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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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 you could do if you had 808 units</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I toured Friendship Village in Tempe, AZ while attending the recent ALFA conference in Phoenix. It&#8217;s spread over 43 acres and has 575 independent living units (bungalows and apartments), 91 assisted living units, and 142 care beds. There&#8217;s a pool, a fully equipped fitness facility (very busy when we popped in at 10:30am), an auditorium, [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></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>
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		<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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		<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>US Seniors&#8217; Housing Conferences</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/us-seniors-housing-conferences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/us-seniors-housing-conferences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 21:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am heading off to Phoenix a week Sunday for the annual Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) conference. The last ALFA conference I went to was in San Diego in 2006. Since then I attended National Association of Homebuilder 55+ Housing Council conferences in Denver (2007) and New Orleans (2008). The NAHB conferences were [...]]]></description>
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