There are few reasons to believe that social segregation is restricted to the working age population. Still, attempts to analyse social segregation among old age individuals have been lacking. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to explore the extent to which old age individuals who follow different sociodemographic trajectories are geographically segregated. We analyse residential segregation among older age adults, based on an identification of typical sociodemographic life courses in longitudinal, geo-coded, register data for three life phases: young old, 65–79 years, middle old, 75–89 years and, oldest old, 85–99 years. The results show great life-course heterogeneity in these age groups. In each life phase, we distinguish seven different trajectory types that also display distinct geographical patterns. The first group of trajectories is characterized by a high proportion of married individuals with high income concentrated in suburban, single-family housing areas. The second group consists of trajectories with many widows/widowers in small-scale, apartment areas. The third group consists of singleton trajectories in metropolitan areas. The fourth group is overrepresented in low-income areas and consists of trajectories including individuals of nonsurvival in the life phase. The fifth group is composed of trajectories with married or widowed low-income individuals in owner-occupied areas mainly found in rural areas. Thus, there is pronounced geographical variation in what type of neighbourhood life old age individuals live. This indicates that social segregation in the old age population deserves to be given more attention in geographical research.

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老年的生命历程轨迹和空间隔离

没有理由相信社会隔离仅限于工作年龄人口。尽管如此，仍然缺乏分析老年人社会隔离的尝试。因此，本文的目的是探讨遵循不同社会人口统计轨迹的老年人在多大程度上被地理隔离。我们分析了老年人中的居住隔离，基于对三个生命阶段的纵向、地理编码、登记数据中典型的社会人口生命历程的识别：青年、65-79 岁、中年、75-89 岁和最年长。老年，85-99 岁。结果显示这些年龄组的生命历程存在很大的异质性。在每个生命阶段，我们区分了七种不同的轨迹类型，它们也显示出不同的地理模式。第一组轨迹的特点是高收入的已婚人士集中在郊区单户住宅区的比例很高。第二组由小规模公寓区内有许多寡妇/鳏夫的轨迹组成。第三组由大都市区的单例轨迹组成。第四组在低收入地区所占比例过高，其轨迹包括生命阶段无法生存的个体。第五组是由已婚或丧偶的低收入个人组成的轨迹，这些人居住在自住地区，主要存在于农村地区。因此，老年人的邻里生活类型存在明显的地理差异。这表明老年人口的社会隔离值得地理学研究给予更多关注。