Epilepsy skilled nursing home features stippled concrete walls

epilepsy-scroll CHICAGO: Soft indents create hundreds of spots across the concrete walls of this health centre in northeast France, designed by Atelier Martel to offer support and treatment to epilepsy sufferers.

Paris-based architecture office Atelier Martel worked with American artist Mayanna von Ledebur on the Dommartin-lès-Toul Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime BOSTON: 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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Mechanism identified to protect brain from neurodegenerative conditions

neuro-hp4 LOS ANGELES: Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a novel mechanism that could be used to protect the brain from damage due to stroke and a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, including sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy NEW YORK: The one hundred and fifty-third entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

Otterbein Lebanon is located on 1,400 acres and is the largest senior community in the Dayton-Cincinnati region with 440 independent living residences (with another 110 under construction or Read More »

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