TY - JOUR
T1 - Motives and the geographic mobility of very old americans
AU - De Jong, Gordon F.
AU - Wilmoth, Janet M.
AU - Angel, Jacqueline L.
AU - Comwell, Gretchen T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Partial support for this research was provided by the Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, which has core support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant 1-HD 28263-01), and by the National Institute on Aging (Grant 5 P20 AG09646-02), "Exploratory Center on Aging and Health in Rural America." Address correspondence to Dr. Gordon F. De Jong, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, 601 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16801. e-mail: GED @ PSUVM
PY - 1995/11
Y1 - 1995/11
N2 - The proposition that motives for migration are important in explaining geographic mobility of very old persons was explored in this study. Data from the biennial 1984 through 1990 rounds of the Longitudinal Study on Aging were used to predict the movelnot-move behavior of a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized respondents aged 70 years and over in 1984. Six motives for elderly migration were identified: health, affiliation, economic security, comfort, functional independence, and getting on with life after a family crisis. When incorporated within this motivational framework, reason-for-move data showed that health was not the dominant motive; responses were divided among the five other motive categories. The logistic regression analysis showed that increasing disability was positively related to mobility for respondents in only one of six motive categories. The results suggest that a motive-for-migration perspective broadens the debate on types of, and explanations for, migration behavior of noninstitutionalized very old Americans.
AB - The proposition that motives for migration are important in explaining geographic mobility of very old persons was explored in this study. Data from the biennial 1984 through 1990 rounds of the Longitudinal Study on Aging were used to predict the movelnot-move behavior of a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized respondents aged 70 years and over in 1984. Six motives for elderly migration were identified: health, affiliation, economic security, comfort, functional independence, and getting on with life after a family crisis. When incorporated within this motivational framework, reason-for-move data showed that health was not the dominant motive; responses were divided among the five other motive categories. The logistic regression analysis showed that increasing disability was positively related to mobility for respondents in only one of six motive categories. The results suggest that a motive-for-migration perspective broadens the debate on types of, and explanations for, migration behavior of noninstitutionalized very old Americans.
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U2 - 10.1093/geronb/50B.6.S395
DO - 10.1093/geronb/50B.6.S395
M3 - Article
C2 - 7583818
AN - SCOPUS:0028883645
SN - 1079-5014
VL - 50B
SP - S395-S404
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
IS - 6
ER -