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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Housing Options</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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></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>Transforming Institutional Long Term Care</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/transforming-institutional-long-term-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/transforming-institutional-long-term-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To most people in the field “institutional long term care” is a redundancy. If it’s long term care, it’s institutional. 
But a movement in the US, called the Green House Project, is aiming to change all that. And it’s not green as in sustainability, it’s green as in grass, plants, gardens, the outdoors.  
Here [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></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>The Largest Gated Retirement Community in the World</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/the-largest-gated-retirement-community-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/the-largest-gated-retirement-community-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gated Retirement Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been engaging in a bout of summer cleaning—trying to create breathing space in my usually very cluttered office. I can’t remember what clutter means from a personality perspective but I am feeling very smug about the order I have brought to a certain amount of chaos.
Part of the process involved going through piles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging in Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/06/aging-in-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/06/aging-in-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the Economist (An age-old problem, May 28th, 2011) discusses the findings of a report from the Law Commission, an agency in Britain that helps Parliament “tidy up legislation”, in the inimitable words of the Economist. The report is focused on long term care and how to pay for it. At present, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Boomers (one more time)</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/baby-boomers-one-more-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/baby-boomers-one-more-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emmylou Harris has just released a new record which, by all accounts, is excellent. Reading the reviews I learned that Emmylou, who is 64, lives with her mother, who is 89, just outside Nashville. That got me thinking, yet again, about the future housing behaviour of the boomers. Coincidentally we have been cleaning out files [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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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>An Asian Retirement Community</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/an-asian-retirement-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/an-asian-retirement-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog are by now familiar with one of my many obsessions, that being the impact of multi-generational cultures on the demand for supportive seniors housing. The hypothesis is that in cultures where families look after their elders at home until they are so frail they need residential care, the intermediate step of [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ILBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupancy Rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></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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