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Social exclusion of older people
— evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) | | Author(s) | Matt Barnes, Annelie Blom, Kate Cox |
| Corporate Author | Social Exclusion Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM; National Centre for Social Research - NCSR; University of Sheffield |
| Journal title | New Horizons Research Summary, no 1, January 2006 |
| Publisher | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM, January 2006 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | ODPM Publications Centre, PO Box 236, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7NB. E-mail: odpm@twoten.press.net Website: www.odp.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Isolation ; Poor elderly ; Ageing process ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | The study of exclusion experienced by older people is relatively new, as hitherto, most research has focused on exclusion by people of working age or families with children. The research on which this summary is based uses data for 2002-2003 from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), a large-scale survey of people aped 50+ living in England. The broad aim of the study was to see whether insights about social exclusion could be drawn from this relatively new data source in a way that might strengthen existing knowledge about the particular experiences of exclusion among older people. The main objective of this short project was to measure the patterns of different forms of social exclusion among older people and to examine the key risk factors or indicators of social exclusion among older people. The research, which was carried out at the National Centre for Social Research (NCSR) and the University of Sheffield, was jointly funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) under the New Horizons Programme. The full report (same title) is available on the ODPM website, http://www.odpm.gov.uk/researchandstatistics. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-060130003 A |
| Classmark | TP: F:W6: BG: 3J: 82 * |
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