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In Episode 5 of the ELSA Podcast, Catherine Foot, Director of Evidence at the Centre for Ageing Better, discusses how the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) helps the charitable foundation create change in policy and practice to improve employment, housing, health and communities. She discusses the Foundation's State of Ageing in 2019 report, which uses publicly available data including ELSA to give a snapshot of what life is like for people aged 65 and older today and explains why the study is crucial to the foundation's efforts "to add life to our years". Read/Download a full transcript
In Episode 8 of the ELSA Podcast we discuss what the study tells us about the benefits of volunteering with James Nazroo from the University of Manchester, John Hannen from Ambition for Ageing and Oldham-based volunteer Pauline Coltman. Read/Download a full transcript
Published 11/25/20
In Episode 7 of the ELSA Podcast, UCL researcher Dorina Cadar and Hannah Churchill from the Alzheimers Society talk about how a specially-designed sub-study of ELSA is helping us better understand dementia. Useful links The Healthy Cognitive Ageing Project (ELSA-HCAP) World Alzheimers Month ...
Published 09/20/20