Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeHOUSTON: 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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Five old remedies that are still healing today

Sour_Gummy_Worms_by_blckbaronstock-1764x700-2CHICAGO: One of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine discovered a breakthrough drug after poring over 2,000 ancient herbal recipes. Dr Tu Youyou’s discovery, the anti-malarial artemisinin, derived from wormwood, is credited with saving millions of lives.

From opium in poppies, to Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy1NEW YORK: The one thousand and eighteenth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

The Ensign Group, Inc. has opened its first Healthcare Resort in Kansas City, Kansas. This is the first of several newly constructed resorts Ensign will be opening Read More »

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Developer of rejected assisted-living proposal sues

reject PHILADELPHIA: A developer whose plans for an assisted-living facility were rejected by planners has sued claiming the decision was “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable,” and should be reversed.

The lawsuit has been filed. The developer proposed a 79-unit, 94-bed facility. Read More »

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