Is Ageing Changing? Health, healthy life and cognition across generations.

经济和社会规划对现代经济中保健和福利服务的有效运作至关重要。提高公共服务质量需要提供高质量的数据和趋势信息。这不仅仅是为了了解人口的年龄和性别结构。为了有效地规划服务，中央政府、地方政府、国家卫生服务机构以及私人和志愿组织的政策制定者需要能够获得对老年人口中不同亚群的健康水平和不良健康水平、可获得的社会支持水平以及老年人总体健康状况、精神和身体残疾以及长期生存的趋势的良好预测。关于痴呆症的信息在卫生和社会服务的规划中特别重要，因为它可能会因为一个人而对个人及其家庭产生毁灭性的影响？S增加了对他人的身体、心理、情感和社会依赖。拟议的研究将提高作出规划决定所依据的数据的质量，并提高我们对不同社会和地理群体的健康和疾病趋势的了解，特别是在预期寿命延长的情况下。申请者将希望在不同的论坛上与政策制定者以及服务消费者及其代表或倡导者直接接触，以确保公众广泛理解对数据的科学解释。我们将通过与利益相关者和消费者团体的讨论，以及通过让其他利益相关者参与研究管理来实现这一点。

Economic and social planning is essential for the efficient operation of health and welfare services in modern economies. Improving the quality of public services requires the availability of high quality data and trend information. This is not just about knowing the age and sex structure of the population. To plan services efficiently policy makers in central government, local government, the National Health service, and in private and voluntary organisations need to have access to good forecasts of the levels of health and ill health within different sub-groups in the older population, the level of social support available and trends in general health status, mental and physical disability and long term survival of older people. Information about dementia is particularly important in the planning of health and social services because of the devastating impact it can have on the individual and their families due to an individual?s increased physical, psychological, emotional and social dependency on others. The proposed study will enhance the quality of data upon which planning decisions are made and of our understanding of trend in health and ill health within different social and geographical groups, particularly in the presence of increased life expectancy. The applicants will wish to engage directly with policy makers in different forums and with service consumers and their representatives or advocates to ensure that the scientific interpretation of the data is widely understood by the public. We will do this through discussion with groups of stakeholders and consumers and through involvement and other stakeholders in the management of the study.