Ageing in Place or Late Life Move?. The Malaysian elderly generation housing options
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https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v5i18.185Keywords:
Ageing in Place, Generations, Elderly (Senior) housing, Residential Environment PreferencesAbstract
The elderly generation is distinctive, and this reflects their housing preferences. This study aims to offer an outline of the Malaysian generational elderly housing preferences. The main objectives of this study; (i) To define elderly; (ii) To classify the features of elderly housing preferences; and (iii) To ascertain the elderly housing preferences by generations. This study applies mixed-method strategy and shown; (i) Health; (ii) Safety; (iii) Convenience; (iv) Community; and (v) Amenity as the preferred elderly housing features. This study guides the main actors of property development on the preferred elderly housing by the Malaysian generations.
Keywords: Ageing in Place; Generations, Elderly (Senior) housing; Residential Environment Preferences
eISSN 2398-4295 ©2020 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
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