Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

A new affordable housing project in Flushing has a feng shui-centric design that will include a rooftop farm and solar panels.

The Brooklyn-based Monadnock development includes 208 Read More »

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New marketing terms sought to replace “care” and “retirement”

HOUSTON: Although many Boomers will be retired five years from now, many seem reluctant to consider retirement communities in their plans. Only one in five Boomers wants to relocate to senior-related housing or an active-adult community, according to a survey by the Demand Institute Housing Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

LAS VEGAS: 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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Earlier distinction between Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

BOSTON: In the white matter of the brain in particular, large differences can be measured between the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and those with the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

The aim of the research was to detect changes in the brain as early Read More »

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