Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Construction work on care company NorseCare’s 80-bed specialist dementia skilled nursing home and 92-apartment housing with care scheme at Three Score site at Bowthorpe started last September. Read More »

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HCN completes $US750 million senior unsecured note offering

DALLAS: Health Care REIT, Inc. has announced it has successfully completed its offering of $750 million in aggregate principal amount of 4.0% senior unsecured notes due June 1, 2025. The notes were priced at 99.926% of their face amount to yield 4.009%.

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

CHARLOTTE: Retirement communities and 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 effectively Read More »

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Video games linked to greater risk of Alzheimer’s

CHICAGO: People who regularly play video games could be at greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders, a study suggests.

The study looked at adults who spent at least six hours a week playing video games.

It found that gamers tend to use Read More »

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