Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

The award-winning designer Chris Tate uses his distinctive “Tent House”, located near Ostend village, as a design base for his architecture work in New Zealand.

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Seniors housing executives lament rise in power of referral companies

JACKSONVILLE: Third-party senior living referral services, which send residents in the direction of operators that pay their fees, are not good for the sector and should be spurned by large operators, according to several prominent CEOs in the senior housing industry.

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

AUSTIN: 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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Promising results for multi-source DBS in Parkinson’s disease

SAN JOSE: Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the subthalamic nucleus with a multiple-source constant-current device effectively suppresses motor symptoms in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), report researchers.

The 16-output, multiple-channel, constant-current device used in the study allows shaping of the electrical field, which the researchers Read More »

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