Health and Migration of the Elderly
Health and Migration of the Elderly
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老年人的健康和移民
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1980
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C. H. Patrick
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作者：
C. H. Patrick
老年人的移徙决定在多大程度上受到健康状况的影响，这在很大程度上是未知的。在老年组群中，健康对移徙可能有两种看似矛盾的影响。首先，那些健康状况良好的老年人似乎比健康状况不佳的老年人更有可能随意搬家，比如去阳光地带的养老院。另外，那些健康状况下降的老年人，如中风患者，似乎更有可能参与到长期护理机构的转移中。虽然这两种类型的移徙都与健康有关，但需要确定第一种移徙相对于第二种移徙的规模以及每种移徙的距离。这两类与健康有关的移徙都涉及政策问题，本文将简要讨论这些问题。
The degree to which migration decisions of the elderly are influenced by health status is largely unknown. Two seemingly contradictory influences of health on migration are possible within the older cohort. First, those elderly in good health would appear more likely to make discretionary moves, such as to retirement homes in the Sunbelt, than elderly who are in poor health. Alternatively, those elderly in declining health, such as stroke victims, seem more likely to be involved in a move to a long-term care facility. While both types of migration related to health occur, the size of the first relative to the second and the distance of the moves of each type need to be determined. Both types of health-related migration have policy implications which are briefly addressed in this article.