Health and social exclusion in older age: evidence from Understanding Society, the UK household longitudinal study

Background

Social exclusion of the elderly is a key policy focus but evidence on the processes linking health and social exclusion is hampered by the variety of ways that health is used in social exclusion research. We investigated longitudinal associations between health and social exclusion using an analytical framework that did not conflate them.

Methods

Data employed in this study came from 4 waves of Understanding Society,...