NEW YORK: The biggest influence on seniors housing pricing in 2015 will be USA based real estate investment trusts (REITs) which are being driven out of America by the twin constraints of a fully priced domestic healthcare market, and the impact of Obama’s Affordable Care Read More »
Extra care housing set to be slums within 10 years
AUSTIN: The integrated retirement community, continuous care retirement community, and extra care housing sectors will be housing slums within a decade, said a planning consultant in a submission to a planning authority earlier today.
The paper referred to age ghettos, prison architecture, wagons Read More »
Innovative plan to have students and elderly share building
BALTIMORE: Education officials are looking at dealing with declining enrollments and rising education costs by combining classes and elderly assisted living under one roof.
The innovative move could prevent the need to shut down some schools. Read More »
Judge overturns home health care wage, overtime rules
WASHINGTON: A federal judge has overturned Labor Department regulations requiring overtime and minimum wage protection for 2 million home health care workers.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon had scrapped part of the rules in December, and has now completed the process. Read More »