Skilled nursing home board members beat damages claim

BOSTON: Five board members who oversaw the downfall of a skilled nursing home have beaten a personal damages claim.

The original hearing upheld the jury’s finding of liability against the board members and administrators as well as the punitive Read More »

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Senior home equity reaches highest level in eight years

NEW YORK: Senior citizens have more equity in their homes than at any period since the financial crisis, giving rise to reverse mortgage potential, says an international study. In the third quarter of 2014, equity levels rose to their highest level since the third quarter Read More »

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Grant to encourage better design for seniors products

WATERLOO: Smart mattresses designed to prevent bedsores and sensors able to track night wandering are just two of the projects researchers from the University of Waterloo will lead for AGE-WELL, one of five new Networks of Centers of Excellence in Canada. Alice Wong, Minister of Read More »

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Study finds retirement communities to be ‘virulent incubators of social cliques’

LOS ANGELES: A study of close to 7,000 residents of 126 rental independent-living communities found evidence of cliques in three-fourths of retirement communities.

An association has now begun working with operators of communities on strategies to mitigate the effect of cliques and Read More »

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