Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The three hundred and twenty-first entry for the seniors housing Global Award for 2015 has been received.

Loma Colmenar is a multigenerational social housing complex bordering Ceuta’s state-of-the-art hospital.

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Major brand set to abandon aged care sector

CHICAGO: The growing realisation that skilled nursing homes are aged concentration camps and that societal antagonism to them is spreading, has led to a major health brand announcing today it intends to abandon its involvement in the practice.

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Ten residential designs are being pitched to over 50s housing market

LOS ANGELES: Ten new residential designs have been created to win a slice of the over 50s housing market. The selected designs cover upscale retirement through to affordable housing.

The designs include: holiday homes, second homes, pre-retirement cottages, rural escape, affordable and social housing.

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New tool can switch brain behavior ‘on’ and ‘off’

NEW YORK: Researchers have perfected a noninvasive “chemogenetic” technique that allows them to switch off a specific behavior in mice – such as voracious eating – and then switch it back on.

The method works by targeting two different cell surface receptors of neurons that Read More »

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