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Senior Housing Blog
My Book: A Few Steps Closer to Publication
I have posted a couple of times about my forthcoming book currently titled The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building, and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects. The original goal was to publish mid-year but now it’s looking more like fall. However great progress has been made over the last few months and I am feeling [...]
Sarah Palin School of Public Policy: Stephen Harper, Tony Clement and the 2011 Census
The furor over the 2011 Census reminds me of Sarah Palin claiming she understood international relations because she could see Russia from her front door. That is how all of us will have to operate in the future—without benefit of actual facts guiding our decisions.
I have noted in past posts how we rely on data [...]
Seniors’ Housing Projects: Location, Location, Location–How Important is it Really?
Conventional wisdom suggests that for supportive seniors’ housing projects (meals, housekeeping, laundry etc), walking-distance proximity to stores and services is, if not essential, then at the very least extremely important. But without sitting down and doing the math, I would say that a minority of supportive seniors’ housing projects in BC are located close enough [...]