BOSTON: Giving the elderly vitamin D tablets with their meals-on-wheels helped to prevent serious falls, research shows.
Housebound patients who received daily supplements with their hot dinners were half as likely to fall over.
Experts think the tablets strengthen the bones and muscles and also Read More »
NEW YORK: The seven hundred and thirty-fifth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.
Milwaukie-based Marquis Companies will expand its long-term care, assisted living, at-home care and memory care empire with a new facility in Salem, the fourth new site it Read More »
PHOENIX: Is it too much to ask to be able to live near your family and friends in the area where you grew up?
Apparently so. A government minister has said many young people are being forced to move to other areas where houses and Read More »
LOS ANGELES: 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 »