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Tag Archives: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Low Socio-Economic Status: a Possible Dementia Risk Factor? (JAMA Psychiatry / The Mental Elf)
Summary Data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing was used to analyse potential associations between markers of socioeconomic status (wealth quintiles and the index of multiple deprivation) and the incidence of dementia. It appears that dementia incidence is associated with low levels of … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Mental Health, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Austerity, Dementia Risk Factors, Department of Behavioural Science and Health: University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (University College London), ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Environmental Risk Factors, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health, JAMA Psychiatry, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Low Socio-Economic Status: Likely Dementia Risk Factor, Medical School: University of Exeter, Mental Health: Epidemiology and Statistics, Modifiable Risk Factors, Overlapping Risk Factors, Risk Factors, School of Health Sciences: University of Surrey, Social Epidemiology, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Socio-Economic Patterning, Socio-Economic Status, Socio-Environmental Risk Factors, Socio-Environmental Risk Factors for Dementia, The Mental Elf, University College London, University of Exeter, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Surrey
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Happiness Research, Geography (Economics?) and Ageing (BBC News / Lancet / JGCR)
Summary In the affluent Western countries, including the UK and the US, measurable life satisfaction follows a U-shape curve, dipping to a low in midlife but rising again in later life (despite physical ageing). Life satisfaction in Africa tends to … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Cantril Ladder, Caribbean Countries, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (University College London), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science: Stony Brook University, Eastern Europe, ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Epidemiology and Statistics, Eudemonic Wellbeing, Eudemonic Wellbeing and Mortality, Eudemonic Wellbeing and Survival, Evaluative Wellbeing, Former Soviet Union, Generosity and Happiness, Geography (Economics?) and Ageing, Happiness in Old Age, Happiness Research, Hedonic Wellbeing, High-Income English-Speaking Countries, Journal of Geriatric Care and Research (JGCR), Lancet, Latin America, Life Satisfaction, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Perception of Ageing, Personal Resilience, Princeton University, Resilience, Social Connectedness, Social Epidemiology, Social Gerontology, Stony Brook University (USA), Subjective Wellbeing, Subjective Wellbeing Health and Ageing, Third Age, Training for Happiness, Unhappiness in Old Age, United States, University College London, University of Southern California, USA, Well-Being Indicators, Well-Being Surveys, Wellbeing, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population, Wellbeing and Longevity, Wellbeing in Later Life, Wellbeing in Older People, Wellbeing Indexes, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics: Princeton University
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Poor Health Contributes to Loneliness in Older People (BBC News)
Summary The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) has interviewed more than 8,000 older people at two-yearly intervals since 2002. It has discovered a strong association between feelings of loneliness and poor health and disability in people aged 52 and over using 2009–2010 ELSA … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age and Ageing, Ageing, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageing Well, ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Office of National Statistics (ONS), Social Isolation
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Decline in Adults Aged Over 50 (NHS Choices / Age and Ageing)
Summary The NHS Choices “Behind the Headlines” service has released a number of critical appraisals during 2012 about elderly care and dementia-related topics which have appeared in the news. Reference Full Text Link (a) Smoking ‘rots brain’ causing mental decline. … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age and Ageing, Behind the Headlines, Cardiovascular Risk, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Decline, Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Cognitive Decline, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Epidemiology, Framingham Risk Scores, Framingham Stroke Risk Score (FSR), Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Kings College London, Modifiable Risk Factors, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at King's College London, PHE: Public Health England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Professor Kevin Fenton: Director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England, Professor Kevin Fenton: PHE Director for Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England (PHE), Risk Factors, Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke, Smoking, Stop the Rot Campaign, Systolic Blood Pressure
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Measuring National Wellbeing (House of Commons Library)
[A brief reference to this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012]. Summary There is an increasing interest worldwide in measuring and monitoring wellbeing, whether at the individual, social … Continue reading
Posted in For Researchers (mostly), International, National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Big Society, CASP-19, Centre for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D), Characteristics of Volunteers, Economic Policy, ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Feeling Appreciated in Volunteering, House of Commons Library, Incomes and Poverty, Individual Wellbeing, International Organisations, Limitations of Economic Indicators, Measuring National Wellbeing, National Wellbeing, Objective Wellbeing, Office of Science & Technology POSTnote, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Participation, POST Notes: POST PN 421, POST: Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, POSTnote No.421, POSTnotes, Public Administration, Reciprocity and Wellbeing, Royal Voluntary Service (Formerly the WRVS), Social Gerontology, Social Group Wellbeing, Socially Productive Activities, Statistics Policy, Stiglitz Commission, Subjective Wellbeing, Third Age, Third Sector, Voluntary and Community Action, Volunteering, Volunteering and Wellbeing in Later Life, Volunteers, Wellbeing, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population, Wellbeing in Later Life, Wellbeing Indexes, WRVS, WRVS Re-Launched as Royal Voluntary Service
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