HOUSTON: 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 »
PHOENIX: Three diseases often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them — heart disease and cancer — usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalisations. The third, dementia, has no effective treatments to slow its course.
So when a group of researchers asked Read More »
NEW YORK: The one thousand and seventeenth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.
The largest private investment in the history of downtown Kokomo moved closer to its expected construction start date Monday when the Common Council approved a development measure Read More »
HOUSTON: Loneliness should be treated as a public health priority on a par with poverty and poor housing, MSPs have said.
Social isolation is linked to malnutrition and dementia, with the stigma of admitting to loneliness driving people into desperate situations, according to campaigners.
Law Read More »