Care workers get practical tips on caring with free app

CHICAGO: The Keys to Care app which is a tool for care workers, giving tips and guidance on issues such as dementia care, continence care and end of life care, has been launched.

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The five hundred and sixty-second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

The Cancer Wellness Centre by Bernard Seeber Pty Ltd has won the Margaret Pitt Morison Award for Heritage, after a Western Australian Heritage Award earlier this year. Read More »

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Boomers are re-embracing communes to lower cost of city living

NEW YORK: A group of baby boomers is set to pool their resources to enable them to live in the city core.

In a throwback to the hippy communes of the 1960s, the move is a counter to escalating real estate values and rents.

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

DALLAS: 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 Read More »

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