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		<title>Lumina Group Newsletter Imminent!</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/10/lumina-group-newsletter-imminent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/10/lumina-group-newsletter-imminent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a long time coming (also one reason why there&#8217;s been a little bit of a drop off in my posting) but we will be in a position very shortly to launch our newsletter, called, perhaps a little unimaginatively, Industry Insights. 
We have actually produced the first issue, focused on affordability in service-enriched housing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Market Areas</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/07/primary-market-areas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, market areas in the seniors’ housing industry in Canada have been defined for the service enriched segment of the market. Primary market areas (PMAs) are considered to be those areas from which 75-80% of the residents of a project will come. Sometimes radiuses are used, 10 miles being a popular one as in “This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do the Golden Ears Bridge and the Olympic Village Have to do with seniors’ housing?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/what-do-the-golden-ears-bridge-and-the-olympic-village-have-to-do-with-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/what-do-the-golden-ears-bridge-and-the-olympic-village-have-to-do-with-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Market studies, that’s what. As I have mentioned numerous times in this blog, companies that produce realistic and well-documented market studies are at a terrible disadvantage in the seniors’ housing industry and probably in every other industry too. Many people who commission market studies want them written to order. We regularly lose business to competitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is ethnicity a factor in the seniors housing market?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/is-ethnicity-a-factor-in-the-seniors-housing-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/is-ethnicity-a-factor-in-the-seniors-housing-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethnicity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We always say that it is but we would certainly be interested in generating some dialogue around this subject.
The issue arises in respect to multi-generational cultures where it is common for seniors to live with their families until they are so frail they require residential care. That is, they skip the intermediate stage of supportive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going with the flow: interstate elderly migration, 1970-2000</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/going-with-the-flow-interstate-elderly-migration-1970-2000/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/going-with-the-flow-interstate-elderly-migration-1970-2000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers of this blog know, I have an unhealthy interest in migratory patterns of seniors. A recent article in the Journals of Gerontology (Volume 65B #5, November 2010) focuses on elderly migration in the US over the period from 1970 to 2000, specifically, on interstate migration. The article compares migration trends based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Highest Return on Investment in Seniors’ Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/the-highest-return-on-investment-in-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/the-highest-return-on-investment-in-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According  to a recent report from NIC (the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and  Care Industry) overall occupancy in US seniors housing projects is about 88%, with no signs on the horizon of any significant improvement any time soon. The housing market is still very weak and interest rates on popular savings vehicles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the Housing Market Going to Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-the-housing-market-going-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-the-housing-market-going-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it Would be Wonderful to be a Seniors’ Housing Market Analyst in the USA</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/why-it-would-be-wonderful-to-be-a-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-market-analyst-in-the-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/why-it-would-be-wonderful-to-be-a-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-market-analyst-in-the-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American vs. Canadian Seniors Housing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Interesting Stuff from the Census We Will Never Know Again</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/more-interesting-stuff-from-the-census-we-will-never-know-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/more-interesting-stuff-from-the-census-we-will-never-know-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have said before numerous times in this blog I believe that the changes the federal government is making to the 2011 Canadian Census by removing the mandatory long form are completely boneheaded. Here is another example of data that will no longer be available:
In Richmond, a suburb of Metro Vancouver, 40% of the 65+ households [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Census (Reprise)</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/2011-census-reprise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/2011-census-reprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Incomes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the government is still persisting in its wrong-headed plans to ruin the 2011 Census, I thought it would be useful to explain in a little more depth why the Census information is so critical for seniors’ housing analysis.
Here is an example of a table we always use when we are doing a market study [...]]]></description>
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