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Mid-Life Patterns and the Residential Mobility of Older Men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2016

Lynda M. Hayward
Lynda M. Hayward*
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McMaster University
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Lynda M. Hayward, Ph.D (Planning) Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, (haywarl@mcmaster.ca)
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Abstract

There are numerous ways to better integrate the elderly into communities, many of which are contingent upon whether they will remain in their pre-retirement homes or make a move. Using a life course perspective, this paper establishes that residential history, social and family relations, socio-economic status, and health trajectories measured at mid-life can be associated with moves in later life, either directly, or indirectly through their effect on the mid-life residential trajectory. These relationships are examined with multivariate Cox proportional hazards and Poisson regression models, using data from the Ontario Longitudinal Study of Aging. These findings suggest directions for future research, to aid the development of public policy for the large baby-boom cohorts that are just entering mid-life.

Résumé

Il y a de nombreuses façons de mieux intégrer les personnes âgées dans la communauté, et nombre d'entre elles sont liées à leur décision de rester dans le domicile occupé avant la retraite ou de déménager. S'appuyant sur une approche selon le cours de la vie, cet article montre que les trajectoires des antécédents résidentiels, des relations socio-familiales, du statut socio-économique et de la santé mesurées au mitan de la vie sont associés aux déménagements survenus au troisième âge, de façon directe ou indirecte, via leurs effets sur les trajectoires résidentielles vécues au mitan de la vie. Pour étudier ces relations, nous avons appliqué les modèles multivariés des hasards proportionnels de Cox et de la régression de Poisson aux données tirees de l'Étude longitudinale ontarienne sur le vieillissement. Nous proposons certaines orientations de recherche future pour faciliter l'élaboration de politiques publiques visant l'importante cohorte de «baby-boomers» qui arrivent tout juste au milieu de leur vie.

Keywords

life courseresidential mobilityolder menagingcours de la viemobilité résidentiellehommes âgésvieillissement

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 2004 , pp. 73 - 89
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2004

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Footnotes

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This research was conducted in partial fulfilment of the author's dissertation for her Doctor of Philosophy with the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo and completed as part of her postdoctoral studies with the McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies. She would like to acknowledge the contributions of her advisors, N. Michael Lazarowich and Margaret Denton, and the financial support provided through a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (725-94-1454) and Postdoctoral Fellowship (756-99-0084) and the Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population (SEDAP) program.

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