Senior living worker management is holding back recruitment

FORT WORTH: Senior living providers have failed to innovate in recruiting the large number of workers needed to grow the sector.

Career paths are poorly lit, continuous education is non-existent; incentive schemes are either convoluted or non-existent and no effort to lift the poor public Read More »

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Doctors/medical staff need to absorb 15 facts about palliative care

PORTLAND: These are the 15 (tweetable) nuggets of wisdom that all care attendants, nurses, doctors and medical staff need to comprehend says palliative care and hospice physician Staci Mandrola. Commit them to memory and be better able to make a contribution.

15. When you ask Read More »

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Biogen Idec’s Alzheimer drug slows down disease according to latest trial

BOSTON: Biotechnology company Biogen Idec has released data from its Alzheimer’s disease drug trial, which reveals that the drug slows down the neurodegenerative disease.

The Cambridge-based firm specialized in developing, discovering and delivering therapies for the treatment of autoimmune, neurodegenerative and hematologic diseases to patients Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The hundred and fifty-second entry for the seniors housing Global Award for 2015 has been received.

Stone River Retirement, to be renamed RLC at Bradenton for its parent company, Resort Lifestyle Communities, is a 130-unit, fully independent senior-lifestyle complex. The Nebraska-based company is creating Read More »

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