Government Social Research
The Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has published ‘The social exclusion of older people: evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing’ which uses 2002-3 data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) - a large-scale survey of people aged 50 and over living in England.
The broad aim of the study was to see whether insights about social exclusion could be drawn from this relatively new data source, in a way that might strengthen existing knowledge about the particular experiences of exclusion among older people. The main objective of this short project was to measure the patterns of different forms of social exclusion among older people and to examine the key risk factors, or indicators, of social exclusion among older people.
> The social exclusion of older people: evidence from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing [PDF 860KB, 113 pages]