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Environmental barriers and housing accessibility problems over a one-year period in later life in three European countries
Author(s)	Susanne Iwarsson, Carita Nygren, Frank Oswald
Journal title	Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 20, no 3, 2006
Pages	pp 23-43
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Living alone ; Housing [elderly] ; Portion conditions ; Urban areas ; Longitudinal surveys ; Germany ; Sweden ; Eastern Europe.
Annotation	The objective of this study was to describe environmental barriers and investigate the nature of accessibility problems in housing among 1150 very old people living alone in urban regions in three European countries (Sweden,Germany, Latvia) over a 1-year period. A specific feature of the study is the explicit conceptual differentiation between environmental barriers and accessibility problems underlying the presentation of the following results. First, environmental barriers were very common, and in all three national samples, the 20 most prevalent were found in 77%-98% of all dwellings investigated. Second, the magnitude of accessibility problems were similar among the three samples and did not change over one year, while differences were indicated in the type of environmental barriers generating accessibility problems. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070413005 A
Classmark	K8: KE: 5A: RK: 3J: 767: 76P: 7A
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