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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Senior Housing</title>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>My Book: A Few Steps Closer to Publication</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/my-book-a-few-steps-closer-to-publication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/my-book-a-few-steps-closer-to-publication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted a couple of times about my forthcoming book currently titled The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building, and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects. The original goal was to publish mid-year but now it’s looking more like fall. However great progress has been made over the last few months and I am feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Census (Reprise)</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/2011-census-reprise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/07/2011-census-reprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 Canadian Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Census Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Incomes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the government is still persisting in its wrong-headed plans to ruin the 2011 Census, I thought it would be useful to explain in a little more depth why the Census information is so critical for seniors’ housing analysis.
Here is an example of a table we always use when we are doing a market study [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<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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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/americans-moving-to-canada-in-search-of-more-affordable-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-and-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rentals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow birds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=261</guid>
		<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 a Difference Four Years Makes</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertsising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of entry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I am working in Stony Plain, a community of about 12,000 people 20 minutes west of the West Edmonton Mall, as these things are always described in the Edmonton area. It’s not where you are relative to downtown Edmonton, it’s where you are relative to the West Edmonton Mall.
On my way here I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you could do if you had 808 units</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/what-you-could-do-if-you-had-808-units/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/06/what-you-could-do-if-you-had-808-units/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supportive housing]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/05/fine-dining-in-long-term-care-a-contradiction-in-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ALFA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nursing Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></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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