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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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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>Baby Boomers Crippling the Health System?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/baby-boomers-crippling-the-health-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/baby-boomers-crippling-the-health-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian Census]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Required: Title for Book on Seniors’ Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/help-required-title-for-book-on-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/help-required-title-for-book-on-seniors%e2%80%99-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readings of this blog know, I am writing a book that will be published shortly (meaning in the next couple of months). It is currently titled The Future of Seniors’ Housing: Planning, Building and Operating Successful Seniors’ Housing Projects.
That is quite a dull title I admit. A book designer suggested I come up [...]]]></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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		<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>My Book: A Few Steps Closer to Publication</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/my-book-a-few-steps-closer-to-publication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/my-book-a-few-steps-closer-to-publication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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[Migration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=286</guid>
		<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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		<title>Lowest and Highest Incomes in Canada for 65+ Households</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/lowest-and-highest-incomes-in-canada-for-65-households/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/lowest-and-highest-incomes-in-canada-for-65-households/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note that this is the last time we will be able to discuss this issue, thanks to the Conservatives’ completely bone-headed and inexplicable decision to gut the 2011 Census. No other country in the world runs its Census the way Canada does, or will in 2011. It is a tragic mistake that will take years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Occupancy Rates have Declined in 11 of 12 Quarters Since 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/us-occupancy-rates-have-declined-in-11-of-12-quarters-since-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/us-occupancy-rates-have-declined-in-11-of-12-quarters-since-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[snow birds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we have often commented in this blog, the US is light years away from Canada in terms of the quantity and quality of available research on the seniors’ housing and health care industry. The mission of the wonderful National Investment Center (NIC) is: “To advance the quality of seniors housing and care by facilitating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchens in Independent Living Communities</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/kitchens-in-independent-living-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/kitchens-in-independent-living-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appliances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in Phoenix at the ALFA conference. It takes a long time to get to Phoenix from Vancouver in spite of the fact that the two cities are in the same time zone (in the summer—Phoenix operates on standard time all year long). I spent part of the travel time reading Jim Moore’s latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Market Studies for Seniors’ Housing Projects can Save you Millions of Dollars; Bad ones can Cost you Millions of Dollars</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/good-market-studies-for-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-projects-can-save-you-millions-of-dollars-bad-ones-can-cost-you-millions-of-dollars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since one of Lumina’s business lines is market studies, it may sound self-serving for me to say that it is false economy of the worst kind to launch a real estate development project of any kind without doing a market study first. But very often, developers have great difficulty grasping the fundamental truth of this [...]]]></description>
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