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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Assisted Living</title>
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		<title>Nightmare in Nanaimo?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/12/nightmare-in-nanaimo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the Nanaimo Daily News about seniors housing suggests that the average Nanaimo senior can afford 37.5 months of assisted living. And after that? The article leaves it to your imagination. Ice floes maybe?
But perhaps the situation is not as dire as the article suggests. For example, the average cost of assisted [...]]]></description>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=437</guid>
		<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>Numbers: Canada vs. US Nursing Homes</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/numbers-canada-vs-us-nursing-homes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/numbers-canada-vs-us-nursing-homes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Health Care System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long term care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study published by Brown University (July 2011 edition of Health Affairs) shows that between 1999 and 2008 the nursing home population in the US shrank by just over 6% while at the same time the population over the age of 70 increased by just over 8%. The shift is attributed largely to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 80/20 Rule as It Applies to Seniors Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/the-8020-rule-as-it-applies-to-seniors-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/the-8020-rule-as-it-applies-to-seniors-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always wanted to improve my time management skills—who doesn’t? So I bought a couple of books, The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch being one of them. The 80/20 Principle basically says that 80% of your outputs result from 20% of your inputs. The principle works in all kinds of ways, even in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food and grab bars</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/food-and-grab-bars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/food-and-grab-bars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bathrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grab bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize that I have posted about these two issues on numerous occasions but they are both something of bêtes noires for me. 
I have been travelling a lot and have eaten at several seniors’ projects. In one of them (which will remain nameless) the food was execrable. It isn’t often you get to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Publicly Funded Campuses of Care a Fraud in British Columbia?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/are-publicly-funded-campuses-of-care-a-fraud-in-british-columbia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/are-publicly-funded-campuses-of-care-a-fraud-in-british-columbia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:11:33 +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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campus of care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuing Care Retirement Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite a long time health authorities in BC have been extolling the virtues of the campuses of care they are creating where people can “age in place”.  Most of the campuses are combined assisted living/residential care combinations—there are very few examples in BC of true campuses where housing for independent seniors (no services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capture Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/capture-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/capture-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMHC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been having a dialogue with one of our clients about capture rates, sometimes called saturation rates, sometimes called penetration rates. They are calculated as the number of units of private pay service-enriched housing (supportive housing and assisted living) in a market area compared to the population over the age of 75. Years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US AL occupancy slowly improving and other thoughts on assisted living</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/us-al-occupancy-slowly-improving-and-other-thoughts-on-assisted-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/us-al-occupancy-slowly-improving-and-other-thoughts-on-assisted-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ILBC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent edition of Assisted Living Executive includes a chart illustrating AL occupancy levels over the period from the fourth quarter of 2005 to the third quarter of 2010. Occupancy levels fluctuated in a very narrow band between 90 and 91% from 2005 to 2007. Then the recession started to bite and occupancy levels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the integration/segregation issue</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/more-on-the-integrationsegregation-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/more-on-the-integrationsegregation-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Insights and Innovation: The State of Seniors Housing analyzes data from the 92 projects submitted to the Design for Aging Review (DFAR) in 2010. The report is a collaboration between the American Institute of Architects and Perkins Eastman Architects.
One of the insights of the report is that the traditional distinction between independent living and assisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Trends in Seniors Housing for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/top-10-trends-in-seniors-housing-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/top-10-trends-in-seniors-housing-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:59:11 +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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I get into this, I wanted to let you know that my book The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects is now available on Amazon.ca and on eBay. I know it sounds kind of weird to think about listing new books on eBay but apparently it is quite [...]]]></description>
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