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The United States has experienced massive population redistribution for a number of years. While at the turn of the century less than half the population resided in urban or metropolitan areas, now nearly three-quarters (73.7%) are located there (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1983). The concentration of older persons also has shifted from rural to urban locales, so that now three-quarters of individuals over 65 years of age live in urban communities (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1983), although recently there has been a turnaround in the rate of change. For this reason it is perhaps not surprising that recent work in gerontology has centered on metropolitan areas.
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Powers, E., Goudy, W., Keith, P. (1985). The Setting. In: Powers, E.A., Goudy, W.J., Keith, P.M. (eds) Later Life Transitions. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social, and Medical Sciences, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4978-2_1
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