Elderly People and the Environment
The present volume in our series follows the format of the immediately in dealing with a topical theme of considerable impor preceding ones tance in the environment and behavior field. In view of current and projected demographic trends, it is a certaint
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Human Behavior and Environment ADVANCES IN THEORY AND RESEARCH Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3: Children and the Environment Volume 4: Environment and Culture Volume 5: Transportation and Behavior Volume6: Behavior and the Natural Environment Volume 7: Elderly People and the Environment
Elderly People and the Environment EDITED BY
IRWIN ALTMAN University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah
M. POWELL LAWTON Philadelphia Geriatric Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
JOACHIM F. WOHLWILL Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Elderly people and the environment. (Human behavior and environment: advances in theory and research; v. 7) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Aged—United States—Dwellings. I. Altman, Irwin. II. Lawton, M . Powell (Mortimer Powell), 1923. III. Wohlwill, Joachim F. I V . Series: Human behavior and environ ment; v. 7. BF353.H85 vol. 7 155.9s [363.5'9] 83-26700 [HD7287.92.U6]
ISBN 978-1-4899-2173-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-2171-0
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© Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984 Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1984 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1984 All rights reserved
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Articles Planned for Volume 8
HOME ENVIRONMENTS Editors: Irwin Altman and Carol Werner The Concept of Home KIM DOVEY Housing and Identity in a Third World Society: Privacy, Class and Tradition in Sri Lanka JAMES S. DUNCAN Comparative Housing Policies: Common Problems and Solutions ELIZABETH HUTTMAN The Experiences and Uses of the Home PERLA KOROSEC-SERFATY Comparative Analyses of Homes RODERICK J. LAWRENCE Thinking About Home Environment: A Conceptual Framework AMOS RAPOPORT The Role of Housing in the Experience of Dwelling SUSAN SAEGERT The Ritual Establishment of Home DAVID SAlLE The Meaning of Home to Mobile Americans SALLY SHUMAKER Home and Near Home Territories RALPH T AYLOR AND SIDNEY BROWER The Affective Criterion in Homes: Satisfaction SUE WEIDEMAN AND JAMES ANDERSON Temporal Aspects of Homes: A Transactional Analysis CAROL WERNER, DIANA OXLEY AND IRWIN ALTMAN
Contributors IRWIN ALTMAN • College of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah ABRAHAM CARP • The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California FRANCES M. CARP • The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California J. KEVIN ECKERT • Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio MARTIN V. FALETTI· Stein Gerontological Institute, Miami Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, Miami, Florida STEPHEN M. GOLANT • Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida MICHAEL E. HUNT • Institute for Social Research and College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of