A Push – Pull Framework for Modelling the Relocation of Retirees to a Retirement Village: The Australian Experience
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 36 (8), 1451-1470
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a36206
Abstract
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small proportion moving to retirement villages, which provide a purpose designed and built residential and lifestyle environment. Using factor analyses, path analyses, and a push – pull framework, the authors model the decision process of retirees in Australia in order to identify relationships between push – pull factors and predictor variables, using data from a national survey of retirement village residents. The push factors relate to change in lifestyle, home maintenance, social isolation, and health and mobility, whereas the pull factors relate to built environment and affordability, the locational attributes of villages, and the desire to maintain an existing lifestyle. The survey data also identify village attributes considered desirable or undesirable, or important or unimportant. Overall, resident satisfaction with moving is high.Keywords
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