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Senior Housing Blog

Happy Holidays to our Faithful Readers

We have been letting our faithful readers down recently and I apologize for the scarcity of posts over the last few weeks. We will do better in the new year. A few topics lined up for comment include the future of Canada’s housing market based on some interesting data from the Conference Board; anti-anxiety medication [...]

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Nightmare in Nanaimo?

A recent article in the Nanaimo Daily News about seniors housing suggests that the average Nanaimo senior can afford 37.5 months of assisted living. And after that? The article leaves it to your imagination. Ice floes maybe?
But perhaps the situation is not as dire as the article suggests. For example, the average cost of assisted [...]

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90 is the new 80

In case you haven’t been keeping up, 90 is the new 80 or more precisely, 90 is the new 85. A recent report from the US Census Bureau (I know what you are thinking—why doesn’t she ever reference Canadian data in her posts? Because there isn’t any is the short answer to that question.) points [...]

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