Retirement communities keep getting locations wrong

CHICAGO: Retirement community developers who persist with ‘transportation’ to the suburbs are going to find it harder to resell existing units when the current occupant vacates.

The next generation want walkable city centers. Read More »

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Brutal critique of skilled nursing homes published in national press

SAN FRANCISCO: A brutal expose of the reality of living in a skilled nursing home has been published in the national press.

The journalist daughter did not seek to denigrate the skilled nursing homes that housed her mother, but rather focused on the trauma an Read More »

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Boomers will always take risks to create engaging environments

NEW YORK: Errol Hunter doubts he will live long enough to see a resolution to the long-running Taylors Mistake bach dispute.

The 63-year-old Christchurch man has been staying at his family’s Taylors Mistake bach each year since he was born. Read More »

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New model of care being trialed in Australia

ATLANTA: ACH Group’s ViTA links acute, transition, rehabilitation, respite, community and residential aged care.

It has taken eight years of research, planning, negotiations and development but South Australian aged care provider ACH Group opened a $46 million, 120-place Read More »

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