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| Community attributes for developing group housing for the elderly in the United States | | Author(s) | Peter S K Chi, Joseph Laquatra |
| Journal title | Hallym International Journal of Aging, vol 3, no 2, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 237-252 |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Sheltered housing ; Nursing homes ; Living patterns ; Regional ; Indicators ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older Americans' spatial patterns of residence in nursing homes, group housing and ordinary housing units are analysed using County data for 1996 from the US Bureau of Census. The community attributes (correlates) for older people in group housing are further identified with Canonical correlation analysis. The results indicate that counties with a higher percentage of people aged 85+, counties having a higher level of social service industry, and counties in the Midwest tend to have a higher proportion of older people living in nursing homes. On the other hand, counties in the Northeast, counties with a higher level of active doctors, higher median gross rent, higher levels of educational attainment, higher per capita earnings in government, and higher capita earnings in all industries tend to have more older people living in group housing. Some community strategies for developing group housing programmes are discussed on the basis of these findings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216254 A |
| Classmark | KE: KLA: LHB: K7: 5CP: 3RI: 7T |
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