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A podcast exploring how the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing is used in research, practice and policy to help us to better understand what happens to us as we age and how we can live longer, happier, healthier lives.

Volunteering: good for others and good for you 11/25/2020

Volunteering: good for others and good for you 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. /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/16950785

Dementia - who's at risk and why? 09/20/2020

Dementia - who's at risk and why? 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 /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/16079522

Pension freedoms: how is it working? 03/30/2020

Pension freedoms: how is it working? In Episode 6 of the ELSA Podcast, DWP Deputy Director for Pensions & Later Life Analysis Laura Webster and Rowena Crawford, Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, talk about Pension Freedoms. Laura explains how and why the policy was introduced, how it works and why the English Longitudinal Study is so important in helping the DWP understand people's pension behaviours. Rowena Crawford talks about what we know already from ELSA about how people are responding to the changes and some of the challenges and concerns around it. Useful links \ /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/13759127

Adding life to our years: The Centre for Ageing Better and ELSA 02/10/2020

Adding life to our years: The Centre for Ageing Better and ELSA 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 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". /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/13088210

Social prescribing: how can ELSA help to investigate its potential benefits? 01/07/2020

Social prescribing: how can ELSA help to investigate its potential benefits? Dr Daisy Fancourt talks about her research looking at the benefits of social prescribing and what ELSA tells us about how it might help older people live healthily and happily. She explains how data from ELSA has been key in exploring the links between social factors and health. /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/12645875

Getting to grips with ageing: evidence for policy 01/06/2020

Getting to grips with ageing: evidence for policy Dr Elizabeth Webb shares her experiences of using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to influence policy as an academic researcher and more recently working for AGE UK /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/12630449

ELSA and her sisters: an international family of studies on ageing 12/09/2019

ELSA and her sisters: an international family of studies on ageing In Episode 2 of the ELSA Podcast, , one of the architects of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and its 40 sister studies around the world talks about ELSA's US counterpart and big sister, the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and why having an international family of ageing studies is helping us get to grip with what happens as we get older. We also hear from , the academic behind the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA), which is working to make Ireland the best place in the world to grow old. /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/12330497

Coming of age: reflections on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 11/26/2019

Coming of age: reflections on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Professor Andrew Steptoe reflect on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - how it started, what it does and how it is helping us understand what happens as we get older /episode/index/show/elsa-podcast/id/12182945

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