Primary Market Areas
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...
View ArticleThe 80/20 Rule as It Applies to Seniors Housing
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%...
View ArticleThe Largest Gated Retirement Community in the World
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...
View ArticleNumbers: Canada vs. US Nursing Homes
A recent study published by Brown University (July 2011 edition of Health Affairs) shows that between 1999 and 2008 the nursing home population Very it with, a it http://themudcakes.com/cheap/atenolol...
View ArticleLumina Group Newsletter Imminent!
It’s been a long time coming (also one reason why there’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...
View ArticleConstruction activity down but prices at high end up
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...
View ArticleTransforming Institutional Long Term Care
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...
View ArticleUS Market Improving (slowly)
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...
View Article90 is the new 80
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...
View ArticleFollow Me on Facebook
Hi Everyone, I know it’s been far too long since I updated this blog, but many things have happened over the last year and regularly posting here just fell by the wayside. But, that isn’t to say that I...
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