Population Aging, Disability and Housing Accessibility: Implications for Sub-national Areas in the United States

Housing Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 252-266

  Smith, Stanley K ^a   Rayer, Stefan ^a   Smith, Eleanor ^b   Wang, Zhenglian ^c   Zeng, Yi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Concrete Change ^*  (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; disability; housing accessibility; housing need; housing policy; visitability

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AGING POPULATION; DISABILITY; ELDERLY POPULATION; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; HOUSING POLICY; NATIONAL PLANNING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859566750     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.649468     Document Type: Article

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