English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请旨在为2010-2014年间的英语老龄化纵向研究(ELSA)提供竞争性资助。ELSA始于2002年，是美国健康和退休调查(HRS)的姊妹研究机构，招募了12,100名50岁及以上的代表英格兰老年人口的男性和女性。ELSA自成立以来一直由NIA提供部分资金，其中一半资金来自一个由英国政府部门组成的财团。这项延长申请是为了资助两波数据收集--第5波(2010/11年度)和第6波(2012/13年度)--以及相关的分析。中心目标是提供必要的数据，以便在人们计划退休、步入退休生活和退休后进步的过程中，探索健康与机能、经济状况、社会参与/网络与福祉之间正在展开的动态关系。ELSA是一项多学科研究，涉及收集经济、流行病学、健康、社会、心理、生理和遗传数据。本应用程序计划的数据收集阶段将极大地增加纵向分析的可能性，以检查因果过程。这项申请的科学议程集中在八个广泛的研究主题上，这些主题在科学上很重要，但也与政策相关。这些是退休和退休后劳动力市场活动的性质和时间；老年人经济福祉的决定因素；老年人的认知功能及其对决策的影响；残疾和发病率的压缩；老龄化人口中的经济、社会和健康不平等；老年人的社会参与和社会生产力；健康和死亡率的遗传、生物和心理社会决定因素之间的相互作用；以及英国和美国老年人健康、经济状况和福祉的轨迹比较。这项建议的具体目标包括：1.设计调查工具，以现有数据为基础，并最大限度地提高与其他国际研究的可比性，如人权状况调查和欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查(SHARE)。2.在第5波招募50至53岁的新一批答复者，以保持跨界别代表性，并研究社会和跨群体趋势。3.在第5波采访约8,400名受访者，在第6波采访约7,400名受访者。4.在第6波收集受访者的生物医学和身体表现数据。向科学和政策研究社区提供7波记录良好的面板数据。6.对ELSA与核心研究主题相关的数据进行分析。 公共卫生相关性：老龄化是公共健康的一个主要问题，来自大量老年男性和女性的纵向数据有助于我们了解残疾、疾病和健康老龄化的演变。多学科英语老龄化纵向研究收集了与政策和科学议程相关的健康和残疾、经济状况、社会参与、认知功能和福祉之间的相互关系的信息。通过对美国、英国和其他国家老龄化动态的国际比较，可以考察制度和文化影响，为检验政策和组织结构的影响提供了机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for competitive funding of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) for the period 2010 - 2014. ELSA started in 2002 as a sister study to the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) in the United States, and recruited 12,100 men and women aged 50 and above who were representative of the older population of England. ELSA has been part-funded by NIA since it began, with half of the funding coming from a consortium of UK Government Departments. This renewal request is to fund two waves of data collection - wave 5 (2010/11) and wave 6 (2012/13) - and associated analyses. The central objective is to provide data necessary for the exploration of the unfolding dynamic relationships between health and functioning, economic position, social participation/networks and well-being, as people plan for, move into and progress beyond retirement. ELSA is a multidisciplinary study, involving the collection of economic, epidemiological, health, social, psychological, physiological and genetic data. The phase of data collection planned in this application will greatly increase the potential for longitudinal analyses so as to examine causal process. The scientific agenda of this application is focused on eight broad research topics that are important scientifically while also being relevant to policy. These are the nature and timing of retirement and post retirement labour market activity; the determinants of economic well-being in older age; cognitive functioning and its impact on decision making among older people; disability and the compression of morbidity; economic, social and health inequalities in an ageing population; social participation and social productivity at older ages; the interaction between genetic, biological, and psychosocial determinants of health and mortality; and comparisons of trajectories of health, economic position and well-being at older ages in England and the USA. The specific objectives of this proposal include the following: 1. Design the survey instruments for further waves of data collection, building on the existing data and maximizing comparability with other international studies, such as HRS and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). 2. Recruit a new cohort of respondents aged 50-53, at wave 5, in order to maintain cross-sectional representativeness and to study social and cross-cohort trends. 3. Interview approximately 8,400 respondents at wave 5 and 7400 respondents at wave 6. 4. Collect biomedical and physical performance data from respondents at wave 6. 5. Provide seven waves of well-documented panel data to the scientific and policy research community. 6. Carry out analyses of the ELSA data relevant to the core research themes. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Aging is a major concern to public health, and longitudinal data from a large sample of aging men and women helps us understand the evolution of disability, illness and healthy aging. The multidisciplinary English Longitudinal Study of Ageing collects information about the interrelationships between health and disability, economic position, social participation, cognitive function and well-being that is relevant both to policy and scientific agendas. International comparisons between the dynamics of aging in the US, UK and other countries allow institutional and cultural influences to be examined, providing opportunities for testing the impact of policies and organisational structures.