Aged skilled nursing home designers need to create better neighbourhoods

Opticos-9-crop1-500x232 LOS ANGELES: Aged skilled nursing home developers, architects and council planning officers are still fixated on creating standalone buildings and ignoring a growing international propensity to integrate rest homes into multigenerational neighbouroods.

A weekend symposium has been reviewing generational integration within communities earmarked for regeneration…… Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime CHICAGO: 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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Navigation skill test could diagnose Alzheimer’s long before memory fails

compass WASHINGTON, D.C.: Long before Alzheimer’s disease can be diagnosed clinically, increasing difficulties building cognitive maps of new surroundings may herald the eventual clinical onset of the disorder, finds new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

“These findings suggest that navigational tasks designed to assess a Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy NEW YORK: The two hundred and thirty-eighth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

The much-anticipated affordable housing development and senior center was under construction when it was burned to the ground last April during the Baltimore riots. The fire occurred when Read More »

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