Module: Ageing and Ageism

Questions on Ageing and Ageism were asked within the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2003, 2008, 2014 and 2017.
Questions on Ageing were asked in the Kids' Life and Times Survey of 10-11 year olds in 2011 and 2014.
These questions were also asked in the Republic of Ireland in 2003 and 2008.
Questions on Dementia were asked within the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2010 and 2014.
Questions on Social Care for Older People were asked within the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2010.
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

• Ageing in Northern Ireland Prisons by Sarah Lawrence is a 2021 Policy Brief.
• LGBTQ+ Ageing in Northern Ireland: understanding the lived experiences and exploring inequalities that exist for ageing LGBTQ+ population in Northern Ireland by Danielle Mackle is a 2021 Policy Brief.
• Caged and Forgotten – older people’s letters to the editor about COVID-19 by Gemma Carney, Stephanie Maguire, Bronagh Byrne and Ann Marie Gray is a 2020 Research Update.
• Are public attitudes towards older people changing? by Paula Devine and Gemma Carney, explores data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Telecare solutions for older people and carers is a 2016 Policy Brief by Alexandra Chapman and Sue Yeandle.
• The ARK Ageing Programme supports engagement between the age and academic sectors.
• What do children think about old age? by Paula Devine and Gemma Carney, is based on data from the 2014 Kids' Life and Times questions on ageing and ageism.
• Is Northern Ireland a good place to grow old? by Eoin Kelly is a video infographic displaying results from the 2014 NILT questions on ageing and ageism.
• Is Northern Ireland a good place to grow old? by Paula Devine and Gemma Carney, is based on data from the 2014 NILT questions on ageing and ageism.
• One-to-one befriending programmes for older people, a discussion paper by Paula Devine, considers the topic in Northern Ireland, and via eight international case studies.
• Attitudes to and knowledge of Dementia in Northern Ireland by Lizanne Dowds, Patricia McParland, Paula Devine and Ann Marie Gray: this report is based on data from the 2010 NILT module on Dementia.
• Attitudes to Social Care for Older People in Northern Ireland by Ann Marie Gray, Lizanne Dowds and Paula Devine: this report is based on data from the 2010 NILT module on Social Care.
• Attitudes to age and ageing in the north of Ireland by Ann Marie Gray and Lizanne Dowds: this full report is based on Ageing and Ageism 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 Ageing and Ageism 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 Ageing and Ageism 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.
• In 2007, ARK undertook a pilot archive of in-depth interviews with older people looking at attitudes to ageing and ageism.
• A Teaching Dataset has been developed based upon the 2008 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, with a focus on attitudes relating to older people. This is an SPSS datafile that has been designed to be used on courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences.
• In 2013, ARK produced a catalogue of key datasets relevant to research on older people's issues.

Links

• AgeNI is a charity focusing on the lives of older people in Northern Ireland.
  
• The remit of the Department for Communities includes Active Ageing, such as the Active Ageing Strategy 2016-22.
• Pensioners' Income Series contains estimates of the level and trends of pensioners' incomes across the UK.
• The office of the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland was established in 2011. The Commissioner is an independent champion for older people, who safeguards and promotes their interests.

Maintained by Paula Devine