GO Findings
Growing Older
The ESRC Research Programme on Extending Quality of Life

 

 

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Findings
Number
Project Leader
Project Title

  Elizabeth Breeze   Inequalities in Quality of Life Among People Aged 75 and Over Living in the Community
         
  Chris McKevitt   Comparing Professional and Patient Perspectives on Quality of Life
       
 
Peter Coleman
   Spiritual Beliefs and Existential Meaning in Later Life: The Experience of Older Bereaved Spouses
       
 
John Baldock
   Housebound and Older People: The Links Between Identity, Self-esteem and the Use of Care Services
       
 
Maria Evandrou
   Family, Work and Quality of Life: Changing Economic and Social Roles
 
Kate Bennett
  Older Widow(er)s: Bereavement and Gender Effects on Lifestyle and Participation
       
 
Ann Bowling
   Adding Quality to Quantity: Older People's Views on their Quality of Life and its Enhancement


 
Kevin McKee
   Evaluating the Impact of Reminiscence on Quality of Llife of Older People
       
 
David Blane
   Influences on Quality of Life in Early Old Age
       
 
Mary Maynard
   Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment in Later Life
 
James Nazroo
   Ethnic Inequalities in Quality of Life at Older Ages: Subjective and objective components
       
 
Sara Arber
   Older Men: Their Social World and Healthy Lifestyles
 
Alexandra Withnall
   Older People and Lifelong Learning: Choices and Experiences
       
 
Ivan Robertson
   Older People's Experience of Paid Employment: Participation and Quality of Life
       


 
Mary Gilhooly
   Quality of Life and Real Life Cognitive Functioning
 
Mary Gilhooly
   Transport and Ageing: Extending Quality of Life for Older People via Public and Private Transport
       
 
Christina Victor
   Loneliness, Social Isolation and Living Alone in Later Life
       
 
Sheila Peace
   Environment and Identity in Later Life: A Cross-setting Study
 
Thomas Scharf
   Older People in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Social Exclusion and Quality of Life in Old Age
       


 
Graham Beaumont
   Quality of Life of the Healthy Older People: Residential Setting and Social Comparison Processes
         
  Lorna Warren   Older Women's' Lives and Voices: Participation and Policy in Sheffield
         
Lynda Clarke Grandparent: Its meaning and Contgibution to Older People's Lives
Jabeer Butt Quality of Life and Social Sup;ort Among Older People from Different Ethnic Groups


Sue Tester Exploring Perceptions of Qualtiy of Life of Frail Older People During and After the Transition to Institutional Care