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Religion, Spirituality, and Well-Being: An Underexplored Aspect of Growing Older in the United Kingdom?

There is a rich literature from The United States looking at the importance of religion and spirituality in the lives of older adults where it is positively linked with wellbeing. Despite the increased interest in wellbeing in the UK comparatively little interest has been show in the role of religio...

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Autores principales: Victor, Christina, Lamont, Ruth, Rippon, Isla, Clare, Linda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743299/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2358
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description There is a rich literature from The United States looking at the importance of religion and spirituality in the lives of older adults where it is positively linked with wellbeing. Despite the increased interest in wellbeing in the UK comparatively little interest has been show in the role of religion and spirituality in promoting wellbeing including quality of life, life satisfaction and loneliness. In this paper we explore these issues using three data sets: the European Social Survey (ESS), the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the IDEAL cohort of people with dementia and their carers to examine (a) the variation in religious practice by older adults, those aged 50+, across Europe; (b) the epidemiology of religious practice among older adults within England and (c) using both ELSA and IDEAL consider the relationship between religion and wellbeing in later life.
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spelling pubmed-77432992020-12-21 Religion, Spirituality, and Well-Being: An Underexplored Aspect of Growing Older in the United Kingdom? Victor, Christina Lamont, Ruth Rippon, Isla Clare, Linda Innov Aging Abstracts There is a rich literature from The United States looking at the importance of religion and spirituality in the lives of older adults where it is positively linked with wellbeing. Despite the increased interest in wellbeing in the UK comparatively little interest has been show in the role of religion and spirituality in promoting wellbeing including quality of life, life satisfaction and loneliness. In this paper we explore these issues using three data sets: the European Social Survey (ESS), the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the IDEAL cohort of people with dementia and their carers to examine (a) the variation in religious practice by older adults, those aged 50+, across Europe; (b) the epidemiology of religious practice among older adults within England and (c) using both ELSA and IDEAL consider the relationship between religion and wellbeing in later life. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743299/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2358 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Religion, Spirituality, and Well-Being: An Underexplored Aspect of Growing Older in the United Kingdom?
title_short Religion, Spirituality, and Well-Being: An Underexplored Aspect of Growing Older in the United Kingdom?
title_sort religion, spirituality, and well-being: an underexplored aspect of growing older in the united kingdom?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743299/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2358
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