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Pathways into residential care: service use, help and health prior to admission
- Author:
- BURHOLT Vanessa
- Journal article citation:
- Health Care in Later Life, 3(1), 1998, pp.15-33.
This article concerns participants in the Bangor Longitudinal Study of Ageing who, between 1979 and 1995, moved into residential care. It compares their need for help with activities of daily living, help with household tasks, and formal service visits to their home to that of people aged over 83 years who were living in the community in 1995. Scores for each person were calculated for use of services, difficulty with activities for daily living, and help with households tasks, but they did not reveal any significant differences between the two groups. The data showed that those in residential care considered their self-rated health to be poorer than those in the community, although they were not more likely to be housebound or have medical conditions that limited their activities.
Differences over time in older people’s relationships with children grandchildren nieces and nephews in rural North Wales
- Authors:
- WENGER Claire G., BURHOLT Vanessa
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 21(5), September 2001, pp.567-590.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Based on data from the Bangor Longitudinal Study of Ageing (BLSA) 1979–1999, this article examines changes over time in the intergenerational relationships of older people. The analysis uses quantitative and qualitative data to discuss changes from 1979–1999 for those respondents who survived in the community to 1999. It looks at mothers’ and fathers’ relationships with their adult children, grandmother and grandfather relationships with grandchildren and relationships between aunts and uncles with nieces and nephews. It identifies four different patterns of intergenerational relationships showing how the rural employment structure impacts on family structure, migration and support patterns.