Module: Attitudes to Older People

Questions on Attitudes to Older People were asked within the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2003 and 2008.
These questions were also asked in the Republic of Ireland in 2003 and 2008.
Questions on Grandparenting and Family Life were asked within the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2004.
Questions on Pensions and Pensioners were asked within the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 1999.

 

ARK Resources

• Attitudes to age and ageing in the north of Ireland by Ann Marie Gray and Lizanne Dowds: this full report is based on Attitudes to Older People module in 2003 and 2008.
• Attitudes to age and ageing in the south of Ireland by Ann Marie Gray and Lizanne Dowds: this full report is based on survey data from 2003 and 2008 from the Republic of Ireland.
• All our futures: attitudes to age and ageing in Ireland by Ann Marie Gray and Lizanne Dowds (Research Update 68) by Ann Marie Gray and Lizanne Dowds is based on 2008 survey data from the Republic of Ireland.
• All our futures: attitudes to age and ageing in Northern Ireland (Research Update 61) by Ann Marie Gray, is based on data from the 2008 Attitudes to Older People module.
• Raising Grandparents (Research Update 39) by Eileen Evason, Katrina Lloyd and Lizanne Dowds is based on data from the 2004 Grandparenting and Family Life module.
• Ageing Well? (Research Update 31) by Eileen Evason is based on data from the 2003 Attitudes to Older People module.
• The Older People in Northern Ireland project has produced a series of 5 reports focusing on different aspects of older people in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
• Ageism in Ireland (Occasional Paper 3) uses data from the 2003 NILT module, as well as survey responses in the Republic of Ireland
• ARK has developed a pilot archive of in-depth interviews with older people looking at attitudes to ageing and ageism.

Links

• Age Concern Northern Ireland and Help the Aged in Northern Ireland have joined together to create Age UK, which includes a section for Northern Ireland (AgeNI).
  
• The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister is responsible for the development of policy on age discrimination and for providing appropriate legislation.
• An Older Person's Advocate in Northern Ireland took up post in December 2008.
• Wise Owls is an organisation dedicated to championing the rights of people between 45-65. Its activities focus on combating ageism, employment advice, business support, research and training.
• The mission of the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) is 'to advocate for and advance the ageing research agenda by identifying, coordinating, stimulating, and communicating strategic research on ageing and older people as a means to improve the lives of older people in Ireland (North and South) especially those who are disadvantaged'. One recent publication is Illustrating Ageing in Ireland North & South, compiled by Paul McGill, which provides statistical information on ageing across the island of Ireland.
• The goal of the Changing Ageing Partnership is to empower older people to transform how they are viewed by sections within our society.

Maintained by Paula Devine