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KMID : 1023720120580010405
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2012 Volume.58 No. 1 p.405 ~ p.428
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A Study of Primary Motives for Living in Elderly Concentrated Small Cities in the United States and Canada
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Rim Choon-Seek
Lee In-Soo
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Abstract
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The purpose of the study was to analyze the major motives for residential changes into small cities in urban counties. We reviewed primary motives of early older adults move into senior zone, or so called elderly concentrated zones in American and Canada. The Senior Zone is defined as declaring a district or entire small city a special place of intensified aged population and thereafter offering safety and welfare measures for the outnumbered elderly. first of all, senior concentrating small cities along rural counties are final destination of retiring people who have been working on labor-intensified farms and mechanical shops in rural communities. Because they spent middle lives working heavily without adequate income and culture social activities, nearby small cities with social supports and policy considerations are affordable and satisfiable places. Above all, if an elderly couple or a single old person stay at a house where their whole family had lived in the past, the housing cost is several times higher than staying at a minimum living space at a local county. For the future of Korean elderly, we envision minimized cost new adult life styles in affordable cheap housing units in rural areas growing home garden plants.
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KEYWORD
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Residential changes, Housing cost, Preference
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