GH Geographica Helvetica GH Geogr. Helv. 2194-8798 Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/gh-59-258-2004 Retirement communities and housing for the elderly : editorial to the special issue Lucas S. ¹ Schneider-Sliwa R. ² 1 Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 230 Scotland Road, Edinboro, 16444, U. S.A. 2 Geographisches Institut der Universität Basel, Abteilung Humangeographie/Stadt- und Regionalforschung, Klingelbergstrasse 27, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 31 12 2004 59 4 258 260 Copyright: © 2004 S. Lucas 2004 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/59/258/2004/gh-59-258-2004.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/59/258/2004/gh-59-258-2004.pdf