Doctors seeing need for house calls as seniors age

DALLAS: Homebound elderly patients who aren’t ready for hospice care are benefiting from an old-fashioned concept that’s regaining ground.

Dr. Romin Shah makes house calls, and Diana Fabiano, who has taken care of her frail, 85-year-old mother with dementia for the past 15 years, is Read More »

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

AUSTIN: 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.

14. Any doctor who Read More »

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Apple’s open-source ‘ResearchKit’ and the future of medical research

SEATTLE: Apple has announced ResearchKit, an open-source platform that empowers researchers to design and administer app-based health research, which they can assemble quickly via a plug-and-play approach and without the need for a team of coders.

The innovation seeks to change the way disease research Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Los Angeles-based nonprofit developer Meta Housing Corporation has been entered for its new affordable-housing complex being designed by Long Beach-based architecture firm Studio One Eleven.

The 72-unit affordable-housing Read More »

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