Dr. Stephen Golant
Professor
golant@geog.ufl.edu
or smgolant@gmail.com
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
- Executive Summary of The CASERA Project (.pdf format)
- Complete report of The CASERA Project (.pdf format)
- Most recent book—The Assisted Living Residence: A Vision for the Future http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9001.html
- Most recent study on Affordable Clustered Housing-Care—Issue Brief by Academy Health sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund
- Most recent study on the
perils of Groupthink attitudes toward older people's aging in place
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 Fall 2008 (Syllabus).
- GEO 3611 Housing, People, and Places in a Spatially Diverse America FALL, 2008 (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. M. 2008. “Irrational Exuberance for the Aging in Place of Vulnerable Low-Income Older Homeowners: A Commentary.” Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Vol. 20, No. 4, forthcoming.
- Golant, S. M.
2008. “Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Category of Long-Term Care
Options
for the Elderly Poor,” Journal of Housing
for the Elderly, Vol. 22, Nos. 1/2:
pp. 3-44.
- Golant, S. M.
2008. “Low Income Elderly Homeowners in Very Old Dwellings: The Need for Public Policy Debate,” Journal of Aging and Social Policy,
Vol.
20, No. 1: pp. 1-28.
- Golant, S. M.
2006 “Supportive Housing for
Frail,
Low-Income Older Adults: Identifying Need and Allocating Resources, Generations,
Vol. 24, No. 4: pp. 37-43.
- Golant, S. M.
2005. "Specialized Housing/House with Supportive Services," Encyclopedia
of Aging, Fourth Edition.
- Golant, S. M.
2005. Subjective Health and the Dangers of Absent Individual Effects
and Crude
Contextual Proxies of Causal Mechanisms. Journal of Gerontology:
Social
Sciences 60B (4): pp. S191-S192.
- Golant, S. M.
2005. Housing. In Working with Seniors: Health, Financial, and
Social Issues,
ed. E. J. Pittock. Denver, CO: Society of Certified Senior
Advisors.
- Golant, S.
M.,
with J. R. Salmon. 2004. "The Unequal Availability of Affordable
Assisted
Living Units in Florida's Counties. Journal of Applied Gerontology
23
(4): pp. 349-369.
- Golant, S. M.
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
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- Golant, S. M.
with J. Hyde, 2008. The Assisted Living Residence: A Vision for the
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Baltimore, MD.: The John Hopkins University Press.
- Golant, S. M. 2001. Assisted Living: A Potential Solution to Canada's Long-Term Care Crisis. Vancouver, BC: Simon Fraser University, Gerontology Research Centre 85 pages.
- Golant, S. M. 1992. Housing America's Elderly: Many Possibilities, Few Choices. Sage Publications.
Graduate Students Currently Supervised
- None
Biography
Dr. Golant has been conducting research on the housing, care, mobility, community, and transportation needs of the older adult population for most of his academic career. He has written or edited over 100 papers and books, including Location and Environment of Elderly Population (Wiley, 1979), A Place to Grow: The Meaning of Environment in Old Age (Columbia University Press, 1984), Housing America's Elderly: Many Possibilities, Few Choices (Sage Publications, 1992), and the CASERA Report (Creating Affordable and Supportive Elder Renter Alternatives), 1999. His latest book (with Dr. Joan Hyde), The Assisted Living Residence: A Vision for the Future was published in June, 2008 by The John Hopkins University Press.
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), Journal of Housing for the Elderly, and Seniors Housing & Care Journal. 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 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. In March, 2006 he was appointed to the Research Advisory Panel for the Reverse Mortgages for Long-Term Care project, sponsored by the U.S. Administration on Aging and the U.S. Health and Human Services.
He has been a consultant or adviser to various firms, universities, state government agencies, and national organizations. In 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; and performed affordability studies of the elderly housing market. Other clients have included: 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, Econometrica, and The Lewin Group.
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