English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

说明（由申请人提供）：此申请是为2010 - 2014年期间的英国老龄化纵向研究（ELSA）申请竞争性资助。ELSA开始于2002年，是美国健康与退休调查（HRS）的姊妹研究，招募了12100名年龄在50岁及以上的男性和女性，他们是英格兰老年人口的代表。ELSA自成立以来一直由NIA提供部分资金，其中一半资金来自英国政府部门的一个财团。这一更新请求是为了资助两波数据收集——第五波（2010/11）和第六波（2012/13）——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、步入退休和超越退休之后，探索健康与功能、经济地位、社会参与/网络和福祉之间不断发展的动态关系。ELSA是一项多学科研究，涉及收集经济、流行病学、卫生、社会、心理、生理和遗传数据。本应用程序中计划的数据收集阶段将大大增加纵向分析的潜力，以便检查因果过程。本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，同时也与政策相关。这些是退休和退休后劳动力市场活动的性质和时间；老年人经济福利的决定因素；老年人认知功能及其对决策的影响残疾和发病率的压缩；人口老龄化中的经济、社会和保健不平等；老年社会参与和社会生产力；健康和死亡率的遗传、生物和社会心理决定因素之间的相互作用；以及英国和美国老年人的健康、经济地位和福祉轨迹的比较。这项建议的具体目标包括：在现有数据的基础上，设计调查工具，以便进一步收集数据，并最大限度地提高与其他国际研究（如人力资源调查和欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查）的可比性。2. 在第5波招募50-53岁的新队列受访者，以保持横断面代表性，并研究社会和跨队列趋势。3. 在第5波和第6波分别采访了大约8400名和7400名受访者。4. 收集第6波受访者的生物医学和身体表现数据。5. 向科学和政策研究界提供七波有据可查的小组数据。6. 对与核心研究主题相关的ELSA数据进行分析。

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.