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Old Age and Ageing research group

As old ages and aging, the research on this topic conducted at Ined are numerous and varied: by their research questions, the methodology, the geographic scope. A census of the works on old ages and aging highlighted that half of the projects at Ined were concerned. Five axes deal with the major challenges raised by the demgraphic aging: Health and healthy ...

Symposia

Carole Bonnet, Bertrand Garbinti, Anne Solaz Does part-time mothering help get a job ? : the role of shared custody in women's employment London : The London school of economics and political science, Suntory and Toyota international centres for economics and related disciplines, 2018. - (Case paper ; 209) (38 p.)Consulter le document en ligneVéronique Hertrich, Aurélien Dasré, Amandine ...

Survey

Since it was first founded in 1945, INED has played a pioneering role in developing household surveys as an instrument of sociological and demographic knowledge. For this purpose, INED has built up a specialized surveys department which oversees data collection for projects conducted by INED researchers and, increasingly, in partnership with other institutions (INSEE, INSERM, InVS, etc.). Among the most recent or on-going surveys, several deal with ageing ...

Measuring health and dependency

The health of the population is measured through surveys of a representative sample of the population who are asked about their health. These self-administered surveys provide a picture of people’s own perception of their health, through various questions about how they feel in general and any diseases, disabilities or incapacity they have.

Disability-free life expectancies

Disability-free life expectancy is measured by a combination of mortality and disability indicators in order to take account of the "quality" of the years of life. Indicators of healthy life expectancy combine mortality and health data. They indicate the average number of years of life spent in good health and in poor health within total life expectancy, given the mortality and health conditions of the moment. ...

The process of losing autonomy

G Bellis, N Brouard, MH Cazes, E Cambois, F Meslé, A Parant, JM Robine As well as anticipating care needs for dependent people, it is important to analyse the mechanisms that lead to dependency and to identify the determinants that cause some people to require assistance while others are able to maintain a satisfactory level of activity. Within this framework, our research seeks to break down the process ...

Methodological work

N Brouard, E Cambois, A Désesquelles, JM Robine In addition to their work on health, incapacity and disability, INED’s researchers contribute to methodological work and participate in the production of data. They look at what the indicators used in the surveys actually measure, as well as their limitations and biases. They also develop techniques for analysing the data collected.

The trend in life expectancy

France Meslé et Jacques Vallin The increase in life expectancy prompts us to investigate the mechanisms underlying the decrease in mortality, especially at the most advanced ages. In the 1960s, trends in life expectancy at birth began to diverge strongly between industrial countries. The mechanisms of those divergences can only be understood through a close analysis of the trends in age- and cause-specific mortality. Precise knowledge of changing ...

Mortality at very old ages

Nicolas Brouard, France Meslé, Jean-Marie Robine, Jacques Vallin For several decades now, the increase in life expectancy has resulted mainly from a decline in mortality at old ages. Individuals now die only rarely from infectious diseases that were previously highly lethal, especially at young ages. Today deaths are increasingly concentrated at the highest ages (currently around 80) and future life expectancy gains now depend almost exclusively on pushing ...