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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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		<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[Market Studies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Census Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Market Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></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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		<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[Home Ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
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		<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[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupancy Rates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[snow birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

		<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>Are disability rates improving? And if they are, why?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/are-disability-rates-improving-and-if-they-are-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/are-disability-rates-improving-and-if-they-are-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Universal design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people (myself included) share the view that disability rates among the seniors’ population have been declining. For example, here’s a headline from a National Association of Aging document dated May, 2001: Dramatic Decline in Disability Continues for Older Americans. And what’s the evidence? Between 1994 and 1999, the percentage of Americans over the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Difference Four Years Makes</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advertsising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of entry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am working in Stony Plain, a community of about 12,000 people 20 minutes west of the West Edmonton Mall, as these things are always described in the Edmonton area. It’s not where you are relative to downtown Edmonton, it’s where you are relative to the West Edmonton Mall.
On my way here I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Dining in Long Term Care:  A Contradiction in Terms?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/fine-dining-in-long-term-care-a-contradiction-in-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/fine-dining-in-long-term-care-a-contradiction-in-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nursing Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not in Phoenix! Or indeed all over the USA where fine dining in long term care is a definite trend. I toured a state-of-the-art not-for-profit skilled nursing facility in nearby Tempe AZ on Monday. I was profoundly impressed. The goal of the owner of the facility, Friendship Village, was to retain the ambience of a [...]]]></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[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appliances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></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>
		<comments>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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
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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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		<title>The Future of Senior Housing: Planning, Building, and Operating Successful Senior Housing Projects – new book by Kate Mancer, out soon</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/the-future-of-senior-housing-planning-building-and-operating-successful-senior-housing-projects-%e2%80%93-new-book-by-kate-mancer-out-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I say “soon” I mean June or July (2010!). We sold copies of the book at the pre-publication price of $25 (including tax and shipping) at the 3d Canadian Seniors Housing Forum held in Toronto  in March. (The conference was organized by inSIGHT—a Western Canadian conference is planned for November 2010.)
The pre-publication price will [...]]]></description>
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