抄録
This study, based on questionnaire method, discusses the headlined theme. For this study, mail survey were carried out 3 times in 4 regions ; Moriguchi-shi in Osaka, Yamaguchi-shi and Towa-cho in Yamaguchi Pref., 16 municipalities in Yamaguchi Pref.. The answerers of this survey are elderly people (65 years old or over). The important findings of this study are summarized as follows ; 1) The present condition and the wish for the future about living arrangement of the elderly vary in different localities. The elderly's wish for living with their children keeping 'some distance but not to be isorated' or 'intimacy at a distance' (Rosenmayr, L. et al. ) is generally observed, and this tendency is stronger in urbanized area. 2) In the case of separate living between the elderly and thier children, the distance between them is the exceedingly important element of the frequency of their mutual visiting. The extensive existence of 'isoratedly separate living elderly' (from their childen) especially in rural area is serious problem. 3) The determinative factor of the wish for the future about living arrangement, excepting localities, is the income of the elderly (the higher is tend to hope to live in the vicinity of their children and the lower in same home with them) and the location of their children. The tenants of municipal housing and smaller units are tend to hope to live in the vicinity of their children.
