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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Housing Options</title>
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		<title>Why Seniors Move in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/why-seniors-move-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/why-seniors-move-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of entry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Housing Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gated communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States, where they have a quaint habit of collecting reliable data that sheds light on matters of interest and importance to their society (unlike Canada, where we consider this practice outrageously intrusive), data from the 2009 American Housing Survey have just been released.
For the 65+ group, the most common reason for moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the Housing Market Going to Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-the-housing-market-going-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-the-housing-market-going-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, slumping housing markets in Canada and the US have most definitely affected occupancy levels in seniors’ housing projects.  We have posted about this issue before. One of my concerns has always been that even after housing markets recover it will take older people even longer to forget the reversals [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/09/why-it-would-be-wonderful-to-be-a-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-market-analyst-in-the-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American vs. Canadian Seniors Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMHC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Investment Center]]></category>

		<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>Life Lease Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/life-lease-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/life-lease-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Lease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working on something to do with life lease the other day and googled an article by an Ontario lawyer named John Clark. The article is called Life Lease Residential Housing: Is it Time for Legislation? So far Manitoba is the only province that has enacted legislation dealing with life leases, although other provinces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun City Arizona is 50 Years Old</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/sun-city-arizona-is-50-years-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/sun-city-arizona-is-50-years-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parksville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement Community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That seems almost impossible to believe.  Not so much its age per se, but the fact that it was built when the median age in the US was 29.5 and the oldest baby boomer was 14. Today the median age is 36.7 and the oldest boomer is 64. Del Webb died in 1974. I don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Homecare for Seniors</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/thoughts-on-homecare-for-seniors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/08/thoughts-on-homecare-for-seniors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beacon Hill Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Retirement Community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My 87 year old mother recently spent 2 weeks with us (sorry for letting my posting slip somewhat). Near the end of her visit my son asked me how long I thought she would be able to continue living independently.  She moved from the family home into an apartment eight years ago. It’s not a [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Incomes]]></category>

		<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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<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>
		<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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