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Optimising quality of sleep among older people in the community and care home...
The project sought to produce new knowledge, processes and products with major implications for improving sleep and hence quality of life for older individuals in both the... -
Megaold: Baseline and 2.5 year follow up surveys, of people aged 65+ and 85+ ...
Face-to-face interview survey data from a baseline sample of 1360 people aged 65+ and 85+ living at home in East London and Essex from 1987, about their physical and mental... -
Older people's perceptions and experiences of strengths and vulnerabilities a...
The study used an ethnographic methodological approach, drawing on a number of methods, including 'go-along' tours of the participant's kitchen and accompanied trips to places... -
On the Edge of Later Life, 1930-1990
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The project was carried out between 1991 and 1993 to establish sources of self-identity and relate this... -
Walking interviews exploring the role of neighbourhood in the health and happ...
This qualitative data was collected as part of the Urban ID project (one of the RCUK Urban Living Partnership projects). The data was collected in order to explore neighbourhood... -
A feminist, participatory and assets-based exploration of women's experiences...
Data collections consists of 14 transcripts of interviews with women over the age of 50 in London who are living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). This research adopts a... -
The Life Histories of the Elderly Poor in Late-Victorian England, 1851-1891
This is an individual-level and longitudinal dataset comprising the life histories of men and women aged 60 years and over who were recorded in source materials related to the... -
Data on Medication Adherence in Adults with Neurological Disorders: The Neuro...
In this study, 910 hospitalized older adults (mean age 70.1 years, SD 8.6 years) with neurological disorders (Parkinson's Disease and other movement disorders, N= 303;... -
Old People in Long-Stay Institutions, 1965-1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This study examined the provision and quality of care for elderly people in long-stay institutions. The... -
Adding Quality to Quantity: Quality of Life in Older Age, 2000-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The broad aim of the study was to define the constituents of quality of life in older age. The research... -
United Kingdom Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People, 2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The United Kingdom Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People, carried out by the National Centre for... -
Boomers and Beyond: Intergenerational Consumption and the Mature Imagination,...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This is a mixed methods data collection. The Boomers and Beyond: Intergenerational Consumption and the... -
Attitudes to Pensions Survey, 2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Attitudes to Pensions Survey series aims to investigate attitudes to pensions and private financial... -
Psychometric Testing of the Multidimensional Older People's Quality of Life Q...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Increasing social expectations and concerns about the policy implications of the ageing population have... -
Study of Opinions on the Role of the State in Welfare, 1980-1981
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. To explore public opinion on the role of the state in Welfare, and in particular to consider enthusiam... -
Older People in Europe's Rural Areas (UK Component), 1991
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The data represent the UK contribution to an 8-nation study of ageing in Eastern and Western Europe's... -
Retirement Survey, 1994
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The 1994 Retirement Survey is the second wave of a panel survey designed to examine issues surrounding... -
Family Life of Old People, 1865-1955
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This material formed the basis for Professor Townsend’s classic 1954-55 study which examined the growing... -
Last Refuge, 1958-1959
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This is a qualitative data collection. In the late 1950s Peter Townsend undertook a national study... -
British Migrants in Spain: the Extent and Nature of Social Integration, 2003-...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This project arose out of research conducted during the 1990s (by O'Reilly and others) which explored...