Dementia patients to benefit from app that measures pain

appsBOSTON: Researchers have developed a world-first smartphone app that measures pain using facial cues.

For the patients who can’t communicate, carers try to gauge their pain using a checklist of symptoms known as a behavioural pain scale.

Professor Jeff Hughes from Curtin University has developed Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophyNEW YORK: The seven hundred and thirtieth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

Plaza Assisted Living is preparing to open its first eight-floor senior living facility in Waikiki this October.

The building is located along the Ala Wai Canal at Read More »

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Baby Boomers are first tech-savvy retirees and have home renovations to prove it

mobile-apps-pile-ssHOUSTON: Time to throw out the notion of the “stuffy” grandparents houses like we used to visit in our childhoods. Who doesn’t remember as kids going to visit the grandparents, and how the house seemed to us more like a museum than a place to Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeCHICAGO: 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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