MIAMI: Miller School researchers Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D, and Derek Dykxhoorn, Ph.D, have won a three-year U.S. Department of Defense contract to ascertain and analyze induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease patients with specific Alzheimer’s linked genetic mutations.
They will lead a Hussman Read More »
NEW YORK: The seven hundred and twenty-second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.
George St. is an unlikely place for a success story. The stretch of road on the downtown east side is better known for its thriving drug trade, Read More »
HOUSTON: Elder exploitation (also called financial or material exploitation, elder financial abuse, fiduciary abuse, or economic exploitation) is a powder keg ready to explode as older adults become a proportionately larger share of the total population. One study called elder exploitation “a many-headed Hydra for Read More »
PHOENIX: 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 »