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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
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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>Sarah Palin School of Public Policy: Stephen Harper, Tony Clement and the 2011 Census</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/sarah-palin-school-of-public-policy-stephen-harper-tony-clement-and-the-2011-census/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/sarah-palin-school-of-public-policy-stephen-harper-tony-clement-and-the-2011-census/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seniors’ Housing Projects: Location, Location, Location&#8211;How Important is it Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/seniors%e2%80%99-housing-projects-location-location-location-how-important-is-it-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/seniors%e2%80%99-housing-projects-location-location-location-how-important-is-it-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Incomes]]></category>

		<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[Senior Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Ownership]]></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>Disability Rates: Do they Mean Anything?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/disability-rates-do-they-mean-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/disability-rates-do-they-mean-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding disability rates and how they affect housing market behavior, in particular moves to supportive housing or assisted living, is a very difficult thing to do. Statistics Canada tells us that 43% of the 65+ population in Canada have some degree of disability, primarily mobility, agility, pain, or hearing. Of those with disabilities, 60% are [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></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>Americans Moving to Canada in Search of More Affordable Seniors’ Housing and Health Care?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/americans-moving-to-canada-in-search-of-more-affordable-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-and-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/americans-moving-to-canada-in-search-of-more-affordable-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-and-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a comment about this recently. The writer was hypothesizing that as costs for seniors’ housing and health care rise in the US, Americans might move to Canada or Mexico in search of more affordable alternatives.
In both cases (i.e. Canada and Mexico) the fly in the ointment for Americans actually contemplating such a move [...]]]></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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