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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Research using eye-tracking glasses reveals the learning process of novice medical students

Hazel_Eye_HDPHOENIX: Using eye-tracking glasses, a professor has developed a new method to determine how novice medical students learn compared to more experienced medical professionals.

“Many traditional assessment strategies in medical education rely on tabulating learners’ scores in order to obtain grades. In the real world, Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy1NEW YORK: The eight hundred and twenty eighth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

This is a rendering of a proposed multigenerational residential development on Washington Street across from North Shore Community College.

It is entered in the multigenerational residential Read More »

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Ethics watchdog to investigate sale of civil servant’s property

ethics watchdogCHICAGO: The public ethics watchdog is to investigate whether a civil servant broke any rules by failing to tell a public authority it was buying a property he owned. In 2013, the house was sold to the authority using a grant obtained via the public Read More »

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