Designing for the Life Span Segment 4
Designing for the Life Span Segment 4 
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Home range is defined by social gerontologists as the definition of outer boundaries to which someone will extend their most frequent activities. For the urban dwelling elderly, that home range will have very tight boundaries in a small neighborhood. For the rural elderly it is a range with loose and changing boundaries, rarely limited by a neighborhood and defined by the use of an automobile.
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Aging in place also includes some sense of neighborhood or as others have put it, "home range." For the urban dweller, the home range can be a very tightly constrained neighborhood that can be one city block. For the older adult in the rural setting, the home range is as far as they drive.
It is likely that many more older adults will be experiencing later life alone - requiring that forms of socialization and contact occur in new ways. Aging in place is easier said than done. The wishes of the older adult, their relative health, the reasonableness of living conditions and arrangements all play a part in the success of this concept.
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