Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

The Vietnamese Ministry of Construction has reported that the VND30 trillion ($1.38 billion) credit package for social housing projects has been disbursed slowly reaching less than one Read More »

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Proposal to blend new library with seniors housing project

FORT WORTH: A not-for-profit has come up with a plan to integrate a new community library with 100 units of affordable housing for seniors.

It has allocated $9m for the concept.

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

SAN ANTONIO: 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 Read More »

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Alzheimer’s research takes a leaf from the prion notebook

CHICAGO: Techniques borrowed from prion research are improving understanding of how plaques accumulate in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease.

The ability of the bizarre prion protein to cause an array of degenerative brain conditions may help solve a puzzle in Alzheimer’s research — why the Read More »

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