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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Researchers shed light on how brain progresses towards Alzheimer’s disease

alzheimers researchersPHILADELPHIA: New research shed’s light on brain’s progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer’s-type dementia by showing the typical patterns.

The study showed that different cognitive areas (language, inhibition, visuo-spatial processing, working memory, executive functions, etc) do not change in a uniform way. Cognitive Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

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

The Apartments at the Mill was built on the site of the former Raffino Knitting Corp. mill in Burlington City. The mill itself was converted into Read More »

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Lawsuit challenges denial of insurance to senior gay man

legalLOS ANGELES: In the first lawsuit of its kind a gay lobby group has filed a claim against an insurance company for discrimination for denying a gay man long-term care insurance because he is taking Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Truvada is a prescription combination Read More »

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