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		<title>Happy Holidays to our Faithful Readers</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/12/happy-holidays-to-our-faithful-readers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/12/happy-holidays-to-our-faithful-readers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been letting our faithful readers down recently and I apologize for the scarcity of posts over the last few weeks. We will do better in the new year. A few topics lined up for comment include the future of Canada’s housing market based on some interesting data from the Conference Board; anti-anxiety medication [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<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>90 is the new 80</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/90-is-the-new-80/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long term care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing homes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven’t been keeping up, 90 is the new 80 or more precisely, 90 is the new 85. A recent report from the US Census Bureau (I know what you are thinking—why doesn’t she ever reference Canadian data in her posts? Because there isn’t any is the short answer to that question.) points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Market Improving (slowly)</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/us-market-improving-slowly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/us-market-improving-slowly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I do go on about the US market, but I find it endlessly fascinating. Of course that’s partly because there is so much data on the US market. We have so little data in Canada that it is usually quite difficult to figure out what’s going on. 
The chart below, courtesy of NIC, [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long term care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=442</guid>
		<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>Construction activity down but prices at high end up</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/construction-activity-down-but-prices-at-high-end-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/construction-activity-down-but-prices-at-high-end-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National Real Estate Investor just reported that 14,942 units of private pay service-enriched and skilled nursing facility beds are under construction in the US. That’s up modestly year-over-year although well below pre-recession levels. But it’s way below the peak of 1998, when an astonishing 57,800 similar units were under construction. Of course a lot [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>

		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Health Care]]></category>
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		<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 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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gated Retirement Community]]></category>
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		<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>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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