Changing residential mobility rates of older people in Sweden

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ID11200393
AutoresEwa Kazimiera Andersson (0000-0001-9620-1314, Stockholm University, autor de correspondencia), Eva Andersson (0000-0002-2854-0354), Marianne Abramsson (0000-0002-9365-6951, Linköping University)
Año2012
Volumen32
Número6
Páginas963-982
Fecha de publicación2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x11000808
OpenAlexW2173482731
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas25

The lifestyle of the baby boomers as retirees has been assumed to differ from older cohorts due to them being financially more stable and having grown up during the welfare state expansion. Many baby boomers live in large houses with gardens that require maintenance and labour. Recent studies have indicated that a growing share of those born in the 1940s in Sweden express a wish to change residence at retirement or in old age. A need to verify such results statistically was identified to confirm whether there has been an increase in residential mobility among older people. As a result, moves that took place during 2001–06 of the total cohort born in the 1940s were compared to similar moves by those born in the 1930s, ten years earlier during 1991–96, i.e. those aged 57–66 in 1996 and 2006. The study used a register database, Geoswede, containing the entire Swedish population. The study showed increased residential mobility rates among the 1940s cohort compared to the cohort born in the 1930s. However, explanations for the differences between the cohorts were not evident

Baby boomers · Cohort · Cohort study · Demographic economics · Demographics · Economics · Geography · Older people · Political science · Population · Residence · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Gerontology