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Variation in Elderly Friendliness across the U.S. States: Operationalization, Rankings, and Selected Consequences

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  • Charles Lockhart
  • Jean Giles-Sims

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The United States faces a rapidly growing population of elderly citizens. To learn more about their prospects, we engage in three tasks. First, we develop and operationalize a five-dimensional concept, “state elderly friendliness,” that facilitates assessing various political, economic, and social aspects of state environments that influence the well-being of elderly persons. Second, we rank states on the five dimensions of this concept. We find large differences both within states across various dimensions and across states on individual dimensions. Third, we demonstrate that differences in states' ranks on our dimensional scales are associated with sharp variations in particular societal outcomes of importance for the well-being of various segments of the elderly. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

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  • Charles Lockhart & Jean Giles-Sims, 2005. "Variation in Elderly Friendliness across the U.S. States: Operationalization, Rankings, and Selected Consequences," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 35(3), pages 425-447, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:425-447
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