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Rural naturally occurring retirement communities
— a community assessment procedure | | Author(s) | Linda J Marshall, Michael E Hunt |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 13, nos 1/2, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 19-34 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Retirement communities ; Rural areas ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An attempt was made to develop a diagnostic tool for use by communities to determine what type of naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) they are, or could most likely become. Census data were obtained for 64 cities, townships and villages in rural Wisconsin. These communities were classified as either Amenity, Bi-Focal, or Convenience NORCs on the basis of a previous survey of 907 residents. A stepwise discriminant analysis was conducted on the Census variables using NORC type as the criterion variable. The resultant function used four Census variables and was successful in classifying 59.68% of NORCs. When Bi-Focal NORCs were eliminated from the analysis, one variable dropped out as a discriminator. However, three additional variables were significant discriminators: percentage of vacant housing; per capita retirement income; and percentage of workers employed in the entertainment industry. The resultant function classified 100% of Amenity and Convenience NORCs successfully. Implications for community planning are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022237 A |
| Classmark | ROA: RL: RH: 4C: 7T |
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