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| The well-being of British expatriate retirees in southern Europe | | Author(s) | Anthony M Warnes, Russell King, Allan M Williams |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 19, part 6, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 717-740 |
| Keywords | Migration ; Retired persons ; Well being ; Spain ; Portugal ; Italy ; Malta ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | A growing number of British citizens are retiring abroad. This article examines the personal outcomes of overseas residence in later life, by analysing some findings from the first large-scale, comparative study of the retirement of British citizens to southern Europe. Four study areas were compared: Tuscany in Italy, Malta, the Costa del Sol of Spain, and the Algarve region of Portugal. The analysis focuses on the expressed reasons for moving to and residing in the areas, the reported advantages and disadvantages, and the respondents' predictions of whether they would stay or leave in response to adverse and beneficial events. Overall, the subjects gave very positive reports, but there were considerable differences between the four areas. The associations of individual variation in well-being with both a person's `temporal commitment' to the area and to the facets of their social integration are analysed. The onset of severe incapacity, sufficient to prevent the continued running of a home, was the event most likely to cause people to leave their adopted area of residence. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000307216 A |
| Classmark | TN: BB6: D:F:5HH: 76S: 76T: 76V: 76W: 8 |
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