Loughborough University
Browse
older-people-resourcesFULL.pdf (944.03 kB)

Managing resources in later life: older people's experience of change and continuity

Download (944.03 kB)
report
posted on 2015-04-09, 14:11 authored by Katherine HillKatherine Hill, Liz Sutton, Lynne Cox
This report explores the changing lives of older people and shows how resources are used to manage change and maintain stability. An ageing population continues to be of policy concern, in relation to meeting the needs of older people now, and for future welfare provision. This research explores how older people plan, use and value the different resources available to them. Resources are broadly defined, to explore the relative value of different structural, social and individual resources and how they interlink. This holistic overview highlights the complexity of older people’s lives, the variety of resources that people draw on to help manage change and the work involved in maintaining continuity and preventing change. In-depth interviews with people (aged 65–84 at the first interview) were conducted two years apart to explore their changing needs and resources as they move through later life.

Funding

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Research Unit

  • Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)

Pages

. 1 - 71

Citation

HILL, K., SUTTON, L. and COX, L., 2009. Managing resources in later life: older people's experience of change and continuity. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 71pp.

Publisher

© Centre for Research in Social Policy 2009. First published 2009 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2009

ISBN

978-1-85935-696-8

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Keywords

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC