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| Health and social outcomes of moving to a continuing care retirement community | | Author(s) | Elayne Heisler |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 18, no 1, 2004 |
| Pages | 5-24 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Retirement communities ; House removal ; Geographical distance ; Health [elderly] ; Social contacts ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The experience of moving into a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) for those moving locally (within county) and from more of a distance (outside county) is investigated. Specifically, this research compares the social contacts and health of long distance and local movers before and after their moves. A sample of older adults was interviewed a few months before they moved into a northeast United States CCRC and a year and half after they had moved. As predicted, long distance movers were more apt to experience physical health declines in terms of percentage of health conditions experienced, as well as perceived health status. No such health declines were found for local movers. Contrary to expectations, the greater health declines of long distance movers were independent of their social network contacts, regardless of whether these relationships were with family or friends. Moreover, the evidence from this study suggests that moving to a CCRC does not affect social integration or perceived social support, with distance movers actually more likely than local movers to make new friends within the CCRC. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040308207 A |
| Classmark | ROA: TNH: RJ: CC: TOA: 3J: 7T |
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