Dirty old men.  They exist but how about indecent proposals from an 85 year old man to a member of a nursing home’s staff?  What do you do, chastise the resident or pick up the phone and dial a prostitute?  If you’re a nursing home director in Amsterdam, that’s exactly what you do. 

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Canada’s senior population continues to grow and the province of New Brunswick is experiencing a major shortage in the availability of senior housing to meet the needs of its citizens.  The Shannex New Brunswick development will create 216 nursing home beds in the next two years as part of a 3 building campus.  The area’s […]

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With the cost of Senior Housing and Long Term Care facilities being discussed and debated, why not consider living in 700 square feet on a major cruise line?  A cruise that is a self-contained lifestyle community, complete with restaurants, theaters, fitness center, library and a new view every day…sound tempting?  Shuffleboard, exercise classes, bridge, gambling, […]

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Can you imagine the children and neighbors of seniors in India (or the United States) subjecting the seniors to verbal and physical abuse over their decision not to sell or transfer their property?   Sounds like the children want to sell the house and pocket the money.  If they lived in the United States in 2005, […]

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Last Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal ran an article that discussed the large institutional lenders and government sponsored entities (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) lack of participation in the federal government’s affordable housing tax credit program.  As these companies have losses associated with write downs and credit related issues, their need for the tax credits […]

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Whether you live in the United States or abroad, common themes keep arising when it comes to Senior Housing.  Some of the trends presented at a recent conference in Melbourne, Austrailia include housing for seniors within universities, alongside golf courses, above retail shopping centres and even set over railway stations.  Some observations include that the […]

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