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Moving beyond 'ageing in place'
— older people's dislikes about their home and neighbourhood environments as a motive for wishing to move | | Author(s) | Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby, Jim Ogg |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 34, no 10, November 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, November 2014 |
| Pages | pp 1771-1796 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Living patterns ; Attitude ; House removal ; Social surveys ; Wales. |
| Annotation | Ageing in place has been promoted by policy makers as the optimal residential solution for later life, and is premised on older people's reluctance to contemplate relocation, their declining residential mobility, and high levels of residential satisfaction. This paper takes a critical perspective to the notion of ageing in place by examining older people's dislikes about, rather than levels of satisfaction with their home and neighbourhood environments, and establishing whether such dislikes influence a desire to move. Analysis of the 2004 Living in Wales Survey shows that despite high levels of residential satisfaction, a significant proportion of older people do wish to move. Logistic regression results indicate this desire is strongly associated with dislikes about their immediate home environment, more than neighbourhood factors. Contemplating a move in later life may be shaped more by a desire to 'attach' to people, than to remain in situ to preserve an attachment to place. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150616005 A |
| Classmark | RH: K7: DP: TNH: 3F: 9 |
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