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Living in the 21st Century: Older People in England The 2006 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Living in the 21st Century: Older People in England The 2006 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. 16 July 2008. Funded by:. National Institute for Aging UK government departments (coordinated by ONS) Currently : Department of Health Department for Work and Pensions

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Living in the 21st Century: Older People in England The 2006 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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  1. Living in the 21st Century: Older People in EnglandThe 2006 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 16 July 2008

  2. Funded by: • National Institute for Aging • UK government departments (coordinated by ONS) Currently: • Department of Health • Department for Work and Pensions • Department for Transport • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • Communities and Local Government • ONS • Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

  3. A joint venture between UCL, NatCen & IFS Investigators from Universities of Manchester and Cambridge Thanks also to: our Advisory Group our consultants and advisors our collaborators

  4. Key Research Areas • Health trajectories, disability and healthy life expectancy • Two-way relationship between economic position and health • Other determinants of economic position in older age • Timing of retirement + post retirement labour market activity • Nature of social networks, support and participation • Household and family structure • Predictors of wellbeing

  5. HSE + Nurse 1998-1999-2001 Born before 01/03/1952 Est 18660 HSE + Nurse 2001-02-03-04 Born 1952-6 ELSA Wave One 2002 Main Interview (11392 core) Wave Two 2004 Main (8780 core) Wave Two 2004 Nurse (7666) HSE + Nurse 2006 Born 1933-1958 Wave Three 2006 Main (7535 core +1276 refresher core) Life history 2007 (7859) Wave Four 2008 Main (aim c 10100) Wave Four 2008 Nurse

  6. PSA 17: Tackle poverty and promote greater independence & wellbeing in later life 5 key areas • Making contribution in society, esp. through employment • Material wellbeing, esp, tackle pensioner poverty • Level of health • Satisfaction with home & neighbourhood – interpret to include quality of life • Ability to maintain independent living

  7. Employment Trends in employment among those pre State Pension Age Expectations of employment versus actual Predictors of employment Work disability

  8. Material wellbeing • Who is poor and does poverty persist? • How has wealth changed over time?

  9. Level of health • Body weight and waist circumference – important factors for future health • Physical functioning & mortality – not randomly distributed • Healthy life expectancy

  10. Quality of life • Who has higher quality of life • Who does better in change in quality of life over time • Notion of resilience to adversity – is this a rare phenomenon or not

  11. Independent living • Participation in society if have difficulties in physical functioning • Social detachment – does it persist, what predicts its existence

  12. In the public domain • Wave 1 2002-3; report Marmot et al 2003 • Wave 2 2004-5; report Banks et al 2006 • Wave 3 2006-7; report Banks et al 2008 At academic archive for access: Datasets from Wave 0 (HSE years) Wave 1, Wave 2, Wave 3 . Life history due soon Index file (tracing everyone through from HSE)

  13. websites • www.ifs.org.uk/elsa • http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/access/elsa/l5050.asp • www.natcen.ac.uk/elsa

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