Living in the 21st century: older people in England
THE 2006 ENGLISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING (Wave 3)
Editors: James Banks, Elizabeth Breeze, Carli Lessof and James Nazroo
The findings from the third wave of the survey were published in July 2008. The individual chapters and their annexes of data tables can be downloaded below; or download the full report [3.6 MB]. To buy a printed copy (£40), please contact the Institute for Fiscal Studies at mailbox@ifs.org.uk or by telephone on 020 7291 4800.
Chapter 1: Introduction; Summary of chapters
Elizabeth Breeze and Michael Marmot, University College London
Chapter 2: Extending working lives
James Banks, Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London; Gemma Tetlow, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Chapter 3: Physical functioning in a community context
Elizabeth Breeze, University College London; Iain A. Lang, Peninsula Medical School
Chapter 4: Financial resources and well-being
Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Alastair Muriel, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Chapter 5: Investigating the dynamics of social detachment in older age
Wojtek Tomaszewski, National Centre for Social Research; Matt Barnes, National Centre for Social Research
Chapter 6: Resilience in older age: a depression-related approach
Panayotes Demakakos, University College London; Gopalakrishnan Netuveli; Noriko Cable, Imperial College, University College London; David Blane, Imperial College
Chapter 7: Anthropomorphic measures and health
Paola Zaninotto, University College London; Cesar de Oliveira, University College London; Meena Kumari, University College London
Chapter 8: Mortality and healthy life expectancy
James Nazroo; Paola Zaninotto, University College London; Edlira Gjonça
Chapter 9: Methodology
Shaun Scholes, National Centre for Social Research; Kate Cox, National Centre for Social Research; Carli Lessof, National Centre for Social Research
ISBN: 978-1-903274-54-5; Institute for Fiscal Studies, July 2008.
