Retirement Living & Aged care
Jones Lang LaSalle: India’s Senior Living Sector at a Crossroads
There’s a tremendous emerging need for senior housing in India, and its senior living sector is currently at a crossroads as the country figures out how to care for a population that’s living longer than ever before, according to a Jones Lang LaSalle white paper. The 60+ demographic is the “fastest growing demographic segment in the world,” says the global real estate services firm.
Finance & Investment
Pharma faces China healthcare challenge
SAN FRANCISCO - Milling around the hotel lobby at the Sir Francis Drake hotel in downtown San Francisco are an eclectic group of investors, entrepreneurs and executives from established healthcare companies. They have all come to learn more about China's healthcare market; how better to invest in, raise capital from, and sell into the country's exploding biotech, life-sciences, pharma and medical device sectors. Hosted by OneMedPlace, a New York-based research organization, Monday's China Forum shed new light on the rapidly changing healthcare landscape in China.
NephroLife raises $25 mn; plans to build more clinics
Bangalore-based NephroLife Care Pvt. Ltd, one of India’s largest renal disease management firms, has raised $25 million (around Rs.130 crore) from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and DaVita Inc., the second-largest kidney care provider in the world, according to two people close to the deal.
Seed Healthcare, Jordan-based company join hands
To jointly offer cloud based solutions for Healthcare providers. Pune-based healthcare solutions provider, Seed Healthcare Solutions Private Limited (SHS), has released its 'Palash software solution on cloud technologies for hospitals and clinics. It has partnered with CtrlS, a data centre facility to undertake this pioneering effort for the healthcare segment. This was announced by Narendra Barhate, CEO, SHS and Dinesh Samudra, director, Seed Healthcare Solutions during a press conference held in the city on Wednesday.
Global Leaders at Healthcare Forum Say Innovative Models and Disruptive Technologies Will Help Bridge the Public Health Gap
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- More than 350 senior executives gathered in San Francisco Tuesday to explore solutions to the world's urgent healthcare challenges that included innovative financing models and technologies to get much-needed products to market faster and more cost-effectively.
Healthcare & Wellness
Shanghai Daily: More Foreign Investors Join China Senior Care Scene
More foreign investors are entering into Shanghai’s senior care scene, as the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau said that a Sweden and Singapore-backed firm providing senior home services recently received its business license, reports the Shanghai Daily.
General Age Related News
Japan game arcades rolling in silver yen
(TOKYO) Once the preserve of rowdy teenagers, game arcades in Japan are rapidly becoming the hippest place to hang out for a whole new generation - their grandparents. Youthful enthusiasm: For the elderly, arcades offer a chance to find fun and friendship away from the more traditional pursuits of old age
Silver industry, Asia, Arab world keywords for next ten years
Korea should swiftly draft measures to meet surging demand from the aging population and deep-pocketed Arab and Asian consumers to sustain growth for the next 10 years, a trade association urged Wednesday. Over the next decade, the growing elderly population will be a significant factor driving the market around the world and create niche products, the Korea International Trade Association said in a report.
