The Impact of Ethnic Involvement and Migration Patterns on Long-Term Care Plans Among Retired Sunbelt Migrants: Plans for Nursing Home Placement

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We examine anticipated preferences for nursing home placement as a strategy for meeting possible future long-term care needs among a sample of community-dwelling elderly European Americans who migrated to Florida after retirement. We synthesize prior research on ethnicity in late life, retirement migration patterns, and informal networks of retired migrants. METHODS: We gathered data through structured personal interviews with 578 retired migrants identified through screening from telephone listings, supplemented with snowball sampling techniques. RESULTS: Lifetime migration patterns and current ethnic involvement are significant predictors of mentioning nursing home placement as a strategy for possible long-term care needs. DISCUSSION: We interpret these results within the framework of Rowles's emphasis on the permeability of community-nursing home boundaries.

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