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Living in the 21st century: older people in England
— the 2006 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Wave 3); [with an introduction by Michael Marmot] | | Author(s) | James Banks, Elizabeth Breeze, Carli Lessof |
| Corporate Author | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ELSA |
| Publisher | Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS, London, 2008 |
| Pages | 303 pp |
| Source | The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. E-mail: mailbox@ifs.org.uk Website: http://www.ifs.org.uk/elsa/report_wave3.php |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | This third wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) was collected in 2006-07, and was run primarily by the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). The present study includes research on five key areas: employment and the reasons older people move into or out of work; financial resources, well-being, and which groups are more likely to live in poverty; influences on the onset of ill health and disability, and what shortens life expectancy from a community perspective; investigating the dynamics of social detachment and exclusion in older age; and a depression-related approach to resilience in older age. Further chapters consider anthropometric measures in relation to health; mortality and life expectancy; and methodology. There is now up to eight years of ELSA data tracking the health, wealth and social characteristics of people aged 50+ in England. These are deposited in the Economic and Social Data Service Archive (www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080717001 B |
| Classmark | BG: CC: F: 3J: 82 |
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