Title

The social exclusion of older people: Evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2006

Subject Area

Population - Aged

Abstract

The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) is an interdisciplinary data resource on health, economic position and quality of life as people age. This summary presents the key findings of a study on the social exclusion of older people. The study uses 2002-3 data from ELSA. The broad aim of the study was to see whether insights about social exclusion could be drawn from this relatively new data source in a way that might strengthen existing knowledge about the particular experiences of exclusion among older people. The main objective of this project was to measure the patterns of different forms of social exclusion among older people and to examine the key risk factors, or indicators, of social exclusion among older people. [Country: UK]