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	<title>Stair Lifts Blog - A Blog by SilverCross.com</title>
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		<title>Home Accessibility Bucket List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[barrier free living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two categories that most people fall into when trying to make their home accessible. One category is where someone has suffered a life changing event such as a stroke, car accident or some other catastrophe. In this case, the person may end up in a wheelchair and thereby need their home to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals to decrease 1/3 by 2020 in the USA.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospital Beds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article listing the four key reasons that approximately 1/3 of hospitals in the USA will close by 2020. 1. One in 10 Americans visit a hospital each year. 2. It cost the average employer $12,000 per year to cover an employee for medical]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Jobs to Increase 34% by 2020 &#8211; Show Me the Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/health-care-jobs-increase-34-2020-show-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/health-care-jobs-increase-34-2020-show-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to an interested post on Linkedin referring to the huge increase in jobs in health care in the USA as the population ages in the next 8 years http://linkd.in/yPqE7z . The article states that they will be 712,000 more registered nurs]]></description>
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		<title>SILVER CROSS &#8211; Founder Reflection &#8211; The Original Purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/silver-cross-statement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/silver-cross-statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silvercross vision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to share something with you.  About 18 years ago, I got a message on my answering machine from a client that needed a scooter.  The mind blowing fact is that Carol had not been out of her house for 15 years.  She was so pleased with her new]]></description>
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		<title>How to measure Quality of Life?</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/measure-quality-life-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/measure-quality-life-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver Cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barrier free living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peronal freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality of life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do you measure quality of life? It's a tough question to answer and my guess is that no two people would answer the same way. At every stage of life our priorities are different. Those is their twenties might measure it by the next vacation th]]></description>
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		<title>Half of all injury-related deaths among seniors in Canada were caused by falls.</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/injuryrelated-deaths-seniors-canada-caused-falls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/injuryrelated-deaths-seniors-canada-caused-falls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fall prevention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stair chair]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting article in the Toronto Star on Saturday, November 18th names "After the Fall." Key fact is that almost half of all injury-related deaths among seniors in Canada were caused by falls. The Public Health Agency of Canada estimates one]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Credit Helps #Seniors Stay Safe at Home</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/tax-credit-helps-seniors-stay-safe-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/tax-credit-helps-seniors-stay-safe-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario, Canada is proposing a new tax credit that would help seniors stay in their homes longer and help create jobs. Premier Dalton McGuinty tax credit would make it more affordable for seniors to install lifts and make other improvements to help t]]></description>
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		<title>New SILVER CROSS Franchise Website Launched</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/silver-cross-franchise-website-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/silver-cross-franchise-website-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Franchise Opportunities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.silvercross.com/blog/?p=572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new franchise website was launched this week at www.silvercrossfranchise.com to present the SILVER CROSS business opportunity. This franchise website was designed to focus on the franchise opportunity available with SILVER CROSS in both the USA an]]></description>
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		<title>Carol was house bound for 20 years until&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/568/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/568/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver Cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barrier free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home health care]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.silvercross.com/blog/?p=568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carol Iocubucci was one of SILVER CROSS' first clients.  She had not been able to get out of her house for over 20 years.  SILVER CROSS supplied a scooter and it changed her life forever.  I will never forget her call...   Here is the link to he]]></description>
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		<title>Ageing in Place &#8211; Vision 20 Years Ago Being Realized.</title>
		<link>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/ageing-place-vision-20-years-realized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.silvercross.com/blog/general/ageing-place-vision-20-years-realized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[recycled home health care equipment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.silvercross.com/blog/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["I formed SILVER CROSS to give families the opportunity to find lower cost solutions to their home health care equipment needs.  What I saw in 1993 was that vendors simply offering new equipment with very few options. In other words, they were getti]]></description>
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