Apartment-House Increases and Attitudes toward Home Ownership

House prices and home ownership : A cohort analysis

England has very volatile house prices. Using survey data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, we document the association between house prices and homeownership at age thirty. We then use synthetic cohort methods to assess whether differences in early ownership rates persist in later life. We find that ownership rates at age thirty have varied substantially, with a sig...

Family caregivers' attitudes toward aging, caregiving, and nursing home placement.

Nursing home placement (NHP) is stressful both for older adults and for their family caregivers. This descriptive survey research investigated family caregivers' attitudes toward aging, their emotional appraisal of nursing home placement, and their reactions to caregiving roles. Eighty-eight survey packets were mailed and 35 usable packets were returned for a response rate of 39.5%. Sixty-four ...

Attitudes of relatives of nursing home residents toward physical restraints.

PURPOSE Attitudes of nursing home staff, residents, and their relatives determine the decision-making process about the use of physical restraints. Knowledge of staffs' attitudes toward physical restraints is sparse; even less is known about relatives' attitudes. Therefore, we surveyed relatives' attitudes and opinions toward physical restraints and compared the results to a survey of nursing h...

Determinants · of Home Ownership

House calls and home care.

HOUSE CALLS AND DOMICILIARY VISITS Introduction A growing number of people in the United States are homebound and need in-home health care services. “House calls” refer to the provision of physician services to patients in their homes or apartments, including independent living centers. Domiciliary visits refer to physician services provided to patients who reside in assisted living facilities,...