Mortality of the ‘Golden Generation’: What can the ONS Longitudinal Study tell us?

Goldring, Shayla; Henretty, Nigel; Mills, Julie E.; Johnson, Kate; Smallwood, Steve

doi:10.1057/pt.2011.24

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“…This increase in percentage is due to people living longer and not increases in fertility or improvements in child care (p. 3). Similar growth patterns have also been observed in Great Britain (Goldring, Henretty, Mills, Johnson, & Smallwood, 2011) and Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2017). As people are living well past the age of 65, emotional health becomes critically important for individuals in the later years of life (Charles & Carstensen, 2010).…”

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The phenomenon of adults relearning instrumental music in an American wind band

Helton

2019

International Journal of Music Education

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As the world’s population continues to grow older, retired individuals seek out musical experiences. Many of these musicians are returning to playing in a wind band for the first time in decades, so they are, in essence, beginners again. The learning experiences of adults of returning to band contains both physical and social barriers but returning beginners are often able to overcome individual difficulties to find meaning and enjoyment in an activity they gave up many years ago. Twelve returning beginners from a New Horizons Band were interviewed and their experiences were analyzed through hermeneutic phenomenology to explore relearning an instrument through participation in an American wind band. Five themes emerged through the analysis: return of ability, awareness of physical change, consciousness of ability, continual progress, and ensemble concerns. These themes consisted of both individual and social components within the essence of returning to instrumental music through an American wind band. The essence of returning to band can help community ensemble directors derive pedagogical strategies and consider specific factors that could contribute to the adult music learning process.

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The phenomenon of adults relearning instrumental music in an American wind band

Helton

2019

International Journal of Music Education

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“…Yet those now aged 85 years, the so-called ‘golden generation’ have been one of the most intensely studied from this point of view as they have shown especially high rates of health improvement throughout life. 22 Thus, the current decline is especially surprising. Finally, we were unable to examine social care spending on pensioners specifically, which could have biased our estimate of the impact of social care cuts downward.…”

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Austerity and old-age mortality in England: a longitudinal cross-local area analysis, 2007–2013

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ObjectiveThere has been significant concern that austerity measures have negatively impacted health in the UK. We examined whether budgetary reductions in Pension Credit and social care have been associated with recent rises in mortality rates among pensioners aged 85 years and over.DesignCross-local authority longitudinal study.SettingThree hundred and twenty-four lower tier local authorities in England.Main outcome measureAnnual percentage changes in mortality rates among pensioners aged 85 years or over.ResultsBetween 2007 and 2013, each 1% decline in Pension Credit spending (support for low income pensioners) per beneficiary was associated with an increase in 0.68% in old-age mortality (95% CI: 0.41 to 0.95). Each reduction in the number of beneficiaries per 1000 pensioners was associated with an increase in 0.20% (95% CI: 0.15 to 0.24). Each 1% decline in social care spending was associated with a significant rise in old-age mortality (0.08%, 95% CI: 0.0006–0.12) but not after adjusting for Pension Credit spending. Similar patterns were seen in both men and women. Weaker associations observed for those aged 75 to 84 years, and none among those 65 to 74 years. Categories of service expenditure not expected to affect old-age mortality, such as transportation, showed no association.ConclusionsRising mortality rates among pensioners aged 85 years and over were linked to reductions in spending on income support for poor pensioners and social care. Findings suggest austerity measures in England have affected vulnerable old-age adults.

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“…Analyses of demographic and epidemiological data focused on England and Wales, and the UK overall, have identified cohorts born between around 1925 and 1945 as having experienced greater mortality rate improvements than earlier or later cohorts. 27 28 …”

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Visualising and quantifying ‘excess deaths’ in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe

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Shaw

Green

et al. 2017

J Epidemiol Community Health

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BackgroundScotland has higher mortality rates than the rest of Western Europe (rWE), with more cardiovascular disease and cancer among older adults; and alcohol-related and drug-related deaths, suicide and violence among younger adults.MethodsWe obtained sex, age-specific and year-specific all-cause mortality rates for Scotland and other populations, and explored differences in mortality both visually and numerically.ResultsScotland's age-specific mortality was higher than the rest of the UK (rUK) since 1950, and has increased. Between the 1950s and 2000s, ‘excess deaths’ by age 80 per 100 000 population associated with living in Scotland grew from 4341 to 7203 compared with rUK, and from 4132 to 8828 compared with rWE. UK-wide mortality risk compared with rWE also increased, from 240 ‘excess deaths’ in the 1950s to 2320 in the 2000s. Cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s throughout the UK including Scotland had lower mortality risk than comparable rWE populations, especially for males. Mortality rates were higher in Scotland than rUK and rWE among younger adults from the 1990s onwards suggesting an age–period interaction.ConclusionsWorsening mortality among young adults in the past 30 years reversed a relative advantage evident for those born between 1950 and 1960. Compared with rWE, Scotland and rUK have followed similar trends but Scotland has started from a worse position and had worse working age–period effects in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Mortality of the ‘Golden Generation’: What can the ONS Longitudinal Study tell us?

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

The phenomenon of adults relearning instrumental music in an American wind band

The phenomenon of adults relearning instrumental music in an American wind band

Austerity and old-age mortality in England: a longitudinal cross-local area analysis, 2007–2013

Visualising and quantifying ‘excess deaths’ in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe

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