Loneliness is bad for health and wealth in the UK
Media - September 4, 2025
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No more midlife crisis? Young people now report the most distress
Media - August 30, 2025
Measuring resilience to chronic pain in population surveys using hair cortisol
Journal Article - August 15, 2025
Access to transport, life satisfaction and the mental wellbeing of rural older people in England under austerity
Journal Article - July 1, 2025
Work and health: international comparisons with the UK. A report for the Commission for Healthier Working Lives
Report - January 15, 2025
Caring for two generations: study highlights mental health struggles of sandwich carers
Media - January 9, 2025
Do mental and physical health trajectories change around transitions into sandwich care? Results from the UK household longitudinal study
Journal Article - January 8, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests
Media - January 7, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests
Media - January 7, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ experience decline in mental and physical health
Media - January 7, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests
Media - January 7, 2025
Study shows ‘sandwich carers’ experience decline in mental and physical health
Media - January 6, 2025
Global COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among elderly: a systematic review
Journal Article - December 15, 2024
Living apart together and older adults’ mental health in the United Kingdom
Journal Article - December 3, 2024
‘Living apart, together’ brings wellbeing benefits to couples over 60
Media - December 3, 2024
Over-60s who live apart from partners have better wellbeing, study finds
Media - December 3, 2024
Over-60s who live apart from partners have better wellbeing, study finds
Media - December 3, 2024
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?
Journal Article - November 29, 2024
Effects of employees living with an ‘arthritis’ on sickness absence and transitions out of employment: a comparative observational study in the UK
Journal Article - November 29, 2024
Development of a frailty index using Understanding Society
Report, Understanding Society Technical Reports - November 15, 2024
Sandwich care in the UK: how common is it and who is doing it?
Journal Article - October 22, 2024
Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people’s walking: analysis of an UK household panel study (Understanding Society)
Journal Article - October 15, 2024
Unpaid caring and heath-related quality of life: longitudinal analysis of Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Survey)
Journal Article - September 27, 2024
Supporting healthy lifestyles among young adults in the workplace
Report - September 15, 2024
Lonely nation. Part 2: ending loneliness among older people
Are protected characteristics associated with mental health care inequalities in the adult UK general population? a cross-sectional study
Journal Article - August 6, 2024
The effect of retirement eligibility on mental health in the United Kingdom: heterogeneous effects by occupation
Journal Article - August 1, 2024
Exploring the retrospective and prospective associations between the big five personality traits and clinical diagnosis of angina in middle-aged and older adults
Journal Article - July 15, 2024
What pushes unpaid carers into poverty?
Report - July 12, 2024
Projections of housing tenure and poverty in older age in Great Britain, 2022-2040
Report - June 15, 2024
Lonely nation. Part 1: how family can help to end the loneliness crisis
Changing care provision in times of changing contexts: the experience of adult children during the pandemic in the UK
Journal Article - May 2, 2024