Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Oppidan Investment Co. is moving forward with its plans to tear down the former Bally Total Fitness near St. Louis Park’s Excelsior and Grand and replace it Read More »

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Ageism remains as last “ism” to be defeated

CLEVELAND: Racism and sexism have been battles fought and won. Even gay rights has triumphed. But ageism remains.

One study suggested that experiencing age discrimination diminished older people’s will to live. Another reported that seniors who harbored negative views about old age faced life expectancies Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

TULSA: 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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Wearable devices portend vast health and privacy consequences

PHOENIX: Tech firms are eagerly responding to the human penchant for self-perfectibility by inventing more devices that can collect even more data, which the tech titans foresee as the real gold mine.

New gizmos include a baby bottle that measures nutritional intake, a band that Read More »

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