Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

These entries recognise innovative housing projects with excellence in design. This year’s projects were selected in the Excellence in Affordable Housing Design and Creating Community Connection categories. Read More »

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New retirement age set to become ‘never’

SAN FRANCISCO: Scientists have found the mechanisms that govern aging and are already doing experiments in rats on how to reverse it. They’ve found species that do not die of old age, such as the jellyfish Turritopsis.

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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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Stroke steals eight years of brain function

SAN FRANCISCO: Having a stroke ages a person’s brain function by almost eight years, robbing them of memory and thinking speed, new research says.

In both black and white patients, the researchers found that having had a stroke meant that their score on a 27-item Read More »

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