Older women and the suburbs: A literature review

J Leavitt, MB Welch - Women's Studies Quarterly, 1989 - JSTOR
… myth is that elderly suburbanites are relatively well off because they own their own homes
and … While it is true that 75 percent of the elderly are homeowners and that 80 percent of owner…

Growing older in postwar suburbs: The meanings and experiences of home

C Després, S Lord - Home and identity in late life: International …, 2005 - books.google.com
… residential and personal choices of seniors:“I always dreamed of owning a house.” or “We
were … Older suburbanites’ experiences of housing and neighborhood help understand their …

The aging of the suburbs, 1960-1980

KM Fitzpatrick, JR Logan - American Sociological Review, 1985 - JSTOR
elderly proportions with the highest home values and rents. Apparently some elderly suburbanites
… to afford particularly high-quality housing despite their relatively low current incomes. …

The mobility of elderly residents living in suburban territories: Mobility experiences in Canada and France

S Lord, N Luxembourg - Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… residential mobility of elderly suburbanites have been used: a … the hypothesis that elderly
suburbanites will preserve their … experiences and its meaning for aged suburbanites. Daily …

Urban-suburban differences in the predictors of morale among the aged

BJ Felton, GA Hinrichsen, S Tsemberis - Journal of Gerontology, 1981 - academic.oup.com
… , the primary determinant of morale among elderly suburbanites was health status while
the primary determinants of morale among elderly urbanites were neighborhood and social …

Mobility and out-of-home activities of older people living in suburban environments:'Because I'm a driver, I don't have a problem'

E Zeitler, L Buys - Ageing & Society, 2015 - cambridge.org
… in older people’s engagement in out-of-home activities, and … by older people and its
implications for their out-of-home … and semi-structured interviews with older people living in …

Is happiness a home in the suburbs?: The influence of urban versus suburban neighborhoods on psychological health

RE Adams - Journal of community psychology, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
… Area, this study evaluates this “happy suburbanite” hypothesis. Results show that people
liv… , number of children under 18 years old living at home, and length of residence at present …

Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: A re-evaluation of definitions

HJ Gans - Human behavior and social processes, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
homes for old values." (22) Much of the descriptive and critical writing about suburbia assumes
that as long as the new suburbanites … found among the new suburbanites when they still …

Suburban communities

M Baldassare - Annual review of sociology, 1992 - annualreviews.org
Suburbanites are more likely than central city residents to know neighbors and to have
neighborhood friends. However, they are not more socially involved than others (Fischer et al …

A typology of US suburban places

BA Mikelbank - Housing policy debate, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… The last type in the Suburban Success category is Aging … of Aging suburbs is that their
population and housing are older … , 68.1 percent of the suburbanites included in this study live in …