Life satisfaction and real estate living conditions in late adulthood

Abstract

The main goal of the research is to investigate the differences in life satisfaction of participants in late adulthood according to their real estate living conditions and care for the elderly. The instruments for measuring the participants’ views are satisfaction with life scale and real estate living conditions and care questionnaire developed by Grum. A total of 357 participants of age over 65 years took part. The results show that participants who live in rural areas reflect the significantly higher level of life satisfaction than those who live in cities. Older people exhibit high attachment to their property and living environment, which provide them with the higher level of life satisfaction than the possibility of moving to another namely better quality environment. We suggest that housing policy should increase home care in living environment as well as accelerate the intergenerational transmission of real estate in exchange for better home care and coexistence.
Keywords: Life satisfaction, real estate living conditions, late adulthood.