Exhibit (g)(11)


                             POWER OF ATTORNEY


     Forum Group, Inc. (the "Company") hereby constitutes and appoints
Kristi D. Bohling, Troy B. Lewis and Robert A. Profusek, and each of them,
as the Company's true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign on the Company's behalf
any and all Tender Offer Statements on Schedule 14D-1 and Rule 13E-3
Transaction Statements on Schedule 13E-3, and any or all amendments
thereto, relating to the preferred depositary units representing preferred
limited partners' interests in Forum Retirement Partners, L.P., and to file
the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents required in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact or agents and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or agents, or any of them or
their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated:  October 2, 1995            FORUM GROUP, INC.


                                   By:           Dennis L. Lehman          
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                                       Dennis L. Lehman,
                                       Senior Vice President and
                                         Chief Financial Officer