WELL-BEING IN LATER LIFE (WILL) INDEX: CAPTURING INEQUALITIES IN AGEING EXPERIENCES OF OLDER PERSONS

摘要

Age UK wants older people in the UK to experience maximum possible wellbeing. However, not everybody does. The older population in the UK is heterogeneous and no less so in its inequalities in wellbeing. Age UK has built a statistical, multidimensional index of wellbeing which reveals what is important to older people in later life and importantly which groups of older people are doing well and those that are not doing so well. Benefiting from large-scale, representative household panel data in the form of Understanding Society, and using a combination of statistical techniques including factor analysis, structural equation modelling and principal component analysis, this is an index that has utility for influencers, policy-makers and practitioners working with older people.