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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
Educational Background
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
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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