Performing Department
Family Youth and Community Sciences
Non Technical Summary
The research plan will employ a comparative perspective across rural America, and relies on a multidisciplinary research team consisting of academics in social sciences, design, and textileslocated throughout the U.S. The research group members have extensive experience in compiling and analyzing large databases using information from multiple secondary sources and geographic scales of inquiry. Team members are skilled in qualitative research methodologies, obtaining primary data through interviews, focus groups, and observation. Team members have employed their research skills and expertise compiling an extensive record of published research including peer-reviewed journal articles, presentations, outreach programs, and successful grant proposals. Each team member will pursue research in his/her area of expertise using similar sets of measures, timeframes, and analytical techniques whenever possible. In this way, comparative perspectives can be highlighted across regions and rural to urban scales.The research team is dedicated to addressing housing needs of older adults who prefer to age-in-place and the communities within which they reside. The projects will advance our knowledge of households' willingness and ability to successfully age in place and lay the research based groundwork for new policies toward accommodation of aging in place environments.The multistate approach allows each researcher to take advantage of the diverse skills of all the team members and their affiliated institutes. Members with Extension responsibilities provide the group with an understanding of stakeholder concerns as well as state and local governmental interventions addressing aging-in-place.
Animal Health Component
50%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
50%
Applied
50%
Developmental
0%
Goals / Objectives
Examine and draft policies and programs that promote successful aging in place in rural communities and encourage inclusive civic participation
Project Methods
Year 1: October 2017 - September 2018The first year will focus on examining secondary data to analyze aging in place and determine whether states, cities, or communities have addressed aging in place as part of their legislative agenda. Two datasets will be used: 1) AHS data consisting of the general data set released every two years and the special module associated with housing modifications released in 2011, and 2) state legislative databases. External funding opportunities will be identified to facilitate data collection and analyses.Year 2: October 2018 - September 2019The second year will focus on creating peer-reviewed scholarship derived from first- year secondary data analysis. The research team will submit at least one conference presentation and one manuscript.Year 3: October 2019 - September 2020The third year will consist of collecting primary data.Members with Extension responsibilities provide the group with an understanding of stakeholder concerns as well as state and local governmental interventions addressing aging-in-place. The research team will submit at least one conference presentation and one manuscript based on primary data.Year 4: October 2020 - September 2021The fourth year will unify primary and secondary data. Overlay and tell some story. Policy briefs, and outreach publications will continue.Year 5: October 2021 - September 2022The Public. The fifth year will include a series of workshops with stakeholders to identify and implement practical ways to implement the findings and recommendations from the research. Final conference presentation and manuscript.