Push towards healthcare tie-ups serious positional mistake

SAN DIEGO: The headlong rush by retirement community developers and managers to tie up long term contracts with hospitals and health care systems is a marketing mistake.

What will work in the short term with the remains of the veteran market, will spell commercial death Read More »

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Top ten seniors design innovations nominated by expert panelists

SEATTLE: A group of international senior housing designers has determined that ten trends are evolving in the over 50s housing sector. The group’s edicts, guidelines and advice is:

4. Expanded, interactive “third-place” dining areas. Read More »

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Calls to end widespread use of statins

PHOENIX: Dr Kailash Chand, deputy chairman of the British Medical Association, was speaking following research which found those who take the cholesterol-lowering drugs are more than twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease in later life than those who do not.

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Stockland has started work on the $160 million new age redevelopment, which includes a clubhouse, of the Cardinal Freeman Retirement Village in Ashfield in Sydney’s inner west… Read More »

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