| How to find good nursing home care
Dear Savvy Senior: Can you give me some tips on finding a good nursing home for my 86-year-old mother? She had a stroke a few months ago and has been receiving care at home but it's become too much. -- Leery of Nursing Homes Dear Leery: Finding a well-run nursing home that provides quality care is an important decision that requires some homework. Here's what you should know. .
Connection for senior Asian community
They came from Norcross, Conyers and Duluth. One moved all the way from California because word got out. About 60 senior Koreans have moved into the newly built Rainbow Heights apartment complex in Snellville, the first government-subsidized senior housing built by Asians in Georgia, according to federal housing officials. .
Booming Bloomfield: Building going on all around township
Target is taking aim at Bloomfield Township in a big way. The retailer is planning to open a Target store like no other on Telegraph north of Square Lake on the site once occupied by one of the Showcase Cinemas. Faced with glass and exterior wooden paneling, it will look more like an upscale office building than a big box retail site. .
Give me a home
It seems like a lot of trouble to build an 1,870-square-foot ranch home in the parking lot of Belle-Clair Fairgrounds, only to take it down four days later. But contractor Jim Coughlin expects thousands of people to tour the home during this weekend's Metro-East Home Improvement Show, and he believes it will help dispel myths about prefabricated homes. "When people think 'modular,' they think 'trailer,'" said Coughlin, who owns Coughlin Development in Freeburg. "And this is no trailer. ... We call them 'pre-engineered' homes." The ranch would look perfectly normal in most metro-east subdivisions. The exterior is taupe vinyl siding with white trim, including a spindle railing on the front porch. Inside, the home has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a gas fireplace in the living room, a walk-in closet in the master bedroom, a whirlpool tub in the master bathroom and 9-foot ceilings throughout.
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