Home sweet mobile home? Benefits and challenges of mobile home ownership in rural Pennsylvania

Aman, Destiny D.; Yarnal, Brent

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.09.001

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“…There has been a reported negative social stigma associating living in a mobile home with low socio-economic status, 16,28,29 which may have implications for obtaining requisite health and social services. However, more recently, in some states, mobile homes have been seen as part of retirement communities that attract older adults, as they offer an affordable housing option in an environment where ancillary support services such as a common club house, hot meals, and laundry service are offered.…”

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“…Some of the occurrence of these conditions may be attributed to higher smoking histories and to lesser levels of medical care. Smoking in midlife and late adulthood is a strong predictor of subsequent disabling chronic conditions among older persons, 16 and thus there may be value in targeting tobacco control programs to this population. Additionally, very little research has been performed on whether the age and design of mobile homes pose increased health risks per se on their older occupants or exacerbate existing conditions.…”

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“…11–14 The concentration of this type of housing in rural or suburban areas also may be associated with decreased access to health care and related services. 15,16 According to the American Housing Survey (AHS), almost all of residences designated as inadequate among persons 65 years and older were single-family detached units, most of which were mobile homes. 17 Inadequate housing can contribute to various infectious and chronic diseases and injuries that can exacerbate older adults' health.…”

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Disability levels and correlates among older mobile home dwellers, an NHATS analysis

Al‐Rousan

Rubenstein

Wallace

2015

Disability and Health Journal

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Background Although remarkably understudied, manufactured or mobile homes are the housing choice for nearly 20 million Americans and little is known about the health of older persons living in mobile homes. Objective We sought to investigate disability levels and other health correlates among older adults living in mobile or manufactured homes compared to their counterparts living in other types of homes. Methods We sampled non-institutional adults aged 65 years or older (n = 7609), of whom 344 lived in mobile homes, from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). Results Respondents living in mobile homes (average age = 75.1 years; SD = 0.5) had lower education and income and medical insurance than older adults living in other types of community residence (average age = 77.5 years; SD = 0.2). They were more likely to smoke, have lung and heart disease, and report fair or poor general health status. Mobile home dwellers reported more difficulty or inability in performing the following activities of daily living when compared to their counterparts: stooping and kneeling (64.9% vs 60.8%, p = 0.007), walking 6 blocks (46.5% vs 41.5%, p = 0.001), walking 3 blocks (37.7% vs 33.5%, p = 0.002), and climbing up to 20 stairs (39.2% vs 34.8%, p = 0.02). Among those reporting disability, mobile home dwellers had fewer bathroom safety modifications. Conclusion There is higher prevalence of chronic conditions, functional and cognitive impairment in older mobile home dwellers compared to older adults living in other types of housing.

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Disability levels and correlates among older mobile home dwellers, an NHATS analysis

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Rubenstein

Wallace

2015

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“…The proportion of trailer park homes among the rural poor is very significant in the US. It is up to 20 million and 7.1 per cent of all housing according to Aman and Yamal (), MacTavish (: 75–6) and Salmon and MacTavish (: 45, 50), and many of these are family parks with single women and children. Stigmatisation of permanent park residents is deeply entrenched in the US (Kusenbach ; MacTavish ).…”

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“…See Bunce (, ), Connor and Ferns (), Elliot (), Geggie () and Greenhalgh and Connor (). See also Aman and Yamal () and Margonelli () on the benefits of caravan parks for ageing baby boomers in Pennsylvania and California.…”

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Procreative and performative kinship among residents in Victorian caravan parks

Newton

2015

Australian J of Anthropology

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Recent senior anthropologists have heralded a new era where performative social and cultural kinship may eclipse procreational ‘biological kinship’ in contemporary western society. This article takes research on permanent residents in caravan parks as an extreme case that may act as an exemplar for future western contexts. Between 2003 and 2008, interviews with caravan‐park managers, 50 interviews with park residents and short field stays at 17 outer Melbourne and rural Victorian caravan parks, provided multi‐sited ethnographic material for analysis. I argue that contemporary contexts for relatedness give scope for creative development of social performative ties with ‘ex’ spouses and in‐laws, friends and pets. ‘Biological’ kin and family with a material dimension remain central, however, and a response to family need or rupture is often the broadening of the procreative kin links between grandparent and grandchild and between siblings. Childhood institutionalisation and divorce in particular, contributed to pathways towards caravan park housing. Other kin‐based motivations include finding safe accommodation for wives; providing housing for young adult males after injury and family divorce; and arranging for housing succession for children. Ideas of blood and folk biology demonstrate considerable resilience in contemporary kinship arrangements.

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Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, natural amenities, and employment in natural resources

Brooks

Mueller

2020

Population Space and Place

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Mobile home residence in the United States is associated with negative social, economic, and health-related outcomes. However, although research on mobile home residence at the individual level has been performed, a geographic understanding of mobile home prevalence in the United States remains absent from the literature.Therefore, the purpose of our analysis was to evaluate the county-level drivers of mobile home prevalence in the continental United States in 2015. The influence of five groups of variables-demographic, economic, housing, industry and occupation, and natural amenities-were assessed in a series of nested ordinary least squares regressions. Additionally, the full model was run as a spatial lag regression to control for spatial autocorrelation. Our results indicate that the primary drivers of mobile home prevalence in U.S. counties were the percent of population in near poverty, the labour force participation rate, and the percent of the population employed in natural resource occupations.

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Home sweet mobile home? Benefits and challenges of mobile home ownership in rural Pennsylvania

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Disability levels and correlates among older mobile home dwellers, an NHATS analysis

Disability levels and correlates among older mobile home dwellers, an NHATS analysis

Procreative and performative kinship among residents in Victorian caravan parks

Factors affecting mobile home prevalence in the United States: Poverty, natural amenities, and employment in natural resources

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