The Pathways to Life Quality Study is designed to promote understanding of patterns of housing choices and residential transitions over the life course. The Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) Study started in the fall of 1995 when Professor John A. Krout of Ithaca College and Professor Phyllis Moen of Cornell University developed a survey to administer to individuals planning to move into this new community. In the summer of 1997 these people were surveyed again, about a year and a half after their move to the CCRC. In the fall of 1997 Krout and Moen developed a more elaborate research design and began collecting data from almost 800 more individuals ages 60 and over living in a variety of different housing arrangements.