The Inner-City Resident: To Move or Not to Move
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 13 (4) , 443-448
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/13.4.443
Abstract
Housing dissatisfaction, the wish to move, and actual attempts to find a new home were studied in relation to actual moves by elderly slum dwellers over the following two years. While it was the better-off older person who seemed to want to move, who actually did move could not be predicted by any personal characteristics other than actually having tried to find a new home. This unpredictability is interpreted as evidence for a lack of control over one's own behavior which is typical of the disenfranchised older city dweller.Keywords
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