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Financial circumstances, health and well-being of the older population in England
— the 2008 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Wave 4) | | Author(s) | James Banks, Carli Lessof, James Nazroo |
| Corporate Author | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ELSA |
| Publisher | Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS, London, 2010 |
| Pages | 428 pp |
| Source | The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. E-mail: mailbox@ifs.org.uk Weblink: http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5315 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | This report of the wave 4 study uses data collected in 2008-09, a period coinciding with the economic downturn which will have affected the distributions of many of the measures collected. The data is based on interviews with 10,860 people. Design and collection was carried out as a collaboration between the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. This and previous ELSA reports present a detailed picture of the lives of people in England aged 50 and over. This report examines the following themes: employment, retirement and pensions; financial circumstances and consumption; well-being in older age; sleep duration and sleep disturbance; health and social engagement among the oldest old; trends in disability; health risk and health protective biological measures in later life; and receipt and giving of help and care. An introduction by Michael Marmot and Mai Stafford notes that the amount that people over 50 in England spend on life's basics - food, fuel and clothing - has increased significantly in the last 4-5 years. The poorest are the most affected, with a quarter of households experienced a 10 percentage point or more increase in the share of their income devoted to basics between 2004/5 and 2008/9. Spending on domestic fuel alone rose by more than a third in real terms over this period. The next two waves of ELSA will take place in 2010-11 (wave 5) and 2012-13 (wave 6). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101027002 E |
| Classmark | BG: CC: F: 3J: 82 |
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