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KMID : 1023720130610010405
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2013 Volume.61 No. 1 p.405 ~ p.431
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A Study of Health and Welfare Motives for Moving into Cottages in Elderly Concentrated Rural Towns in Canada
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Rim Choon-Seek
Lee In-Soo
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Abstract
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This study was performed to analyze the major motives for movement into cottage complex in small cities in rural counties in Canada, regarding health care and welfare benefits. 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 cottage near senior zone, their health care and activities are more open, easily accessible to social support network, and offered at lower cost. That will be the very center of new life in senior living after residential relocations. As a conclusion, moving into a cottage space at a rural town with age concentrated zones, later life is safer, more active than in urban building, and more accessible to social support network.
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KEYWORD
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Relocation, Cottage cluster, Housing cost, Preference, Social support
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