Findings so far

Please see a summary of findings from Wave 2, Wave 3, Wave 4 ELSA newsletters and also the W3 report.

Further research using ELSA

The links below will take you to some of the very interesting work that has already been done using the data collected from ELSA participants. You can read more at the ELSA section of the Institute of Fiscal Studies website.

• Health, wealth and lifestyles of the older population in England: The 2002 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
  (Marmot, M., Banks, J., Blundell, R., Lessof, C. & Nazroo, J. 2003. Institute for Fiscal Studies).
• Retirement, health and relationships of the older population in England: The 2004 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Wave 2) (Banks, J., Breeze, E., Lessof, C. & Nazroo, J. (Eds) 2006.).
• The Social Exclusion of Older People: Evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) – Final Report. (Barnes, M., Blom, A., Cox, K., Lessof, C. & Walker, A. 2006)
• Longitudinal Study of Ageing reveals health and wealth relationship (UCL, 7 July 2006)
• Middle-aged English people are healthier than their American Counterparts (UCL, 3 May 2006)
• Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England (Banks, J., Marmot, M., Oldfield, Z. & Smith, J.P., 2006. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 295 (17) pp 2037-2045.
• Are Retirement Resources Adequate? (IFS, 11 October 2005)
• Housing-Rich, Income Poor – The potential of housing wealth in old age (Sodha, S. 2005. Institute for Public Policy Research).

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Studies of ageing across the globe

Studies of ageing and older people take place in a wide range of countries. You may find it interesting to have a look at some of these:

Europe

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Berlin Ageing Study (BASE)

The Betula Project

Italian National Research Council Targeted Project on Ageing

The Rotterdam Study

The Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (SATSA)

The Swedish National Study of Aging and Research in Kungsholmen (SNACK)

North America

Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

Canadian Study of Health and Aging

Fredericton 80+ Study

Georgia Centenarian Study

The Health and Retirement Study

The New England Centenarian Study

The Seattle Longitudinal Study

The Victoria Longitudinal Study

Central and South America

Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)

Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions (PREHCO) Project

Health, Wellbeing and Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE)

Australasia

The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Canberra Longitudinal Study

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