Winning urban designs which transform cityscape for boomers

bains douche PHILADELPHIA: Ten winning urban designs are set to transform cityscapes for baby boomers.

The tenth is Bains-Douches Castagnary (15th arrondissement). Winner: Bains-Douche.

This plan transforms a red-brick 1930s former public bath house into France’s highest wooden building featuring apartments….. Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime LOS ANGELES: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.

But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively Read More »

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Reviving memory with an electrical current

techniques-basic-electrical-wiring PHOENIX: Last year, in an operating room at the University of Toronto, a 63-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease experienced something she hadn’t for 55 years: a memory of her 8-year-old self playing with her siblings on their family farm in Scotland.

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophyNEW YORK: The three hundredth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

A proposal to build a $32 million, four-story senior living center received a nod of support Tuesday from the Cedar Rapids City Council.

The council approved a resolution allowing staff Read More »

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