Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Turriff-based Sandlaw Farming is building 300 rented homes, 75 affordable homes and 25 assisted-living apartments and the Banchory Medical Centre.

Aberdeenshire Council currently has about 15,000 people Read More »

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Next generation will see rest homes as form of age concentration camp

MINNEAPOLIS: Every generation comes to view some of the actions of the previous generation as reprehensible, immoral and sanctionable at law.

Nuns selling the children of ‘unwed’ young mothers to fund convents; the shooting of Aboriginals for sport; electro shock treatment for the mentally ill; Read More »

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

CLEVELAND: 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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Finger-tapping tests could point to better diagnosis of Alzheimer’s says study

NEW YORK: Tapping your fingers on the table is usually a sign of boredom or irritation. But not all tappers are equal, it seems. Men drum their digits slightly faster than women and people in their twenties tap substantially faster than people twice their age. Read More »

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