| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Housing quality among the elderly: a decade of changes | | Author(s) | John P Markham, John I Gilderbloom |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 46, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 71-90 |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Quality ; Black people ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Little research has been conducted on housing quality among older people in the US, partly due to the lack of reliable data. Studies on housing quality and older people are anecdotal and unsystematic, with many relying on decennial census data which provide a limited and unsatisfactory portrait of special housing needs of elderly people in general. This article seeks to fill this void by reporting a comprehensive US study of elderly housing quality. For all units, logistic regression revealed that region and race are the most important predictors of housing inadequacy; tenure and the gender of the person living alone are moderately powerful influences upon inadequacy. Housing inadequacy is greater among black older people, in the South, for older men living alone, and for those who rent. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827248 A |
| Classmark | KE: 59: TKE: 3F: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|