Can boomers make co-housing mainstream?

ALBUQUERQUE: Co-housing architects Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett predict the co-housing numbers will double within 10 years. If that happens it will be thanks to baby boomers.

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Brad Pitt is known for supporting Make It Right, a charity he founded back in 2007 that aims to help disadvantaged families and seniors find the perfect shelter. Read More »

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Brain’s inability to repair DNA may explain dementia and memory loss

FORT LAUDERDALE: Previously, it was thought the ability to repair DNA was the same throughout the body, but new research overturns this idea and shows organs vary in the extent to which they carry out a type of DNA repair called nucleotide excision repair.

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Dementia study into how diet and exercise affect blood flow to brain

CHICAGO: Four universities are to join forces to study how diet, exercise and other factors affect the amount of blood that reaches brain tissue and how that may affect memory.

The project will establish a new doctoral training center for PhD students. Read More »

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