SEATTLE: The American retirement housing sector is shortening its shelf life by failing to expand its housing options thinking. The industry is so fixated by the Life Licence (LL) business model that it has developed myopia.
Despite clear signs that alternative models and operations are Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO: The trend to building 3 to 6 floor retirement community structures, is taking the industry rapidly into institutionalism.
Whilst the trend has short term advantages (“the uncomplaining veteran generation can be shoe-horned into micro apartments”), the same building will be unsaleable Read More »
MIAMI: Stress and mental health disorders have risen more than any other causes of long-term sickness.
But Bariatric care is catching up. A quarter of adults are estimated to be obese and the number is expected to grow to account for more than half of Read More »
LOS ANGELES: The long-term care sector has gone batty. It is currently conducting a study which examines the effect of an indoor simulated garden installation that includes visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli on resident well-being, compared to the effect elicited by a reminiscence installation and Read More »