Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The four hundred and thirty second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

Plans to build a housing estate on a historic military site have been approved.

The development of Kitchener Barracks in Dock Road, Chatham, would create up Read More »

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Social housing funds important for Azerbaijan

MIAMI: A local not-for-profit is behind an initiative to develop social housing in the ex-Russian satellite.

Vugar Bayramov, the chairman of the center for economic and social development, believes that the creation of a social housing fund is important both to control prices in the Read More »

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How cities can design for aging baby boomers

CHARLOTTE: Cities need to prepare for an older citizenry. A new report called “Aging in Cities,” from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a membership group of 30-plus countries that focuses on the global economy, notes:

In OECD countries, the population share of Read More »

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Researchers find way to retrieve ‘lost’ memories

INDIANAPOLIS: Memories lost due to traumatic brain injury, stress, or diseases such as Alzheimer’s may be retrieved by activating brain cells with light, shows a promising study.

Neuroscience researchers have for many years debated whether retrograde amnesia, which follows traumatic injury, stress, or diseases such Read More »

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