Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime LOS 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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Drink or two can help head off Alzheimer’s

beer PHOENIX: Studies show a daily tipple could provide protection for those in the early stages of the harrowing brain disease.

A landmark experiment found those who drank the equivalent of 3-4.5 units a day were less likely to die than those who drank only occasionally Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Panattoni Development Co. is planning an assisted-living facility on the site of an existing East Sacramento office building.

Tim Schaedler, the company’s Northern California partner, said the firm has already completed Read More »

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Students develop housing for seniors

david parker BOSTON: The Cumming Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Environmental Design are challenging University of Calgary students to design and build an aging-in-place housing project.

John Brown, associate dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design, worked with the W21C Initiative at the O’Brien Institute Read More »

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