Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

A skilled nursing home with its own cinema and pub is being built in Derby.

Construction work on the 78-bed home in Coleman Street has begun and Read More »

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China invites private investors to help build healthcare projects

AUSTIN: China has set the ball rolling for private investment in infrastructure projects, in an attempt to plug a widening funding gap amid a crackdown on traditional off-balance sheet borrowing by local governments.

China’s state planning agency has listed 1,043 proposed public-private partnerships (PPP) on Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

CHICAGO: 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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Heart failure patients with cognitive impairment ‘may have worse outcomes’

TULSA: New research suggests that cognitive impairment could predict worse outcomes such as readmission to hospital or death in older heart failure patients.

According to the authors of the study, heart failure patients with cognitive impairment had a risk of all-cause death and heart failure Read More »

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