LOS ANGELES: In six weeks, the facilities housing nearly 2,000 patients requiring long-term mental health care will be shut down. Where are the patients going to go? The department of health says it has a plan, but no one has seen the plan – least of Read More »
Contract cancellation to force mentally ill patients out of skilled nursing homes
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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets
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 »
Can Alzheimer’s be transmitted person to person?
BOSTON: New research follows recent findings from the U.K. and Switzerland suggesting the protein “plaque” tied to Alzheimer’s can, in fact, be passed between human brains.
If so, that has real implications for surgery, especially since “misfolded” proteins — like the beta-amyloid implicated in Alzheimer’s Read More »
Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award
NEW YORK: The ninety-eighth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
Kingswood Senior Living Community – a leader in the Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) concept and one of the region’s premier senior living destinations — today announced plans to break ground Read More »