| Title |
Moving Motivation of Senior Cohousing Inhabitants in Scandinavian Countries |
| Keywords |
노인주택 ; 코하우징 ; 주거이동 ; 스칸디나비아노인주택 ; 코하우징 ; 주거이동 ; 스칸디나비아 |
| Abstract |
The Purpose of this study was to find out the moving motivation of senior cohousing in Scandinavian countries, which experienced change of typical nuclear family structure and higher vocational activity rates of women, earlier than Eastern Asian countries. Cohousing schemes were evolved as an alternative housing??to reduce loneliness of elderly people by promoting active mutual relationship among inhabitants in the community.??This paper described why the elderly moved to senior cohousing in Sweden and Denmark. The project was carried out by social survey. 935 postal questionnaires were sent to 28 senior cohousing communities throughout Denmark and Sweden. Of those, 536 replies(57.3%) were collected and analyzed by SPSS program. 19 moving motivation were discussed connected with the variables such as characteristics of residents, community-initiative, and dwelling size.??As a result, ideology of senior cohousing, wanting to be free from housing management and physical attraction of the building could be the as main reasons to make inhabitants move to senior cohousing community.The important variables affecting moving motivation were living situation and community-initiative. |