PHOENIX: Smart socks can alert caretakers. A 15-year-old New Yorker named Kenneth Shinozuka created a light-weight sensor at the heel of his grandfather’s sock to alert his aunt when he got out of bed. When the user leaves a particular spot, it alerts the smartphone Read More »
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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award
NEW YORK: The seven hundred and forty-seventh entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.
An artist’s impression of a new 20-storey tower in Brixton.
Network Housing Group will build 177 new homes, including 81 “affordable units” and 1,358 square metres of Read More »
Dementia not the epidemic it was feared to be say academics
DALLAS: Dementia may not be the fast-growing epidemic it has been painted to be, according to experts who say that numbers of sufferers are stabilising in some countries.
The data usually cited for the proportion of people with dementia and the numbers of new cases Read More »
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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets
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 »