New article: 📝The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care Hall, @gerontologyuk.bsky.social Straub & Glover-Thomas How “signposting” can deflect responsibility for financial wellbeing in later life social care. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care

The ability to manage money is crucial for independent living in later life, yet financial capacity often declines with age and cognitive impairment. This study explored how social care practitione...

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Update from ONS on the review of the future design of the Health Survey for England tinyurl.com/4xv45x8c. Latest developments, key findings, and next steps will be discussed at the Health Studies User Conference, 25 June, hybrid. We hope you will join for the discussion. tinyurl.com/3trts9s5.

📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series: 🐶Animals & Social Life 👥 Sibling relationships 👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Family practices ♻️Consumption & everyday life 🦉What is ageing? Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Morgan Centre: Key concepts in creative methods and everyday lives research - YouTube

To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...

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✨ Join us on 26 March for the second in a series of webinars dedicated to data linkage and integration. This free event is co-organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the DIGISURVOR project. 📅 26 March 2026 ⏰ 11:00-12:15 📍 Online 🧷 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/using...

On Trinity Hall admissions: my concern is how it's been done: the judgement and signals sent by focusing more on already advantaged schools when pressure hits, and framing widening participation as charity, rather than central to academic excellence. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/debora...

Over the past week I’ve been closely following the discussion about admissions practices at Trinity Hall. I’ve tried to listen carefully to students, alumni, and colleagues across the sector. My… | De...

Over the past week I’ve been closely following the discussion about admissions practices at Trinity Hall. I’ve tried to listen carefully to students, alumni, and colleagues across the sector. My conce...

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shorturl.at/gjhgz The UK is one of the most unequal advanced countries in the world. It is therefore distressing to report that Trinity Hall Cambridge is to favour admissions from elite private schools. This is a dark day for fairness. #ComprehensiveFuture #CASE #fairness #nosnobbery

No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at ...

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“Compelling... challenges the idea that women are simply 'poor men' in pension systems... shows why pensions must be reimagined to reflect the realities of diverse lives.” @gerontologyuk.bsky.social on 'Pension Saving in a Gendered Lifecourse' by Hayley James 👇 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

There should be a word for that feeling of utter relief when you manage to indeed verify that you are human #modernlife

We couldn't agree more. @gerontologyuk.bsky.social on data preservation & infrastructure: "They are foundational to democracy, social understanding, and the pursuit of knowledge. They form the basis of sound decision-making across policy, economics, industry and society." @ukdataservice.bsky.social

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⏰New on the Data Impact blog⏰ Debora Price (@gerontologyuk.bsky.social) reflects on the importance of data preservation, recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/why-data-pre...

📢New publication from our team: "The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review" bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

⏰New on the Data Impact blog⏰ Debora Price (@gerontologyuk.bsky.social) reflects on the importance of data preservation, recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/why-data-pre...

NHS is stopping the Health Survey for England. ONS user input qu'airre on this open to 25 July. If data from population health surveys are important for your work, it's vital to feed in. Defunding this data collection may be a huge error with so many population health challenges. Blog with links:

UK Data Service Impact@ukdsimpact.bsky.social · last yr.

🚑 New on the Data Impact blog 🚑 Oyinlola Oyebode presents a personal view on the importance of the Health Survey for England and encourages participation in the ONS / DHSC questionnaire on the future of population health surveys. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-popul...

We welcome today's recommendations that the UK gvmt commission 2031 censuses. The census remains a cornerstone of how we understand our society—and it’s great to see UKSA recognising its user's needs on this. Read more in a blog from our CEO 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

UK Census 2031: A win for user engagement

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A really interesting thread on the very tricky issues facing ONS and the national social and economic surveys today

LunchBreakInTheBookies@lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · last yr.

I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.

Topic webinars from Understanding Society - all 14.00-15.00, for new and experienced data users: Income, wealth and housing: 12 March Employment: 19 March Family, households, children: 26 March Sign up on our website - www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/trainin...

Our latest report found over 1 in 5 people in the UK are in poverty. On Friday we are hosting an 'Ask Me Anything' session on Reddit - you can ask our analysts about the stats, the modelling, policy, and the picture of poverty across the UK. 🙋 Join our session: www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

From the ukpolitics community on Reddit: AMA (Ask Me Anything) Thread: Analysts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Friday 7th February, 10:30am - 1:30pm

Explore this post and more from the ukpolitics community

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Am excellent thread on some of the tensions as between our current #census and potential replacement by admin #data. @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Oliver Duke-Williams@oliverdw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great session today as part of #UKStatisticsAssembly2025 on the future of the census, at which I was very pleased to be asked to speak. (cc @drdemography.com who asked for more info) 🧵

Understanding Society Scientific Conference 1-3 July - you've got until 31 Jan to submit an abstract. If you're using household panel data, we'd love to hear about your work! www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

Call for abstracts open - Understanding Society

Present your research at the 2025 Understanding Society Scientific Conference Present your work at the 2025 Understanding Society conference

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Interested in care work and care policies? Then join us for our next seminar @DSPI_Oxford from Jan 23. We have many exciting speakers and will be talking about social care reform, post-growth caring economy, carewashing, disability, AI and more...sign up here 👇 www.spi.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...

Should #housing just be housing and #pensions just pensions? From Simon Grover (who I don't think is on BlueSky?) First principles. quietroom.co.uk/insights/a-p...

A pension is for life, not just for inheritance

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Our new website is now live! 🎉 Explore our latest research, project outputs and find out about our events. Visit us at www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk and let us know what you think! Stay connected with us: X: @NIHRHAPRU (x.com/NIHRHAPRU) YouTube: www.youtube.com/@NIHRHAPRU #HAPRU #Research #NewWebsite #NIHR

📢Please read our new report from our team on the meaning of 'quality' of homecare for older people: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx... - and find out more about our project including a recording of a recent webinar here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/08/23/q...

Homecare quality: exploring and bridging perspectives from key stakeholders

Around 10 million unpaid carers in the UK provide support for friends and family. We know very little about who receives homecare and what support they need.

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A really interesting paper from the excellent Dr. Giorgio Di Gessa at UCL on trajectories of loneliness in later life using 20 years of longitudinal data from ELSA: health and quality of relationships are key pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @ukdataservice.bsky.social

TRAJECTORIES OF LONELINESS IN LATER LIFE: EVIDENCE FROM A 10-YEAR ENGLISH PANEL STUDY

Loneliness is generally defined as the discrepancy between individuals’ desired and actual social interactions and emotional support. Although the prevalence of loneliness is high among older people a...

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Can our brains compensate for age related cognitive decline? Interesting study from Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Strongest evidence to date of brain’s ability to compensate for age-related cognitive decline

Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that our brains can compensate for age-related deterioration by recruiting other areas to help with brain

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Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

UoM are recruiting a Research Associate (10.5 months maternity cover, full time) to work on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) in Manchester. More details about the job and how to apply can be found here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate – English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA):Oxford Road

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Decided to put my thoughts down on the pensions review part 2 delay on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

David Brooks on LinkedIn: Pension adequacy delay is not a time to despair.

We may not have a pensions review part 2 - but is this really a reason for such despair?

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We've been blue-sky policy thinking about long lives for over 25 years. But we're new here - and interested in finding friends and learning from challengers.

It’s great to see the ‘Special Interest Groups of British Society of #Gerontology start to appear on #Bluesky @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social @bsgcreativeageing.bsky.social - post a reply if I’ve missed others?! @gerontologyuk.bsky.social

Absolutely superb (long; live) thread on the very complex debate today in the Commons, and the respect it was rightly given.

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.