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Retirement, health and relationships of the older population in England
— the 2004 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Wave 2) | | Author(s) | James Banks, Elizabeth Breeze, Carli Lessof |
| Corporate Author | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ELSA |
| Publisher | Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS, London, July 2006 |
| Pages | 383 pp |
| Source | The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. http://www.ifs.org.uk/elsa/report06/elsa_w2.pdf |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | The data in this report comprise the second set of results to be released from the most comprehensive study into the economic, social, psychological and health elements of the ageing process in Europe, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). This multidisciplinary study follows the life experiences of a cohort of people born before 1952 through detailed interviews on many aspects of their lives at two-year intervals. In the 2004 study, 8,780 people were interviewed on aspects which included health, work, spending, receipt of healthcare, social participation and cognitive ability. In particular, the report examines an important aspect of diversity: how each of these areas varies according to an individual's level of wealth. Among key findings to emerge from the 2004 wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) results is that individuals who are age 50-59 and from the poorest fifth of the population are over 10 times more likely to die than their peers from the richest fifth. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100208201 E |
| Classmark | BG: CC: F: 3J: 82 |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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