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Current search: 'Older People'

  1. La estructura de los hogares de las personas mayores en América Latina y el Caribe [Household structure of older persons in Latin America and the Caribbean]

    Albert Esteve and Pilar Zueras

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Households
    4. Health

  2. Home carers' mental health worsened during lockdown

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  3. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  4. Living longer: older workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

    Ngaire Coombs

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Economics
    6. Public Policy
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Social Stratification
    10. Covid 19

  5. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  6. Area deprivation, perceived neighbourhood cohesion and mental health at older ages: a cross lagged analysis of UK longitudinal data

    Michele Antonio Salvatore and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Psychology

  7. Disease-free life expectancy has not improved in Spain

    Pilar Zueras and Elisenda Rentería

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Health

  8. Fertility trajectories and later-life depression among parents in England

    Emily Grundy, Sanna Read, and Heini Väisänen

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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Social isolation and memory decline in later-life

    Sanna Read, Adelina Comas-Herrera, and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  12. Systematic underestimation of the epigenetic clock and age acceleration in older subjects

    Louis Y. El Khoury, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  13. Market concentration, supply, quality and prices paid by local authorities in the English care home market

    Ferran Espuny Pujol, Ruth Hancock, Morten Hviid, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Economics
    3. Health

  14. The relationship between cognitive decline and a genetic predictor of educational attainment

    Xuejie Ding, Nicola Barban, Felix C. Tropf, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Education
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Genetics

  15. How do participants understand and interpret questions about "retirement planning"?

    Lindsay Abbassian, Beth Dokal, Lucy Joyce, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Household Economics

  16. 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

  17. Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and cognitive capability at older ages: individual participant meta-analysis of five cohorts

    Michael Gardner, Stafford Lightman, Diana Kuh, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  18. Pathways to health

    George B. Ploubidis, Benedetta Pongiglione, Bianca De Stavola, et al.

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

  19. Offspring and later-life loneliness in Eastern and Western Europe

    Thijs van den Broek, Marco Tosi, and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Socio-economic trajectories and cardiovascular disease mortality in older people: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    Silvia Stringhini, Paola Zaninotto, Meena Kumari, et al.

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

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