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Do older people adapt as well as younger age groups when they relocate to a new environment?
Yes. While some older people may experience a period of
prolonged adjustment, there is no evidence that there is
special harmfulness in elderly relocation. Studies of
community residents and of institutional movers have found
an approximately normal distribution of outcomes - some
positive, some negative, mostly neutral, or mixed and small
in degree. For many, relocation brings a better fit between
personal needs and the demands of the physical and social
environment. Research generally has demonstrated that
adjustment to residential relocation is determined, at least
in part, by perceived predictability and controllability and
by the similarity between the originating and receiving
environments.
Linda Breytspraak, Center on Aging Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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