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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 63:S7-S14 (2008)
© 2008 The Gerontological Society of America

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Predictors of Non-Local Moves Among Older Adults: A Prospective Study

Charles F. Longino, Jr.,1, Don E. Bradley, Eleanor P. Stoller and William H. Haas, III4

1 Reynolda Gerontology Program and 3 Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
2 Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
4 Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Address correspondence to Charles F. Longino, Jr., Reynolda Gerontology Program, Box 7808, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. E-mail: longino{at}wfu.edu

Objectives. The goal of this article was to test a series of established predictors of the hazard of moving for persons primarily in their 50s and 60s. We tested demographic covariates, resources, travel experience, and community and person ties using a prospective design.

Methods. We employed data from the Health and Retirement Study, 1994 to 2002, based on a representative sample of households containing at least one member aged 51 to 61 in 1992. We employed measures available in the Health and Retirement Study to construct a series of Cox proportional hazards models that examined the causes of non-local moves.

Results. Community and person ties emerged as important predictors of non-local moves.

Discussion. Travel experience, when measured by regular vacationing and second homes, may increase community ties to a destination. The life-course model must be modified in its explanation of the importance of community and person ties, and of life transitions, as motivators of migration.

Key Words: Migration • Predictors • Prospective • Older Adults






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