title: The impact of ethnic involvement and migration patterns on long-term care plans among retired sunbelt migrants: plans for nursing home placement.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examine anticipated preferences for nursing home placement as a strategy for meeting possible future long-term care needs among a sample of community-dwelling elderly European Americans who migrated to Florida after retirement. We synthesize prior research on ethnicity in late life, retirement migration patterns, and informal networks of retired migrants.
  
  
  METHODS
  We gathered data through structured personal interviews with 578 retired migrants identified through screening from telephone listings, supplemented with snowball sampling techniques.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Lifetime migration patterns and current ethnic involvement are significant predictors of mentioning nursing home placement as a strategy for possible long-term care needs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We interpret these results within the framework of Rowles's emphasis on the permeability of community-nursing home boundaries.
authors: Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA. eps3@po.cwru.edu
authors: Eleanor Palo
authors: EP
authors: Stoller
authors: Adam T
authors: AT
authors: Perzynski
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012179:Retirement; D012944:Social Support