The Housing Environment of the Rural Elderly
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 20 (4) , 444-451
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/20.4.444
Abstract
This paper examines the housing characteristics and perceptions and steps recently taken (or not taken) to improve the dwellings of 473 non-metropolitan couples 60 years of age or older and of 298 women 60 years of age or older who lived alone. Most of the respondents owned their dwellings which for the most part were modest and single-family. Usually the respondents said that their housing met needs, but many of them indicated that numerous details needed to be improved. Individually and collectively, federal housing programs were inconsequential to these older rural persons “left behind.”Keywords
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