Perceived Suitability of Residence and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly and Handicapped

McAuley, William J.; Offerle, Joan M.

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“…The more dependent the elderly resident, the greater the impact of administrative policies. McAuley and Offerle (1983) examined the suitability of building management and found a correlation between suitability of management, building rules, and the life satisfaction of residents who have fewer social contacts and travel infrequently outside of the building. Francescato, et al (1979) determined that management was considered satisfactory by residents if it was accessible to residents for conversations, if complaints were followed up quickly, and if it was perceived that rules met the residents' needs.…”

Section: Housing Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wolk and Tellen (1976) found that those who lived in the presence of constraining rules that limited personal autonomy had lower levels of satisfaction. Management also appeared to be an important element in residential satisfaction for the elderly in government subsidized apartments (McAuley & Offerle, 1983;Degnore, Feldman, Hilton, Love, & Schearer, 1979)…”

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Satisfaction of Elderly Residents in Subsidized Housing: The Effect of the Manager’s Leadership Style

Johnson¹,

Lovingood²,

Goss³

1993

Housing and Society

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The objectives of this study were to determine the direct effect of an apartment manager's leadership style and the direct and indirect effects of functional health, morale, and social activity on residential satisfaction using a path model probability sample of 210 elderly residents from 19 federally subsidized apartment complexes.The path model positioned functional health, morale, and social activity as exogenous variables with leadership style as the intervening variable. Residential satisfaction was the dependent variable. Separate analysis was conducted for respondents with less than nine years of education and for those with more education.The total effect of every bivariate relationship was greater for those with less education. The total effect of leadership style on residential satisfaction was .446 for those groups with less education and .267 for the group with more education; for social activity, .371 and .178; for functional health, -.093 and .014; and for morale, .134 and .019, respectively. The R 2 for the group with less education was .327 and .102 for the group with more education.The leadership style of the apartment manager had a significant direct effect on the residential satisfaction of the respondents in both groups. Social activity had a significant direct effect on the residential satisfaction of those respondents with eight years or less of education. Functional health had a negative total effect on residential satisfaction for both groups and morale had a positive, though minor, total effect for both groups on residential satisfaction. The residential satisfaction of those with less education was more strongly affected by both the direct and indirect effect of the independent variables than was the group with less education.

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Section: Housing Managementmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Satisfaction of Elderly Residents in Subsidized Housing: The Effect of the Manager’s Leadership Style

Johnson¹,

Lovingood²,

Goss³

1993

Housing and Society

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“…This is a prevalent and difficult problem that is presented to health care providers and families. The value and importance of transportation has clearly been demonstrated as.a means of meeting physical and psychosocial needs (McAuley & Offerle, 1983). Undoubtedly, there is a great demand for transportation services for the elderly (Daum, 1983;Iutovich & Iutovich, 1988).…”

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Driving and Dementia

Bloedow

Adler²

1992

Social Work in Health Care

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This article explores issues related to automobile driving and dementia from the perspective of an outpatient medical clinic. A retrospective pilot study is presented with particular focus on the relationship between cognitive status and hazardous driving performance. Special attention is given to the practice considerations that confront social workers and other health care professionals who deal with this prevalent and difficult problem.

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“…Consequently, many analyses of this subject rely upon census data which are constrained by the number of living arrangement features covered and by the fact that the data are generally based on household heads. Where original data on living arrangements are collected, analyses tend to focus on either specific settings such as age-segregated housing (McAuley and Offerle, 1981;Devlin, 1980;Smith and Lipman, 1972), retirement villages (Jacobs, 1975;Martin, 1973), or particular groups of the elderly such as widows (Fengler and Danigelis, 1982) women (Hunter, et al, 1979), the poor (Winiecke, 1973), or professionals (Murikami and Pynoos, 1981). A few studies have considered a comparison of elderly persons with various housing circumstances and background characteristics, but these are often restricted to non-probability samples in selected housing situations (e.g.…”

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The Living Arrangements of Older Residents: The Role of Gender, Marital Status, Age, and Family Size

Connidis

Rempel

1983

Can. J. Aging

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This paper reports findings from a study of 400 community-dwelling persons aged 65 and over. The stratified random sample resides in a city in Ontario, Canada, with a population of 260,000. A profile of their living arrangements is presented and then analysed with respect to respondent characteristics. Each of gender, marital status, and age are related to living arrangements at statistically significant levels, but control analyses indicate that gender is the most salient respondent characteristic. The authors argue that these observed gender differences in living arrangements are a reflection of sex role differences in today's older population. To the extent that these roles change, so too will the living arrangements of men and women. For both the present and future, differences by gender must be taken into account in housing and income policies.

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Perceived Suitability of Residence and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly and Handicapped

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Satisfaction of Elderly Residents in Subsidized Housing: The Effect of the Manager’s Leadership Style

Satisfaction of Elderly Residents in Subsidized Housing: The Effect of the Manager’s Leadership Style

Driving and Dementia

The Living Arrangements of Older Residents: The Role of Gender, Marital Status, Age, and Family Size

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