHILADELPHIA: 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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Hunger-related drug may protect against Alzheimer’s

HOUSTON: An experimental drug that mimics the hunger hormone may offer protection against Alzheimer’s disease, an animal study shows.

In the study, researchers found that the drug, which is a ghrelin antagonist, reduced memory loss in mice engineered to have an Alzheimer’s-like disease. Ghrelin is Read More »

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