Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime CHICAGO: 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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Researcher trials new ways of reducing behavioural problems associated with dementia

openness-research300 CHICAGO: A Canberra researcher has received more than $600,000 to fund dementia research in the nation’s capital and improve how aged care workers treat behavioural problems among residents with dementia.

Moyra Mortby from the ANU’s Centre for Research on Aging, Health and Wellbeing has collaborated Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy1 NEW YORK: The nine hundred and ninety-seventh entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

Eagle’s Trace, the Erickson Living retirement community, announced the addition of Amarillo Terrace, an independent living building currently under construction.

The project will feature 108 residences with Read More »

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Rise in nursing skilled nursing home bankruptcies

credit card DALLAS: There has been an unusually large number of bankruptcies in the nursing care industry, which has grown rapidly since the onset of the super-aging society.

Too many companies that built housing for elderly people – primarily fee-based homes – adopted a business model that Read More »

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