Dr. Stephen Golant

Professor

golant@geog.ufl.edu or golantsm@earthlink.net
3117 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117315
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Office Phone: (352) 392-0494  Ext. 218
Home Phone: (352) 371-0797
Fax: (352) 371-1140

Areas of Specialization

• Gerontology
• Housing, neighborhood, and community needs of the U.S. elderly population
• Strengths and weaknesses of alternative shelter and care settings
• The supportive service needs of low-income seniors in rent-subsidized housing
• Residential location and migration patterns of elderly
• Transportation problems and behaviors of older persons

Websites of Interest

• Executive Summary (and full report ordering information) of ASSISTED LIVING: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO CANADA'S LONG-TERM CARE CRISIS
• My report on the status of Hawaii's Affordable and Supportive Housing Options and policy (.pdf format)
• This includes the Executive Summary and the full report without the statistical data. If the entire report is requested, please contact:  Assisted Living Options Hawaii. Send your name, full address, phone number and email address and $25 check by mail to Assisted Living Options of Hawaii, Post Office Box 22597, Honolulu, HI 96823-2597.  Phone - (808) 838-7965 or velda14@aol.com.
• Executive Summary of The CASERA Project (.pdf format)
• Complete report of The CASERA Project (.pdf format)

Educational Background

• PhD -- University of Washington, 1972
• MA -- University of Toronto, 1969
• BA -- University of Toronto, 1968

Recent Courses

• GEO 2410 Social Geography of the City Spring 2008 (Syllabus).
• GEO 3611 Housing, People, and Places in a Spatially Diverse America  FALL, 2007 (Syllabus).
• GEO 4612  Shelter and Care Options for U.S. Elderly SPRING, 2008 (Syllabus attached in .pdf format)
• GEO 5615 (GEY 5935) Housing and Environments of the Elderly (currently unscheduled)
• GEO 6495 Environment and Behavior (currently unscheduled) 

Recent Publications

Research Papers
Golant, S. forthcoming, 2006. "Low-Income and Frail Older Persons Needing Affordable Housing with Supportive Services: Does Location Matter? Generations.

Golant, S. 2005. "Specialized Housing/House with Supportive Services," Encyclopedia of Aging, Fourth Edition.

Golant, S. 2005. Subjective Health and the Dangers of Absent Individual Effects and Crude Contextual Proxies of Causal Mechanisms. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 60B (4): S191-S192.

Golant, S. 2005. Housing. In Working with Seniors: Health, Financial, and Social Issues, ed. E. J. Pittock. Denver, CO: Society of Certified Senior Advisors.

Golant, S., with J. R. Salmon. 2004. "The Unequal Availability of Affordable Assisted Living Units in Florida's Counties. Journal of Applied Gerontology 23 (4): 349-369.

Golant, S. 2004. Low-Income Older Homeowners: A Large Potential Market for Affordable Rental Housing. Multi-Housing News. Available at http://www.multihousingnews.com/multihousing/reports_analysis/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000583215

Golant, S. 2004. Aging in Place:  Are We Romancing the Home? CSA Journal 23: 11-15.

Golant, S. 2004. "Uncertainties persist on assisted living". Aging Today XXV: 1-6.

Golant, S. 2004. "Do Impaired Older Persons with Health Care Needs Occupy U.S. Assisted Living Facilities? An Analysis of Six National Studies". Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 50B (2): S68-S79.

Golant, S. 2003. "Political and Organizational Barriers to Satisfying Low-Income U.S. Seniors Need for Affordable Rental Housing with Supportive Services". Journal of Aging and Social Policy 15 (4): 21-48.

Golant, S. 2003. "Homeownership". In Encyclopedia of Retirement and Finance: Revised and Enlarged Edition, ed. L. A. Vitt, 386-392. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Golant, S. 2003 "The Quiet Crisis Affordable Housing Inadequate for Elders." Aging Today 24 (6): 7-8.

Golant, S. 2003. "Government-Assisted Rental Accommodations:  Should They Accommodate Older Homeowners with Unmet Needs?" Maine Policy Review 12 (2): 36-57.

Golant, S. 2003. "The Urban-Rural Distinction in Gerontology: An Update of Research". In Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, ed. H. W. Wahl, R. Scheidt and P. Windley, 280-312. New York: Springer.

Golant, S. 2003. "Conceptualizing Time and Space in Environmental Gerontology: A Pair of Old Issues Deserving New Thought". The Gerontologist 43 (5): 638-648.

Golant, S. 2003. "The Unmet Housing and Care Needs of Older Americans: A Divided Congressional Commission Issues Its Report". Responses to an Aging Florida: 24-25.

Golant, S. 2002. "The Housing Problems of the Future Elderly Population, Appendix G-1." In Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century, A Quiet Crisis in America: A Report to Congress, 189-370. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Golant, S. 2002. "Deciding Where to Live: The Emerging Residential Settlement Patterns of Retired Americans". Generations 26 (11): 66-73.

Golant, S. 2002. "Geographic Inequalities in the Availability of Government-Subsidized Rental Housing for Low-Income Older Persons in Florida". The Gerontologist 42 (1): 101-108.

Books & Monographs
Golant, S. with J. Hyde, forthcoming 2006. The Assisted Living Residence: A Vision for the Future.  Edited book to be published by John Hopkins University Press.

Golant, S. 2001. Assisted Living: A Potential Solution to Canada's Long-Term Care Crisis. Vancouver, BC: Simon Fraser University, Gerontology Research Centre 85 pages.

Publications of Note:
Golant, S. 1992. Housing America's Elderly: Many Possibilities, Few Choices. Sage Publications.

Graduate Students Currently Supervised

• Adhikari, Sanchayeeta

Biography

STEPHEN M. GOLANT, Ph.D., a gerontologist and geographer, is currently a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida (1980 - present). Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Committee on Human Development (Department of Behavioral Sciences) and in the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago (1972 - 1980). He received his Ph.D. in social geography and social gerontology from the University of Washington in 1972 and his B.A. (1968) and M.A. degrees (1969) in geography from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Golant has been conducting research on the housing, care, mobility, and transportation needs of the elderly population for most of his academic career. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Aging Studies, CSA Journal (Society of Certified Senior Advisors) and Journal of Housing for the Elderly. He was formerly Secretary-Treasurer of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, Responses to an Aging Florida, published by the Florida Council on Aging, and on the Board of Trustees of the Florida Council on Aging. He has written or edited over 100 papers and books, including Housing America's Elderly: Many Possibilities, Few Choices (Sage Publications, 1992) and the CASERA Report (Creating Affordable and Supportive Elder Renter Opportunities), 1999.
He has been a consultant or adviser to various consulting firms, universities, state government agencies, and national organizations including Hearst Business Communications Corporation; the American Association of Homes for the Aging; the American Association for Retired Persons; Bloomington Hospital, Indiana; Buehler Center on Aging, McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Florida Department of Transportation; the Florida Department of Education; the Florida Council on Aging; Margaret Lynn Duggar and Associates; the Quantum Foundation; Palm Beach county, Florida, Area Agency on Aging; Palm Beach County, Florida, Health Care District; the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing, University of Florida; the Florida Policy Exchange Center, University of South Florida; the Florida Task Force on Availability and Affordability of Long-Term Care Report to the Florida Legislature; Assisted Living Options Hawaii, and Econometrica.
He has been a guest on various television and radio programs, including the ABC's national news program 20/20. As a Fulbright Senior Scholar award recipient, Dr. Golant spent the period, January to April 2000, teaching and researching at the Gerontology Centre in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Here he investigated the need and prospects for assisted living facilities in Canada.
During 2001-2002, Dr. Golant was a consultant to the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century (Seniors Commission). The Seniors Commission was a bipartisan 14-member panel created by an act of Congress to study the housing and health care needs for the next generation of elderly Americans and to offer specific policy and legislative recommendations to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He performed original research analyses of the current and future housing and disability status of older Americans; served as a technical advisor regarding data base discussions with government researchers and university researchers; and performed affordability studies of the elderly housing market. During 2003-2004, he was a consultant on a HUD-contracted study exploring the barriers preventing the adoption of HUD's Assisted Living Conversion Program. He is currently contracted with John Hopkins University Press to co-edit a book on the future of America's assisted living residences.
Professor Golant has conducted research in the following areas:

• Assessment of impact of low education on the quality of life of the U.S. elderly
• Assessment of the employment patterns and problems of Florida's older workers
• Elderly consumer assessments of conventional and specialized housing options in the U.S.
• Assessment of physical and financial conditions of housing stock occupied by U.S. elderly
• Assessment of the quality of life of the urban and rural elderly
• Assessment of travel behavior and transportation mode usage of the U.S. and Canadian elderly populations
• Assessment of the walking behavior patterns of elderly pedestrians
• Evaluation of service and long-term care needs of the low-income U.S. elderly
• Evaluation of subjectively experienced residential settings of the U.S. elderly
• Prediction of future housing and service needs of the U.S. elderly
• Evaluation of residential location and migration patterns of the U.S. elderly
• Assessment of the barriers that administrators of rent-assisted developments confront when attempting to provide supportive services to their frail tenants
• Assessment of the geographic inequities in the availability of affordable housing for older persons.
• Facilitator of Nominal Group Technique (NGT) analyses of unresolved issues confronted by professional decision makers including senior agency/department heads of county government, human service professionals, and private sector assisted living/housing developers and property managers. NGT is designed to help small groups of decision-makers problem-solve, generate ideas, and reach consensus on complicated issues.

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