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Elderly home-owners get institutionalized less often than renters do. We hypothesize that housing tenure itself explains this behavior. Using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample (N=2,372) collected between 1992 and 2005, we find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability...
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We study long-term care demand in the Netherlands for a sample of elderly Dutch households using detailed administrative data. Long-term care in the Netherlands is provided by a public health care system that is generous in comparison to that in many other countries, but offers few possibilities...
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Mobility on the housing market strongly declines with age. In contrast to younger age groups, older adults show a tendency to ‘stay put'. There is little evidence whether this immobility of older adults is due to choice or to constraint. This study makes an empirical analysis of the underlying...
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