Category: Inequality

Regional and sociodemographic inequalities in disability incidence

by Web team (LB) | Jul 30, 2024 | Disability, Inequality, Past projects, Prevention

It is important to understand differences in rates of disability across England, particularly for healthcare planning and promoting healthy ageing that is fair for everyone.

Longer working lives

by Web team (LB) | Jul 30, 2024 | Current projects, Inequality, Long term conditions, Prevention

Exploring the impact of UK State Pension Age rises on the health and wellbeing of specific population sub-groups in a post-COVID context.

Digitalisation of health and social care services for older adults

by Web team (LB) | Jun 30, 2024 | COVID-19, Digital, Inequality, Past projects

Advancing understanding of how health and care services have been digitalised during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Preferences for new models of social care

by Web team (LB) | May 30, 2024 | Care, Inequality, Past projects, Prevention

Working to understand current preferences for different aspects and models of social care, and how those preferences might change in the future.

Interventions to prevent hospital admissions in long-term care facilities: a rapid review of economic evidence

by Web team (DM) | May 1, 2024 | Care, Economics, Inequality, Prevention, Publications

Summarising the economic evidence surrounding effective interventions to reduce hospital attendances and admissions for people living in long-term care facilities.

Interventions for cold homes: a rapid review of the health impacts

by Web team (DM) | Apr 5, 2024 | Healthy ageing, Inequality, Prevention, Publications

Identifying interventions designed to improve heating and temperatures within homes.

Trends in life expectancy and healthy life years at birth and age 65 in the UK, 2008–2016, and other countries of the EU28

by Web team (DM) | Apr 2, 2024 | Disability, Healthy ageing, Inequality, Life expectancy, Publications

Calculating and comparing sex-specific healthy life years, unhealthy life years (ULY), and mild and severe ULY at birth and age 65.

Characteristics of older unpaid carers in England: a study of social patterning from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

by Web team (DM) | Mar 10, 2024 | Care, Healthy ageing, Inequality, Publications

Describing the characteristics of older people who provide unpaid care and how these vary by socioeconomic position.

Preferences of people 50 years and older when thinking of their future care needs

by Web team (DM) | Feb 1, 2024 | Care, Inequality, Prevention, Publications

Understanding preferences for different aspects of models of social care for older people, and exploring how those preferences might change in the future if their care needs increase.