Future Directions for Elderly Migration Research
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Aging
- Vol. 2 (2) , 271-280
- https://doi.org/10.1177/016402758022014
Abstract
An assessment is provided of the directions in which future research should proceed on the patterns, causes, and consequences of elderly migration. Needed research is identified within six major areas of conceptual inquiry: Who moves among the elderly and where they move; the signficance of period and cohort effects; the local environmental context of residential adjustments; the significance of elderly individuals' life-long versus stage-in-life attributes as explanations of migration; the decision-making processes underlying migration behavior; and the specification and evaluation of relationships between public policy, social planning, and elderly migration.Keywords
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