Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime SAN FRANCISCO: 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 Read More »

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Improving fitness may counteract brain atrophy in older adults

Carson_Smith DALLAS: Older adults that improved their fitness through a moderate intensity exercise program increased the thickness of their brain’s cortex, the outer layer of the brain that typically atrophies with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. These effects were found in both healthy older Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

Almost a third of homes to be built in a new section of the Hobsonville Point housing development will be affordable.

The government has brought forward the construction of a further Read More »

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Cedar-clad house could serve as a model for affordable housing

cedar WASHINGTON, D.C.: Graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have designed and built a contemporary family home in a low-income neighbourhood in New Haven, Connecticut.

The dwelling was completed as part of the school’s Jim Vlock Building Project, a program established in 1967.

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