Figure How often do you feel isolated from others? By long-term illness or condition.
Figure How often do you feel isolated from others? By long-term illness or condition.
Reference: Wave 9 Understanding Society
From April 2020 participants romania rcs data from the main Understanding Society sample have been asked to complete a short web-survey that will cover the changing impact of the pandemic.
Social survey and census data are currently being used by a range of researchers, think tanks and policy analysts to draw attention to the changed lives, and in some cases inequalities, being experienced as a result of COVID-19. Here are a few examples we’ve found.
National Voices
In a blog for National Voices (a coalition of charities advocating for person-centred care) Morgan Vine discusses putting older people in focus during COVID-19.
The article draws on a recent report that explored the experiences of older age in England and used data from Understanding Society. The blog discusses the complexity and heterogeneity of older age.