Elderly spend their days in shopping malls to stave off loneliness

1454462873104NEW YORK: Elderly people struggling with loneliness spend their days in shopping centres for solace, malls say.

When Joyce Moore, 95, gets sick of her own company, she heads for her local shopping centres.

Her husband died more than 20 years ago. Although she has a Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeLOS 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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Eating behaviour is common dementia sign

o-KID-EATING-facebookNEW YORK: While strong sucrose preference is a marker of frontotemporal dementia syndromes, hyperphagia is present in all patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia is characterized by rigid eating behaviour, a study showed.

What’s more, dissociated neural networks appear to control this behaviour, Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy1NEW YORK: The seventy-second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

When the term “affordable housing” comes to mind, the first thing to pop into your head is unlikely to be high style. That’s exactly the reaction that the team behind The Read More »

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