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Ageing in place: residential satisfaction in Polish housing-estate communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2017

KATARZYNA GORCZYCA  and
TADEUSZ GRABIŃSKI
KATARZYNA GORCZYCA*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
TADEUSZ GRABIŃSKI
Affiliation:
Department of Finance, Cracow University of Economics, Poland.
*
Address for correspondence: Katarzyna Gorczyca, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland E-mail: k.gorczyca@uj.edu.pl
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Abstract

During the period of economic and political transformations in Poland, considerable changes occurred in large housing estates, while demographic transformation and housing-stock ageing starting to aggravate social and spatial problems. The serious issue currently dominating such estates concerns the process of natural ageing of the housing stock and residential ageing which is associated with the reduction of residential mobility and demographic ageing of people living in the large housing estates. This paper intends to identify ageing of the estates’ population in the context of the evaluation of residential life quality. The authors concentrated on analysis of 2002 and 2011 statistical data, as well as data collected during their field surveys conducted in 2010–2012. Detailed studies were carried out on seven estates in five cities and towns in Poland (Kraków, Poznań, Tarnów, Żyrardów and Dzierżoniów). To identify the residential standard and quality of life, surveys were conducted on housing estates which allowed the researchers to establish the essential factors which determined the level of satisfaction of older people with regard to their place of residence. The authors also determined the course of changes in the perception of particular aspects of life quality in the process of residents’ ageing in the selected places of residence.

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large housing estatesageing in placeresidential satisfactionquality of life
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Ageing & Society , Volume 38 , Issue 12 , December 2018 , pp. 2410 - 2434
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