Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeHOUSTON: Retirement communities and rest 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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Molecular bodyguards for immature membrane proteins

proteinsPHOENIX: Researchers have now shown how chaperones stabilize an immature bacterial membrane protein and guide it in the right folding direction, thus protecting it from misfolding.

Cellular machines continuously produce long polypeptide chains, the proteins. In order to properly fulfill its cellular function, a protein Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophy1NEW YORK: The seven hundred and eighty fifth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

Plans to bulldoze a closed-down Plymouth skilled nursing home and built a block of flats in its place have been resurrected.

Fanshawe Nursing Home, in Plymstock, closed Read More »

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Major impediment for seniors housing developers remains

senior living steroidsLOS ANGELES: Despite favourable demographics a threat to long-term success remains in the estimation of some prominent senior housing executives. It is the deep reluctance of seniors to voluntarily enter senior living.

“How do we break the cycle that staying in your single-family home is a Read More »

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