Redesigned home part of treatment for developmentally disabled

CabinetLocks-4627-1024x465NEW YORK: It’s challenging when dementia or Alzheimer’s disease enters the picture.

Now imagine an elderly person with Alzheimer’s and a developmental disability, such as Down syndrome or autism, as well as a behavioural disorder like hoarding.

Those are the types of clients who are served Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeWASHINGTON, D.C.: 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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Metabolic mapping reveals how human brain is connected

Connectome-640x353CHICAGO: The quest to understand ourselves by modelling the human brain continues this week with news from Germany, where a team of researchers discovered a way to combine two different brain-imaging modalities in order to confer directionality onto the connectome, or the connectivity map of Read More »

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Multigenerational affordable housing community developed

cdnassets.hw_NEW YORK: An old public housing project has been transformed into an ambitious $63 million multigenerational affordable housing development.

The housing project is the first phase of a planned six-phase redevelopment of a public housing development built in 1945.

The project is a collaborative effort between… Read More »

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