Table of Contents:
  • I. The elderly in American society
  • Housing the elderly / Anne Woodward
  • The elderly in America : their economic resources, income status, and costs / Robert H. Binstock
  • Sunbelt update : older Americans head South / Jeanne C. Biggar [and others]
  • II. Housing options for the elderly
  • For older people-not segregation but integration / Lewis Numford
  • In defense of age-segregated housing / Stephen M. Golant
  • Alternative housing modes / J. Kevin Eckert and Mary Ittman Murrey
  • The surveillance zone as meaningful space for the aged / Graham D. Rowles
  • Increasing housing opportunities for the elderly / Carole R. Shifman
  • III. Housing and persoal income : home equity conversions and the capital gains tax exclusion
  • Home equity conversions / Vincent J. Trichilo
  • Home equity conversions / Michael Hoeflich
  • Consumer safeguards for financial instruments unlocking home equity for the aged / Maurice D. Weinrobe
  • Home equity financing of long-term care for the elderly / Bruce Jacobs and William Weissert
  • Excluding gain on the sale of a residence : when should the election be made? / Rolf Auster
  • IV. The elderly as a political force
  • The elderly as a political force / Douglas Dobson
  • Setting the elderly housing agenda / Jon Pynoos
  • V. Current programs and emerging issues
  • Housing options for the elderly / Linda Daily
  • Housing policy for older Americans in the 1980s : an overview / Jerold S. Nachison and Morton H. Leeds
  • Future housing assistance policy for the elderly / Raymond J. Struyk.