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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Retirement</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<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>Primary Market Areas</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/07/primary-market-areas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/07/primary-market-areas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically, market areas in the seniors’ housing industry in Canada have been defined for the service enriched segment of the market. Primary market areas (PMAs) are considered to be those areas from which 75-80% of the residents of a project will come. Sometimes radiuses are used, 10 miles being a popular one as in “This [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=411</guid>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>

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		<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>Long term care insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/long-term-care-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/long-term-care-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember having a conversation with a prominent operator of seniors housing and care communities in BC a number of years ago. We were discussing affordability and he said he was not concerned about affordability in the future because he was sure more and more people would buy long term care insurance as they came [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent 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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		<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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		<title>Integration or segregation of assisted living services in independent living communities</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/01/integration-or-segregation-of-assisted-living-services-in-independent-living-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/01/integration-or-segregation-of-assisted-living-services-in-independent-living-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted about this before and there is also a section on the subject in my book The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects (now available on our website and soon to be available on Amazon etc).
The thing is, I think I have changed my mind since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North American seniors’ housing providers should move to Beijing!</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/north-american-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-providers-should-move-to-beijing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/north-american-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-providers-should-move-to-beijing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Age of entry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I made a presentation at the Insight Western Canadian Seniors’ Housing Forum, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver. One of the things I talked about was the challenge of widening the market for retirement housing. Usually we consider that a new seniors project can expect to appeal to about 5-10% of [...]]]></description>
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