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		<title>Lumina Group Newsletter Imminent!</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/10/lumina-group-newsletter-imminent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<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>CKNW Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/06/cknw-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/06/cknw-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging population]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For all you non-Vancouverites following our blog, CKNW is the # 1 rated talk radio show in the region.  I just did an interview with Jill Bennett, one of the hosts on the station. Before the interview started I was thinking about  interesting ways to talk about the numbers—how our population is aging [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=417</guid>
		<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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		<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>Social Media in the Seniors Housing Industry in Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/social-media-in-the-seniors-housing-industry-in-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/04/social-media-in-the-seniors-housing-industry-in-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We here at Lumina Services are slowly moving into the 21st century. We have a blog on our website, we have podcasts on our website, we have a page on Facebook, and we have a twitter account, although we have yet to tweet anything. Part of the problem of course is that there is no [...]]]></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[bathrooms]]></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>Housing Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/housing-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/housing-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Canada and especially in BC we have been subject to numerous warnings that our housing markets are overheated and about to collapse, much as they have in the US. All of us in the seniors’ housing industry are very aware of the impact of falling house prices on occupancy levels. So it was [...]]]></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[Chinese 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>Live to 150?</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/live-to-150/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/live-to-150/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest Public Policy and Aging Report published by the American Aging Association includes several fascinating articles on the subject of longevity. Throughout history, many thinkers have postulated the theoretical existence of immortality but as the author of the article points out, they are all dead.  
Dramatic increases in life expectancy occurred in the [...]]]></description>
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