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| Change in elderly residential segregation in Canadian metropolitan areas, 1981-91 | | Author(s) | Geoffrey C Smith |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 17, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 59-82 |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Urban areas ; Suburbs ; Integration ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Since the 1960s, metropolitan areas in Canada have seen an increasing number of older people. Similar trends have been reported in the United States (US). This study examined change in residential segregation of older persons from younger persons in Canadian census metropolitan areas (CMAs) between 1981 and 1991, using census data. In each CMA, age-segregation was first evaluated in terms of inner-city-suburban population distributions, and then according to degree of segregation across census tracts expressed by the Index of Dissimilarity. Although the CMAs typically had moderate segregation levels in both 1981 and 1991, there were consistent trends toward increasing proportions of older people living in suburban areas, and declining degrees of age-segregation across census tracts. It is suggested that these trends are partly attributable to the ageing in place of suburban residents. Correlation and regression analyses showed that 1991 lower degrees of segregation were associated with CMAs which had relatively high percentages of both older dwellings and older population. The policy implications of the findings are discussed. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980702404 A |
| Classmark | K4: RK: RK6: TO: 7S |
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