Skilled nursing staff face new moral/legal challenges

LOS ANGELES: Skilled nursing staff face a new legal dilemma. Two cases currently before the courts seek to restrain husbands/spouses/partners from having sex with a female with dementia on the grounds that she is incapable of granting consent. Read More »

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Astringency to drive hedge funds into social impact investments

DALLAS: Social impact investment made for social benefit as well as financial profit is now a growth trend. The reason? Austerity budgets have resulted in significant cuts in government funding for social services. Government grants for social housing have shrunk. Similar budget cuts have affected Read More »

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Top 10 housing projects worldwide in 2014 named

NEW YORK: The top 10 multigenerational apartment housing complexes which opened in 2014, have been nominated for a Global Award. All have been shortlisted on the basis that they sought to reorganise and improve the conditions in which we work and live. Read More »

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USA investors moving offshore to prop up returns

WASHINGTON, DC: Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Primary Health Properties (PHP) is to up its UK exposure as a counterweight to an invasion of American REITs escapting from a slowing USA healthcare sector.

Its focus remains the acquisition of UK primary healthcare Read More »

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