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Current search: 'Older People'

  1. Social support and trajectories of body mass index and waist to hip ratio from mid-adulthood to old age

    Urszula Tymoszuk, Meena Kumari, Rachel Batterham, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology

  2. Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study – Written evidence (IFP0021) [House of Lords Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision]

    Charlotte Hamilton

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Labour Market
    4. Economics
    5. Savings And Assets
    6. Taxation
    7. Housing Market

  3. Household debt and depressive symptoms among older adults in three continental European countries

    Aapo Hiilamo and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Households
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance

  4. Population priorities for successful aging: a randomized vignette experiment

    Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, and Frank Popham

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  5. Insights 2018-19: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Older People
    3. Social Change
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Surveys
    8. Sociology Of Households

  6. Drivers of poverty entry and persistence among older people in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  7. Fertility history and physical and mental health changes in European older adults

    Katherine Keenan and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  8. Coresidence with a child and happiness among older widows in Europe: does gender of the child matter?

    Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Well Being
    6. Sociology Of Households

  9. Retirement and socioeconomic differences in diurnal cortisol: longitudinal evidence from a cohort of British civil servants

    Tarani Chandola, Patrick Rouxel, Michael G. Marmot, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Biology

  10. Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe

    Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  11. Intergenerational contacts and depressive symptoms among older parents in Eastern Europe

    Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Well Being
    5. Social Behaviour

  12. Parental health limitations, caregiving and loneliness among women with widowed parents: longitudinal evidence from France

    Thijs van den Broek and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Caregiving

  13. MINDMAP: establishing an integrated database infrastructure for research in ageing, mental well-being, and the urban environment

    Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Dany Doiron, Isabel Fortier, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Urban Sociology
    5. Geography
    6. Research
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Surveys

  14. Associations of successful aging with socioeconomic position across the life-course: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 prospective cohort study

    Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, and Frank Popham

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification

  15. Changes in spending and labor supply in response to a Social Security benefit cut: evidence from stated choice

    Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  16. Causal effects of the timing of life-course events: age at retirement and subsequent health

    Nicola Barban, X. de Luna, E. Lundholm, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis

  17. In or out? Poverty dynamics among older individuals in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics

  18. Vitamin D and cognitive function: a Mendelian randomisation study

    Jane Maddock, Ang Zhou, Alana Cavadino, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Genetics

  19. Grandmothers' labor supply

    Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Caregiving

  20. The health benefits of a targeted cash transfer: the UK Winter Fuel Payment

    Thomas F. Crossley and Federico Zilio

    1. Older People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  21. Epigenetic profiles, ageing and social position

    Amanda Hughes

    1. Older People
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  22. Population ageing in Europe

    Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  23. Essays in labour economics: school leaving, unemployment and retirement -PhD thesis-

    Alberto Tumino

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Life Course Analysis

  24. Essays in the microeconometric evaluation of public policies -PhD thesis-

    Federico Zilio

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Health
    8. Housing Market
    9. Biology

  25. Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe

    Asghar Zaidi, Katrin Gasior, Eszter Zolyomi, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Policy

  26. Eliciting survival expectations of the elderly in low-income countries: evidence from India

    Adeline Delavande, Jinkook Lee, and Seetha Menon

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification

  27. To defer or not defer? UK state pension and work decisions in a lifecycle model

    Ricky Kanabar and Peter Simmons

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Labour Market
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Household Economics
    6. Life Course Analysis

  28. Comparison of the Rowe–Kahn model of successful aging with self-rated health and life satisfaction: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 prospective cohort study

    Elise Whitley, Frank Popham, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  29. The relationship between physical activity, sleep duration and depressive symptoms in older adults: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

    Victoria Garfield, Clare H. Llewellyn, and Meena Kumari

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sport

  30. Variations in cognitive abilities across the life course: cross-sectional evidence from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Elise Whitley, Ian J. Deary, Stuart J. Ritchie, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

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