Exploring Associations of Housing, Relocation, and Active and Healthy Aging in Sweden: Protocol for a Prospective Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study

Magnus Zingmark, Jonas Björk, Marianne Granbom, Giedre Gefenaite, Frida Nordeström, Steven M Schmidt, Taina Rantanen, Björn Slaug, Susanne Iwarsson, Magnus Zingmark, Jonas Björk, Marianne Granbom, Giedre Gefenaite, Frida Nordeström, Steven M Schmidt, Taina Rantanen, Björn Slaug, Susanne Iwarsson

Abstract

Background: While housing and neighborhood features have the potential to impact opportunities for active aging, there is a lack of knowledge related to how older people reason regarding their housing situation and how housing and fulfillment of relocation are associated with active and healthy aging.

Objective: The objectives of Prospective RELOC-AGE are to study housing choices and relocation and explore effects on active and healthy aging among men and women aged 55 years and older in Sweden considering relocation.

Methods: The estimated sample (2800) will include people aged 55 years and older being listed for relocation at either of two housing companies: a local public housing company in Southern Sweden and a national condominium provider. Prospective RELOC-AGE has a 2-level longitudinal mixed methods design and includes quantitative surveys (implemented by a professional survey company) and a telephone interview for baseline data collection in 2021, with follow-ups with the same procedures in 2022 and 2023. The survey and interviews include questions related to present housing and neighborhood, relocation plans and expectations, a range of perspectives on active and healthy aging, and demographics. Linking to national registers will provide additional data on home help and health care use, objective housing, and neighborhood characteristics. To explore what housing attributes older adults considering relocation find important and to what extent when making their decisions on housing, we will develop a discrete choice experiment to be implemented with a subsample of participants. Further, a grounded theory approach will be applied to collect in-depth interview data from participants who have moved to another dwelling, within 6 months of the move. A follow-up interview 12 months later will focus on participants' deepened experience over time in terms of fulfilled expectations and relocation experiences.

Results: As of submission of this protocol (June 2021), recruitment has commenced with approximately 960 respondents to the survey and ongoing telephone interviews. We anticipate recruitment and data collection based on surveys and interviews to continue during 2021.

Conclusions: Prospective RELOC-AGE has the capacity to generate new policy-relevant knowledge on associations of housing, relocation, and active and healthy aging. Such knowledge is relevant for the development of proactive approaches to housing in old age on the individual, group, and societal levels.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04765696; https://ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-registry/NCT04765696.

International registered report identifier (irrid): DERR1-10.2196/31137.

Keywords: accessibility; activity; age-friendly housing; aging-in-place; housing preferences; life-space; mobility; moving expectations; neighborhood; participation.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: None declared.

©Magnus Zingmark, Jonas Björk, Marianne Granbom, Giedre Gefenaite, Frida Nordeström, Steven M Schmidt, Taina Rantanen, Björn Slaug, Susanne Iwarsson. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 21.09.2021.

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Overview of study design and time plan for data collection in Prospective RELOC-AGE.

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