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Senior Housing Blog
What’s the Housing Market Going to Do?
Over the last couple of years, slumping housing markets in Canada and the US have most definitely affected occupancy levels in seniors’ housing projects. We have posted about this issue before. One of my concerns has always been that even after housing markets recover it will take older people even longer to forget the reversals [...]
Why it Would be Wonderful to be a Seniors’ Housing Market Analyst in the USA
I have made this point before several times (about the vastly superior information on the US seniors housing industry) but I was struck anew by the disparities between our two countries earlier this week. The wonderful National Investment Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It also has a new Research Director. In a recent newsletter, [...]
Baby Boomers Crippling the Health System?
You might have noticed the recent story in the newspaper about boomers crippling the health system. It was based on a poll commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association. The headline on the story in the Globe and Mail was “Most fear boomers will cripple health system”.
After reading the story and thinking about the poll results, [...]