Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Canterbury Woods is finalizing a contract with a Rochester construction firm to build its new campus at the former Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital.

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Call for affordable housing as homeless older women issue escalates

MEMPHIS: A national women’s alliance says the government should keep negative gearing but amend the controversial tax arrangement so that it stimulates supply of age-friendly new builds to support the growing number of homeless older women.

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

BOSTON: 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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Depression may be harbinger of Parkinson’s

NEW YORK: Depression may be a very early prodromal symptom of Parkinson’s disease, a large Swedish study suggests.

“The link between depression and subsequent Parkinson’s disease appears to be strongest in the few years before the onset of motor symptoms, but depression may exist earlier,” Read More »

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