Welsh aging study

A clinical psychologist at Bangor University is to lead a major new longitudinal five-year study of ageing. Professor Bob Woods and his collaborators will be studying five thousand people aged over 65 who are resident in Anglesey and South Gwynedd, Neath and Port Talbot. The aim of the £3.3 million project, funded by the ESRC and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, is to look at the social and psychological factors associated with ageing and how people cope. 'An important aspect of the project is the ability to compare the results with those of the survey conducted in the mid 1990s to see how older people's networks of social relationships have changed in the face of the major changes in families and society over this time period,' Woods said.

- See http://cfaswales.bangor.ac.uk
The study has close links with partner projects in England, see www.cfas.ac.uk