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Household and family resources

• Emily Grundy, LSHTM.

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Household and family resources

• Background
• Major changes in the living arrangements of older
  people and large declines in intergenerational
  co-residence.
• Implications for support services needed for
  older people with disabilities, demands for
  housing of various types and household durables
  and consumables.
• Also implications for well-being of older people
• The Madrid Plan of Action adopted at the Second
  World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 called for
  research on the advantages and disadvantages of
  different living arrangements for older people.

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Proportion () of elderly men and women living in
households with two or more generations, England
and Wales, 1971 and 2001(private household
population).
Men
Women
Source Analysis of ONS LS data.
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Household and family resources

• Questions
• What factors influence household patterns of
  older people are how are these likely to change?
• Do family and household resources (numbers of
  close relatives living arrangements) influence
  social participation, health and well-being?
• Overall aim
• To improve our understanding of the determinants
  household type and household transitions (and, in
  other work packages, use this in projections,)
  and improve our understanding of the implications
  of household, family and broader social support
  for well-being and receipt of help.

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Household and family resources

• Data and methods
• 1) Analysis of demographic and other determinants
  of household type and household type transitions
  using the Office for national Statistics
  Longitudinal Study
• 2) Analysis of links between family availability,
  family contacts and contacts with friends and
  overall social participation using data from the
  English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
• All analyses to examine socio-economic
  differentials and associations with indicators of
  health.

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Household and family resources Analyses based
on ONS LS

• 1) Cross sequential analyses of ONS LS to
  illuminate trends and variations in
  intergenerational co-residence and proportions
  moving to live with relatives or to institutional
  care
• 2) More detailed analysis of household
  transitions 1991-2001 in ONS LS.

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The ONS Longitudinal Study of England Wales

• Census data for individuals with one of four
  birthdates enumerated at the 1971 Census (c. 1
  of population)
• Maintained through addition of immigrants and new
  births with LS birth date
• Information from later censuses (1981, 91 2001)
  added
• Linked event data including death of the spouse
  of sample members and deaths of sample members.

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Proportion () of people aged 65 and over who
changed family/household type between censuses
1971-81 1981-91 1991-2001 by age and
family/household type at start of decade
Source Analysis of ONS LS data (earlier decades
from Glaser Grundy 1998)
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Proportion () of people aged 65 and over who
remained at same address in same
family/household type at succeeding censuses
1971-81 1981-91 1991-2001 by age and
family/household type at start of decade
Source Analysis of ONS LS data (earlier decades
from Glaser Grundy 1998)
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of women aged 65 in 1991 in a communal
establishment by 2001 and odds of transition to a
communal establishment by parity.
Odds ratios (95 CI)
changing from private
household in 1991 to communal establishment by
2001
Source Analysis of ONS Longitudinal Study data
controlling for age, marital status, household
type in 1991, health indicators and housing
tenure.
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Results of logistic regression model of
proportions making a transition from a private to
an institutional household 1991-2001
OR 95 CI P
Age 1.14 1.13-1.15
Gender (ref. male) 1.14 1.02-1.27
Marital status in 2001 (ref. married)
Never-married 5.92 4.84-7.24
Wid./div. 3.63 3.10-4.25
Tenure in 1991 (ref. owner)
Not owner 1.24 1.13-1.15
Long term illness in 2001 (ref none) 9.35 7.63-11.46
Long term illness in 1991 (ref none) 1.26 1.14-1.38
Region in 1991 (ref South)
Central 0.93 0.81-1.05 NS
North 1.15 1.03-1.27
Wales 0.94 0.77-1.15 NS
Plt0.05 Plt0.001
Source Analysis of ONS Longitudinal Study data
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Household and family resources English
Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

• Two waves of data in 2002 and 2004 (third wave
  should be available within timescale of project)
• Cross-sectional dataset of population aged 60 in
  Wave One 7146 people
• Longitudinal dataset of population aged 60 in
  Wave One and present at Wave Two 5443 people

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ELSA
This model controlled for gender, age, smoking,
wealth, housing tenure, contact with relatives,
contact with friends, membership of social
organisations and self-rated health status
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ELSA
This model controlled for gender, age, contact
with relatives, contact with friends, membership
of social organisations, health status at wave
one, presence of depression at wave 1
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Household and family resources timescale

• Most primary analysis 2007-8 (12 months of R.A.
  available)
• Interactive input projection models throughout.
• Suggestions appreciated.

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ELSA
This model controlled for gender, age, smoking,
wealth, housing tenure, contact with relatives,
contact with friends, membership of social
organisations and self-rated health status