UCL-led ELSA study has been awarded $12.88 million from the The National Institute on Aging (NIA). The study is led by Prof AndrewSteptoe and Prof Paola Zaninotto (UCL IEHC), in collaboration with Institute for Fiscal Studies The University of Manchester UEA & NatCen Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/3Kno24F

🚨 A new paper on #obesity, psych #wellbeing, and #NCDs using comparable longitudinal studies from the UK English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the US Health and Retirement Study has now been published in International J Obesity - doi.org/10.1038/s41366…. Findings were presented at CLOSER’s webinar youtu.be/TJS5YmcRIkM?si…

ICYMI: Catch up on AndrewSteptoe on #AllInTheMind, discussing the pandemic's impact on older adults' anxiety. 🎧👉 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #MentalHealth #Ageing #COVID19

Exciting opportunity to join the ELSA team to work on a project focussing on the effects of environmental exposures on cognitive functioning, dementia, and healthy ageing. Apply now! elsa-project.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Socially connected older people hit harder by pandemic than isolated peers | UCL News - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jun/…

Pandemic lockdowns hit socially connected older people harder than their more isolated peers, according to a new study led by Claryn Kung Claryn Kung and Professor Andrew Steptoe AndrewSteptoe Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL Population Health Sciences English Longitudinal Study of Ageing ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jun/…

Depressive symptoms are linked to faster memory decline in older adults, finds a study led by Dr Dorina Cadar Behavioural Science & Health UCL BSMS and PhD student Jiamin Yin Jiamin Yin (Jamie) University of Rochester showing a two-way relationship between depression and memory decline ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jun/…

Scientists have identified a vicious cycle between memory loss and depression in older adults that can lead to dementia ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

Great session at the #nkg2024 by the IDEAR Network amazing results on the determinants of working life expectancy from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Brian Beach Martin Hyde Hugo Westerlund Sari Stenholm

📢📢 Excited to share our latest study on the effect of heavy smoking on retirement risk 🚬🏠 with Dr Ruth Hackett Dr Olesya Ajnakina 🇺🇦 🕊 🇷🇺 and Eugenio Zucchelli. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… . See thread below👇

New podcast series! ✨ In episode 3, we hear from Jinkook Lee and Bernadette McGuinness about the future of ageing research 🧪What does the future of ageing research look like? Listen now on our website, Spotify & Apple ↙️ bit.ly/3XzhUOC

Happy to share our paper examining associations between healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline using data from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and SHARE_MEA was published in Nature Communications yesterday. Behavioural Science & Health UCL nature.com/articles/s4146…

Smoking may be among the most important lifestyle factors affecting how quickly our cognitive skills decline as we age, suggests a new study led by Dr Mikaela Bloomberg Mikaela Bloomberg Behavioural Science & Health UCL English Longitudinal Study of Ageing UCL Population Health Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jul/…

New Study🔔A longitudinal study using data from the Health and Retirement Study and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing data and found that becoming a caregiving grandparent does not necessarily contribute to higher meaning in life than before or compared to non-grandparents. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

Check out our new preprint on the genetic architecture of #frailty! In this work we apply Genomic SEM to 30 frailty deficits to perform the first GWAS of the latent genetic profile of frailty, which uncovers 408 genomic risk loci! 1/8 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

This new Homes England research uses longitudinal population study data from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Understanding Society to investigate measuring the wellbeing and fiscal impacts of housing for older people ⬇️

A recent study using #ELSA_HCAP and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing data identified moderate benefits to using the HCAP data to inform the construction of #cognitive measures in the broader ELSA study. Read Alzheimer's Association here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

The pet-brain effect: How cats and dogs can save you from cognitive decline sciencefocus.com/the-human-body…

Happy to share our paper on trajectories of informal caregiving among older adults using English Longitudinal Study of Ageing UCL IEHC published Springer Nature link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📅 Save the Date! The TILDA Data Workshop is happening on 26th September 2024, 9.30am - 4.30pm at Trinity Central, Dublin 2. Don’t miss this opportunity to work in-person with our experts! 🧑‍💻 #TILDA #DataWorkshop Register here: tilda.tcd.ie/data-workshop/