Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeCHICAGO: 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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Antidepressants may stave off dementia

smartiesLOS ANGELES: When you take an SSRI or mood stabiliser, you encounter plenty of people who say they, too, think they could benefit from something like that but they never would because we don’t yet know what the end results could be. What if, in old Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy1 NEW YORK: The thirty-second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

Coconut Grove-based Housing Trust Group closed on financing for construction of Valencia Grove, a 144-unit affordable housing project in the Central Florida community of Eustis.

Construction of the $21.8 million multifamily Read More »

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New service set up to help isolated elderly people

No-one-social-media-imageNEW YORK: A new service has been set up to reach isolated elderly people in need.

Care Assist is a new service, which was set up in October this year to help meet the needs of elderly people in the city.

Project co-ordinator Clare Murray said Read More »

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