Diversity in Late Life


Diversity in Late Life is a research program conducted at the Department of Sociology & Social Gerontology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), funded by the Social Science Research Council (MaGW) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (grant 410-12-016P).

Principal investigators
Theo van Tilburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Socio-Cultural Sciences (SCW), Department of Sociology & Social Gerontology (TG.van.Tilburg@fsw.vu.nl)
Pearl A. Dykstra, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague (Dykstra@nidi.nl)
 
Program: Diversity in late life file, 62 Kb
     
Project 1: Retirement from the labor force: Antecedents and consequences for health, personal relationships and wellbeing file, 25 Kb
     
Project 2: Exchanges of support and care in late life partner relationships: Antecedents and consequences for personal relationships, health and wellbeing file, 24 Kb
     
Project 3: Social embeddedness before and after a residential relocation of older adults living independently file, 25 Kb
     
Project 4: Moving into a residential care facility: Antecedents and consequences for health, personal relationships and wellbeing file, 25 Kb
     
Project 5: Patterns of life-course transitions and their late-life outcomes file, 25 Kb
     
Appendix 1 Selected literature by the research group file, 38 Kb
Appendix 2  References for the data sources and the techniques of analysis file, 22 Kb
Appendix 3 Other references file, 51 Kb

Related to the DLL-program is the project on "Conjoint developments in personal networks and loneliness after widowhood"
- projectbeschrijving [ file, 112 Kb].

The research program will make use of a panel data set derived from two research programs, Living arrangements and Social Networks of older adults (LSN; Publications) and the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA; Publications).

Voor het lezen en printen van de bestanden is Acrobat Reader 4 nodig: . Appendix 3 (dll_refs3.pdf) is wel te lezen, maar niet te printen.

Updated: 07-12-2001