Grandparenting and Family Life

Questions on Grandparenting and Family Life were asked in 2004.
Questions were also asked of 16 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 2006.

ARK Resources

• 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
• 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 on Attitudes to Older People, as well as survey responses in the Republic of Ireland

Links

• The Grandparents plus website includes an information centre with statistics, research and a look at grandparents in other countries
• The Grandparents Association is the first UK charity to be devoted to grandparents (founded in 1984).
• Grandparenthood in Modern Ireland is a research report produced by the Department of Family and Social Affairs (Republic of Ireland) in 2005.

Maintained by Paula Devine