Anticipating relocation: concerns about moving among NORC residents.
Most older adults prefer to live at home as long as possible, requiring supports and services to help them age in place. This study examines the relocation concerns of a group of older adults in a suburban naturally-occurring retirement community (NORC). Twenty-six percent of the 324 residents interviewed expressed concern about having to move in the next few years. Residents who were worried differed from those who did not worry on a number of demographic and biopsychosocial characteristics. Overall, residents present a profile of vulnerability that calls for preemptive action to help them stay in their homes. A NORC is an ideal setting in which to provide supportive services.
Carpenter
Brian D
BD
Edwards
Dorothy F
DF
Pickard
Joseph G
JG
Palmer
Janice L
JL
Stark
Susan
S
Neufeld
Peggy S
PS
Morrow-Howell
Nancy
N
Perkinson
Margaret A
MA
Morris
John C
JC
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008923:Missouri; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population