Health and social exclusion in older age: evidence from Understanding Society, the UK household longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social exclusion of the elderly is a key policy focus but evidence on the processes linking health and social exclusion is hampered by the variety of ways that health is used in social exclusion research. We investigated longitudinal associations between health and social exclusion using an analytical framework that did not conflate them.

Methods

Data employed in this study came from 4 waves of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study 2009-2013. The sample comprised all adults who took part in all 4 waves, were 65 years or more in Wave 3, and had complete data on our variables of interest for each analysis. We used linear regression to model the relationship between Wave 2/3 social exclusion and Wave1-2 health transitions (N=4312) and logistic re

SUBMITTER: Sacker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5485754 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature