The impact of living in age diverse areas on health and well-being

生活在不同年龄的地区对健康和福祉的影响

• 批准号: ES/W007657/1
• 负责人: Martin Hyde
• 金额: $ 16.77万
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW007657%2F1
• 关键词: impact; living; age; diverse; areas

There is evidence that Britain is becoming more and more generationally divided. A major part of this is that the places where we live have become increasingly 'age segregated'. This means younger people tend to live in places where there are more younger people and older people tend to live in places where there are more older people. Deep generational divisions can have implications for social cohesion and effective societal functioning. Policy makers are concerned that this could have negative health, economic, social and political costs. Indeed, a recent report by the Resolution Foundation estimated that age-segregation could cost the UK economy £6 billion per year. However, there is currently no research in Britain that has been able to directly test whether living in areas with a greater mix of ages has an impact on people. By linking information on the number of people in different age groups at the local level with information from a long running survey, our project will be the first to do this. We will create a new measure, called the 'area level index of age diversity', for all the residential areas in Great Britain (these are called Lower Super Output Areas in England and Wales and Data Zones in Scotland). Unlike existing measures which tend to focus just on younger versus older adults, this new measure will use information from people of all ages to get a better idea of the mix of age groups in an area. The first thing we intend to do with this information is to produce a series of maps of Britain to show which local areas are more or less age diverse. This information will be very useful for local government, councils, city planners and the like. Once we have done this, we will then link our new measure of age diversity to information on around 50,000 people living in Britain who have been part of a long running study (called the UK Household Longitudinal Survey). This will enable us to see whether living in areas that have people from a wide (or narrow) range of age groups impacts on people's health (e.g. whether the person has an illness or chronic condition), well-being (e.g. loneliness), civic participation (e.g. whether someone volunteers or not), and neighbourhood quality (e.g. whether people trust their neighbours). Our findings will provide a much needed evidence base on the extent of local area level age diversity in Britain and what effect (if any) this has on people's lives.

有证据表明，英国的代际分化越来越严重。其中一个主要原因是，我们生活的地方变得越来越“年龄隔离”。这意味着年轻人倾向于住在年轻人较多的地方，老年人倾向于住在老年人较多的地方。深刻的代际分化可能对社会凝聚力和有效的社会运作产生影响。决策者担心，这可能会产生负面的健康、经济、社会和政治成本。事实上，决议基金会最近的一份报告估计，年龄隔离可能会使英国经济每年损失60亿英镑。然而，目前在英国还没有一项研究能够直接测试生活在年龄更大的地区是否会对人们产生影响。通过将当地不同年龄组的人口数量信息与长期调查的信息联系起来，我们的项目将是第一个这样做的项目。我们将创建一个新的衡量标准，称为“年龄多样性的区域水平指数”，适用于英国所有的住宅区（这些地区在英格兰和威尔士被称为低超级产出区，在苏格兰被称为数据区）。与只关注年轻人和老年人的现有测量方法不同，这项新测量方法将使用来自所有年龄段的人的信息来更好地了解一个地区的年龄组组合。我们打算用这些信息做的第一件事是制作一系列英国地图，以显示哪些地方或多或少存在年龄差异。这些信息对地方政府、议会、城市规划者等非常有用。一旦我们做到了这一点，我们就会把我们的年龄多样性的新测量方法与生活在英国的大约5万人的信息联系起来，这些人是一项长期研究（称为英国家庭纵向调查）的一部分。这将使我们能够看到，生活在年龄范围广泛（或狭窄）的地区，是否会对人们的健康（例如，该人是否患有疾病或慢性疾病）、福祉（例如，孤独）、公民参与（例如，是否有人自愿）和社区质量（例如，人们是否信任邻居）产生影响。我们的发现将为英国当地年龄多样性的程度以及这对人们生活的影响（如果有的话）提供急需的证据。

项目成果

THE IMPACT OF LIVING IN MULTIGENERATIONAL NEIGHBOURHOODS ON LONELINESS IN LATER LIFE

• DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igad104.1931
• 发表时间: 2023-12-21
• 期刊: Innovation in Aging
• 影响因子: 7

MEASURING MULTIGENERATIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS

• DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igad104.2638
• 发表时间: 2023-12-21
• 期刊: Innovation in Aging
• 影响因子: 7