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What Is Aging in Place? Confusions and Contradictions

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  • Ann Forsyth
  • Jennifer Molinsky

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Aging in place is a policy goal for many governments and a personal goal for numerous older people. But what does it mean? Drawing on both scholarly and gray literature, this article outlines seven themes underlying definitions of aging in place. Some are descriptive: never moving, staying put for as long as possible, or remaining in the same vicinity. Two are related to care: staying out of a nursing home or receiving progressively higher levels of care in the same residential care facility without moving. Others are more normative approaches: aging in place as a policy ideal or as an exercise of choice. Definitions have implications for policy debates, urban planning activities, development approaches, and personal decisions. Recognizing that the term has many different definitions and nuances will help clarify policy, planning, and development options.

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  • Ann Forsyth & Jennifer Molinsky, 2021. "What Is Aging in Place? Confusions and Contradictions," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(2), pages 181-196, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:31:y:2021:i:2:p:181-196
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2020.1793795
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    1. Cheung, Hiu Ying & Fu, Yu Qi & Yang, Zan, 2023. "Older People’s Choice of the Community-based Care: A Welfare Pluralism Perspective," Working Paper Series 23/7, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Real Estate and Construction Management & Banking and Finance.
    2. Mihaela ZAMFIR & Ileana CIOBANU & Mihai Viorel ZAMFIR, 2021. "Vatra Luminoasa, age friendly study of intergenerational architecture in a Bucharest neighborhood," Smart Cities International Conference (SCIC) Proceedings, Smart-EDU Hub, Faculty of Public Administration, National University of Political Studies & Public Administration, vol. 9, pages 437-460, November.
    3. Alesia Au & Sadaf Murad-Kassam & Vestine Mukanoheli & Sobia Idrees & Esra Ben Mabrouk & Khadija Abdi & Megan Kennedy & Kyle Whitfield & Jordana Salma, 2024. "Immigrant Older Adults’ Experiences of Aging in Place and Their Neighborhoods: A Qualitative Systematic Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(7), pages 1-25, July.
    4. Siqiang Wang & Esther Hiu Kwan Yung & Ester Cerin & Yifan Yu & Peiheng Yu, 2022. "Older People’s Usage Pattern, Satisfaction with Community Facility and Well-Being in Urban Old Districts," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1-24, August.

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