Clock ticking on baby boomer pensions says IMF

129805_1 CHICAGO: The alarm has sounded for aging workers.

According to the International Monetary Fund, older workers will have to retire much later in the future to help pay for rapidly rising pension costs.

And governments will have to increase consumption taxes, too…. 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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St. Michael’s working on test to diagnose Parkinson’s disease

stmichaels WASHINGTON, D.C.: Early diagnosis and treatment is critical for patients with Parkinson’s disease, because once the nervous system disorder starts destroying neurons they are gone forever.

Yet a patient has only a 50 per cent chance of being correctly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease on his or Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

A team from the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary has teamed up with the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Public Health to Read More »

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