Ageing

We document employment rates of older men and women in the UK over the last forty years. In both cases growth in employment since the mid 1990s has been stronger than for younger age groups. On average, older men are still less likely to be in work than they were in the mid 1970s although this is not true for those with low education. We highlight issues with using years of schooling as a measure of educational achievement for analysing labour market trends at older ages, not least because a large proportion of men who left school at young ages without any formal qualifications, have subsequently acquired some.

This paper estimates how much additional work capacity there might be among men and women aged between 55 and 74 in the United Kingdom, given their health, and how this has evolved over the last decade.

In this paper we describe the history of state pension policy in the UK since the introduction of the State Pension in 1948. We calculate simple summary measures of the generosity of the system over time and of the degree to which the system has created implicit taxes on, or subsidies to, work at older ages.

Health behaviour changes after type 2 diabetes diagnosis: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Loneliness does (not) have cardiometabolic effects: A longitudinal study of older adults in two countries

Unexpected death in ill old age: An analysis of disadvantaged dying in the English old population.

Risk of dementia associated with cardiometabolic abnormalities and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal cohort study using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Gender-specific risk factors for incident sarcopenia: 8-year follow-up of the English longitudinal study of ageing

Health literacy, cognitive ability and smoking: a cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

An application of Bayesian measurement invariance to modelling cognition over time in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Trajectories of allostatic load among older Americans and Britons: longitudinal cohort studies

Longitudinal associations between psychological well-being and the consumption of fruits and vegetables.

This report describes analyses of data that have been collected in all waves of ELSA, particularly the eighth and most recent that took place in 2016–17. In wave 8, data collection included a standard face-to-face interview and a self-completion questionnaire, both of which have been used in previous waves of the study, together with a nurse visit to collect biological measures on half the sample.

Cataract surgery and age-related cognitive decline: A 13-year follow-up of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Depressive symptoms predict incident chronic disease burden 10 years later: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Lifestyle changes associated with participation in colorectal cancer screening: Prospective data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Television viewing, C-reactive protein, and depressive symptoms in older adults

Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for dementia death: individual participant meta-analysis of 86 508 men and women from the UK

Loneliness, social isolation and risk of cardiovascular disease in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing