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- Title
Neighborhood Quality and the Older Elderly: Theory and Two Pilot Tests.
- Authors
Greenberg, Michael R.
- Abstract
Neighborhood quality ratings among those 75+ years old are compared with their 50-74 year old counterparts. Using a sample of 400 from central New Jersey and a national sample of about 20,000, I find that the older elderly have constructed elaborate mental models of their environment that incorporate feelings and emotions about their home, ethnicity/race, religion, and the nation, as well as their perceptions about their neighborhood. About 30-40% of respondents have quite positive perceptions of their neighborhoods along with similar perceptions of their other environments and their own lives. Ten to 15%, however, do not. Their neighborhood quality ratings are fair or poor and many are not happy with their home or spiritual environments. Assisting this second group is a major challenge.
- Subjects
NEW Jersey; QUALITY of life -- Environmental aspects; HUMAN behavior; SENSORY perception &; society; MENTAL models theory (Communication); NEIGHBORHOODS; SOCIAL groups
- Publication
Human Ecology Review, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 2, p184
- ISSN
1074-4827
- Publication type
Article