Amica Mature Lifestyles Inc. (“Amica” or the “Company”), a Canadian based company that specializes in the management, marketing, design and development of luxury housing and services for mature lifestyles, announced its operation results for the current quarter which showed decreases and earnings and cash flow when compared to its results from last year.  The Company [...]

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What are some developers doing in other parts of the world with senior housing?  ACVV Retirement Village in Mossel Bay, Garden Route, South Africa is nearing completion on a 44 unit project is located in the coastal city of Mossel Bay and is an age restricted community for those in the 55+ category.  The design [...]

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Interested in international senior housing or want to see an investor presentation of a publicly traded, non-US senior living company that’s more than fluff?  Publicly traded Australian senior living provider Aevum posted an annual loss for the year of $12 million (AUS dollars) and the company announced with its fiscal year end results that its [...]

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Amica Mature Lifestyles Inc. (“Amica” or the “Company”) (TSX:ACC), a Canadian company in the business of management, marketing, design and development of luxury housing and services for mature lifestyles, announced the Company’s operating and financial results for the fiscal year and fourth quarter ended May 31, 2009.  The results fell short of expectations based [...]

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Officials in British Columbia celebrated the grand opening of a new health centre and assisted living complex in Lytton that was the result from the First Nations Leadership Council plan from November 2006.  The $8.7-million dollar project was funded by the Province ($4.3 million), BC Housing ($2.5 million) and the Thompson Regional Hospital District [...]

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Sun City Palace Tsukaguchi, in Osaka, Japan, recently was bestowed with the Gold award for Best Large Continuing Care Residential Community by the The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) 50+ Housing Council when it announced the winners for its 2009 Best of 50+ Housing Awards.  The project was also named a Notable Award [...]

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Peter Zumthor of Switzerland has been chosen as the 2009 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was honored earlier this summer at a formal ceremony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  The 65-year old architect has designed senior housing in Switzerland that has garnered international recognition (see page 13 of the booklet).  Although most of his [...]

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The LA Times recently wrote an excellent article that focuses on the question of whether its one child policy is now on the precipice of causing the explosion of its aging population  into a national problem for the burgeoning country.  The article, “China’s elderly will overwhelm the nation”, discusses how the policy may have fueled [...]

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The awards from the International Affordable Seniors Housing Ideas Design Competition hosted by ASHRA that were announced last month at the 2009 Atlantic Seniors Housing Needs Conference.  The competition was designed to show new and innovative concepts for affordable seniors housing design and various entries were received from across  Canada –  as far west as [...]

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The U.S. Census Bureau released a report earlier this week that shows that the world’s 65-and-older population is projected to triple by midcentury, from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050. In contrast, the population under 15 is expected to increase by only 6 percent during the same period, from 1.83 billion to [...]

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Interested in seeing some Japanese senior housing architecture with some flair?  See this post in Architectural Review for an example of a large grided frame designed to create connection and separation, producing a certain intonation of place.  The project was designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects for the elderly with dementia in Noboribetsu, Japan.
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) launched its new National Seniors’ Housing Survey this week that provides information collected from facilities in all provinces on vacancy rates and rents in seniors’ residences with services not offered in traditional rental structures.  Vacancy rates varied considerably across the country, from a low of 3.4 per cent in [...]

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