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The social exclusion of older people : evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
 — Final report
Author(s)Matt Barnes, Annelies Blom, Kate Cox
Corporate AuthorDepartment for Communities and Local Government - DCLG; Social Exclusion Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM; National Centre for Social Research - NCSR; University of Sheffield
PublisherOffice of the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM; Department for Communities and Local Government - DCLG, 26 January 2006
Pages113 pp
SourceDownload from DCLG website: E21TheSocialExclusionofOlderPeopleSecondaryAnalysisoftheEnglishLongitudinalStudg_id1163271.pdf
KeywordsIsolation ; Poor elderly ; Ageing process ; Longitudinal surveys ; England.
AnnotationThe 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 aged 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. There is a summary of the full report "The Social Exclusion of Older People: Future Trends and Policies - Think Piece" also available on the DCLG website. (RH/KJ).
Accession NumberCPA-061213201 E
ClassmarkTP: F:W6: BG: 3J: 82

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